Sharjah: Students from across the UAE will be testing their skills in building robots, conceptualising their future schools and also designing towns, as part of UAE Innovation Week.
The activities are designed to bring together schools, educators, technology providers and government entities in promoting innovative thinking and hands-on learning as part of UAE Innovation Week being held from November 22-28.
One of the events, to be held at Dubai’s Mirdif City Centre from November 26-28, will involve testing the skills of schoolchildren in building robots. Using their imagination and creativity, students will have to design and build a robot which can perform basic functions such as walking. Other competitions will see them use LEGO Education MINDSTORMS EV3 to build smart robots using sensors that can draw geometric patterns and sense the environment, while elementary school students will get hands-on experience with simple machines.
A separate event by the Sharjah Education Council, from November 22-25 at Sahara Centre, Sharjah, will see preschool children and educators creating a QR code of UAE Innovation Week, measuring approximately two square metres, in the colours of the UAE flag.
The students will also have the chance to build a future city using LEGO Education DUPLO sets. As part of a workshop, they will be trained in the principles behind gears, levers, pulleys, wheels and axles.
Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), in collaboration with ATLAB, will conduct the ‘Story Starter’ activity for primary school students. Story Starter is a tool to promote language and literacy that includes bricks and figures along with a software.
Participants from about 30 schools, divided into groups of three, will attempt to build the‘Primary School of Future’ using the LEGO Education StoryStarter set, indicating what they would like their school to look like in 2030. The event will be held from November 22-26.
ATLAB, a technology-based learning solutions company, is supporting the week by contributing to educational activities planned by KHDA and Sharjah Education Council, among others.
