Mashael Haroon Kareem and Maymoona Abdulrahman Hajjar from First Secondary School in Jeddah and the 17th Intermediate School in Riyadh experienced a captivating moment when the two 15-year-old girls were specially honored and presented with their official finalists certificate in the World Contest signed by Akio Toyoda in front of their friends and schoolmates.
From an initial 2,000 entries in Saudi Arabia, 15 winning artworks were sent to Japan and out of these two entries by Mashael Haroon Kareem and Maymoona Abdulrahman Hajjar were selected for the final stage of the World Contest.
"We wanted to make their participation in the Dream Car Art Contest especially memorable, so we decided to honor them again," said Faisal Mirza, general manager — Toyota Marketing Communications.
The Kingdom is one of the 64 countries participating in the sixth edition of the competition and winners of the Saudi National Contest, which is organized by Abdul Latif Jameel Co. Ltd (ALJ), sole agent of Toyota in Saudi Arabia, will be entitled to be entered in the World Contest. If selected they will have the chance to win a trip to Japan accompanied by their parents.
"A special feature of this year's competition is our Dream Car Booth," Mirza added.
The booth is now touring Jeddah, Riyadh and Alkhobar.
The next chance to visit the booth is in Riyadh on December 21 and 22 before concluding in Jeddah on Dec. 28 and 29.
Three age groups of the Kingdom's younger generation have the chance to express their artistic talent and design their own vehicle of the future in the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest.
The three categories are: children under 10 years; 10-12 years; and 13-15 years. There are prizes for 1st- 5th place in each age group, making a total of 15 prizes
To enter, children are required to draw their dream car of the future on A3-size paper and submit the drawing to the nearest Toyota showroom in the Kingdom.
The contest is now open and the last date for receiving entries is Jan. 31.
