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The session “Women to rise above the pandemic” was organized by the IEEE Women in Engineering affinity group of Sri Lanka Technological Campus was successfully held via zoom on 5th of June 2020. Session duration was planned as an hour. As the organizing team first of all, we planned the session and as the speaker we selected Mrs. Rasini Bandara, experienced visiting lecturer with a demonstrated history of working with us and Canadian Scholar’s. She is skilled in Public Speaking, Personality development coaching, Research, English, Lecturing, Marketing, and Public Relations. Strong education professional with a Master's degree focused in Applied Psychology from Coventry University. The event was started around 5 p.m. and the welcome speech was delivered by Ms. Gawrisha Karuneswaran, vice president of IEEE WIE 2020. The guest speech was delivered by Ms. T.D.K. Upeksha Chathurani, advisor of IEEE WIE affinity group of Sri Lanka Technological Campus. After that the guest speaker speech on “Women to rise above the pandemic” was delivered by the speaker. She explained how the women rise to covid’19 pandemic and the psychological impact of it very impressively in a manner that anybody can understand the big picture behind it. Furthermore, she described how to move our life to a healthy path by bringing hope to fight back the current crisis. More than 35 participants enrolled with the session from many universities and the event was successfully held with the help of SLTC staff members as well. They actively enrolled in the session with the speaker and the speaker also shared her valuable experience. Our major objective of the program was to develop the personality of undergraduate female students in SLTC (Sri Lanka Technological Campus) and induce their motivation of pursuing a successful career. And also, we held the session only around one hour, though it was an online session as well as if it extends more and as well as, the participants might lose the basic concepts behind the lecture. The speaker also tried to keep it as much as short with valuable information to the participants. With this valuable speech we the speaker as well as organizing committee received good appreciations from the participants feedback. So, our first event, the guest speech session was held successfully and we hope to hold another valuable event as soon as possible.