QF partner universities teach advanced robotics to Qatar STEM school students
29 Apr 2021 - 7:54
The Peninsula
For the past seven months, Qatar Foundation partner universities Texas A&M University at Qatar and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) led an advanced robotics course for high school students in the Qatar Science and Technology Secondary School (QSTSS) under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
The course proposal was developed by the STEM experts Dr. Mohamed Gharib from Texas A&M at Qatar and it was approved by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. Then, the course was taught by Dr. Mohamed Gharib and Nour Tabet, the STEM program coordinator, from CMU-Q.
QCRI’s Creative Space honours winners of python competition
25 Apr 2021 - 9:48
Students during the online programme.
The Peninsula
Doha: Creative Space, part of the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) under Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), has announced the winners of its Python Programming Competition, which challenged 90 middle and high school students to put their coding skills to the test.
The students learned the coding language during a 30-hour online program offered by QCRI over the course of the current academic year. The participants comprised two groups of students from international schools and five groups from 11 Ministry of Education schools. The successful program concluded with the Python Competition held on April 10, challenging the students to program a Tic-Tac-Toe game using Python. With the option of competing individually or in teams of two, the students submitted their programs with a video to demonstrate their understanding.