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Qatar University’s (QU) Al-Bairaq Programme has launched the 17th cycle of its ‘I am a Researcher’ track, which is under the university’s Center for Advanced Materials (CAM), coinciding with the start of the new academic year.
The track is designed for Qatari high school seniors and aims to engage and stimulate student curiosity about science.
It helps transform high school students to researchers by working within a university environment, alongside experienced professors in the field of research.
The track familiarises students to the broad fields of science and improves their knowledge in various scientific disciplines.
President of Al-Bairaq Programme and Head of Communication and Outreach at QU, Dr. Noora Jabor al Thani spoke at the event saying, “Research is of great importance in solving problems through the combination of knowledge, observations and data, leading to creative solutions and innovative products, which can help individuals, industries and countries to transform theories into practical applications.”
Dr. Noora expressed gratitude and praised Al Bairaq’s sponsors, Ras Laffan Industrial City Community Outreach Programme (RLIC-COP) and UNESCO Office in Doha and Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science. She said, “I appreciate the ongoing support to the project from the supporting companies, who encourage us to continuously develop, confiding to us that we are on the right track”.
QUs Al-Bairaq Programme is the only Qatari educational programme, which won the “Reimagine Education” award for last three consecutive years. Al-Bairaq is proud to be the first and only educational program in Qatar that won the WISE Innovation Award for Education in 2015, which proves the excellence of the program and its recognition by international educational institutions as a successful effective program of impressive outcomes in the field of education and human development.
In her statement, Dr. Noura al Thani praised the supporting efforts for Al-Bairaq programme from a number of bodies inside the country. She said that this support gives the program an incentive to continue and develop, and move forward in serving the country.
The introductory meeting, attended by a group of high school students participating in this season from a number of schools in the country, presented a number of scientific researches in various fields such as materials science, environmental sciences, chemistry, physics and others. Students will choose their own research, competing for 5 new and innovative scientific papers.
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11/09/2019
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