How everything started?

A year and half ago, the first people out of our members found out about BEST and attended the first event - Motivation Weekend in Zaporizhzhya. Since then, our story has started. We officially got the Observer status in July 2008. Before that was a year of hard times with BEST but not in BEST. That had a positive effect at any way: we didn't despair, as we had to build our team, work harder and push forward to keep our motivation high, and finally it helped to come as BEST group already, but strong as Observer, and having got enough experience to run for Baby in a couple of months.

Even before getting the Observer status we made a good deal of job. Cultural Exchange at the times of "Great Depression", Local Engineering Competition with 45 participants when applying for Observer, co-organizing all the events we could reach, participating at the Regional Meeting in Gliwice, keeping in touch with BEST world and with our Nurse Cluj-Napoca, while getting support and office at the University, and involving the most motivated members who weren't afraid of uncertainty about the future LBG Kiev, difficult to find, as we couldn't promote our group in association with BEST itself. At the same time we elected the Board of our group, consisting of 5 people, and formed 3 departments (FR, PR, HR). Many experienced BEST members, our Regional Adviser, and 2 members of the XX Board visited Kiev, and it also helped us to find out a lot and to organize our activities better. So with about 10 people we became BEST Observer Kiev. When we heard the good news we couldn't even celebrate together at first, as at that moment almost all the members were at different Summer Courses as co-organizers!

Having come back home, we started the next phase of our life. The first step was making BEST Kiev bigger, that we successfully accomplished by recruiting about 15 new people, active and motivated to become BESTies. We had an outstanding Motivation Weekend that integrated our newbies to the team.

During PM Bucharest we accessed to Baby membership and looking forward to achieve more!

Upon the return, we had a sharing event with our Nurses and in early December we organized a 3-day career-related event, including trainings, engineering competition, and company presentations. No we feel strong enough and we are full of plans and motivation to implement them! After everything we have lived through together, we are sure we can manage it!