Dhahran, Rabi’ al-Akhir 20, 1440 AH, corresponding to December 27, 2018 AD, SPA
The activities of the second scientific camp for the Kingdom’s orphans, “Misbar 2,” began today, which is held under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Ahmed bin Fahd bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Governor of the Eastern Province, and organized by the Benaa Association for Orphan Care in the Eastern Province, and hosted by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, for a period of ten days, with the participation of 20 orphan care associations in the Kingdom, at the university’s headquarters in Dhahran.
80 students have arrived in the Eastern Province, representing orphan care associations in the Kingdom, to participate in the camp. The participation of distinguished students in the secondary stage in the second edition of the camp will be in 8 tracks. The scientific tracks include space sciences, aviation, innovation, robotics, and Toastmaster, and the enrichment tracks, art, media, sports, and scientific experiments, which aim to enhance life, career, and training skills, and keep pace with the skills of the twenty-first century, which opens horizons for these young people to create promising opportunities in the future, whether in university education or specializations.Scientific research and contribution to achieving the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.
Member of the Shura Council and Director General of the Benaa Association for Orphan Care, Abdullah bin Rashid Al-Khalidi, thanked His Highness the Deputy Emir of the Eastern Province for his sponsorship of the camp and for His Highness’s honoring of the closing ceremony that will be held next Thursday at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
Al-Khalidi added that the second science camp comes after the success of its first edition, which was held at the beginning of the current year 2018 AD, with the participation of 40 children from orphan associations in the Kingdom, during which the children achieved many achievements and worked on projects for each of the camp’s tracks, which included “space and aviation sciences, innovation, robots, and Toastmaster,” in addition to acquiring a number of skills in communication, dialogue, decision-making, problem-solving, and teamwork skills, stressing its tangible positive impact on the participants in the last camp because of the innovative scientific tracks it included.The scientific aspects of the participants and individual differences were taken into account, and the appropriate path was chosen for each participant.
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