It’s a very long story to tell, if you have time only start reading now because it might take a few minutes reading the whole story.
CAT is Computer Assistance Team, a network of talented students in the college of computers and systems engineering - Mansoura University started to form a family under the name “CAT” to provide intensive information and to open up students’ eyes to the computers world earlier on 1996. At ths time computer knowledge merely existed and a few people who could really say that they have ever used a computer. The team contained many people whom I don’t know all of them but I hear names and I met a few of them. People like “Hesham ElSawi”, “Ashraf ElRefaey”, “Mohammed Ezzat” and etc.

That family achieved alot and they launched 2 conferences under the name “CAT Scope” and that was from 1996 to 1999, then things died and no one had more power to revive that dream.

After a few years, some students in the same college had the same dream once and they started to communicate with Eng.Mahy (Research Engineer in Communications Department). She was contacted by “Abdel Rahman Zaa’za” who was very ambitious and excited to create a team excellent in IT (Information Technology) and they started to contact Hesham ElSawi again and they’ve held many meetings to organize how things are going to work.

At this time I was working as a part-time instructor at Origin-IBM (Authorized IBM Training Center) which was managed and partially owned by Hesham ElSawi. And then he told me that he wants me to help them and join the team. Firstly they started with the name “Smart” and that was the suggested name, then hesham proposed “CAT” to be named after the old CAT family as a continuation to the idea, then finally we decided that it’ll be “CAT Reloaded” - I think it was Ahmed Abdalla’s suggestion as he is a fan of “The Matrix” series”-

At this time I was superior to the team, I had such a great computer history and had achieved many success stories while I was near to their age. I was afraid because I had such bad days meeting people who had hated me for being better or smarter rather than trying to compete me. But luckily things went perfect and they guys respected me very much and I started to help arranging everything. The first event for this IT addicted family was to arrange for CAT Scope 3 and try to face the college routine to achieve this goal.

I started to know everybody more “BinGo, Psycho, Biko, Ahmed Abdalla, Hassanien, Ahmed Nassar, Samer and etc.”, some of them I knew earlier like “Hassanien and Ahmed Nassar” but CAT helped me to know them deeper and deeper.

Generally, we have achieved much and CAT started to take much out of my time and I could barely manage the college/education, work and CAT…starting from here the story I’m telling is beginning…

This is the story you didn’t expect to hear, the impact of CAT to me and how did it affect my career life and my choices.

Let me tell you…in the next post