Dr. Al-Mathami extended appreciation to Prince Badr Bin Abdullah Bin Farhan, chairman of the Saudi National Committee for Education, Culture, and Science, and the Minister of Culture, for sponsoring and supporting the "Gifted Arabs" initiative.
Alqahtani began researching her prizewinning project last year as a participant in Mawhiba, a national STEM program for gifted-and-talented students in Saudi Arabia, and won a behavioral science award in this year’s Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair.
The program was launched with the aim of transforming 6,000 students from various regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia into engineers, doctors and scientists in 23 scientific units to be provided intensively over 21 days.