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Dubai, UAE: GEMS Education has partnered with Singularity University on the Sixth Annual Maker Day, which will be hung on February Fourth from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm at Wellington Academy Silicon Oasis.

Maker Day is a celebration of innovation and imagination that showcases innovative student jobs in addition to free workshops on robotics, 3D printing and Arduino program.

This year Manufacturer Day will certainly hold the regional finals for the GEMS Singularity University Global Innovation Challenge. The Global Innovation Difficulty welcomes young innovators from around the globe to utilize innovation to address as well as solve the world's most pressing issues.

Groups consist of disaster resilience, food shortage, prosperity, environmental sustainability, health care and even more. Students are encouraged to create models using future-focused modern technologies such as 3D printing, robotics, nanotechnology - as well as skills such as data scientific research and coding.

Trainees from across the region began thinking of their tasks during hack-a-thons held during the UAE Week of Innovation. The students made use of design thinking, a human centred technique to innovation popular with leading innovation companies to have much better understanding of the difficulty groups and individuals impacted. They were motivated to think about means to make use of innovation to produce solutions that can affect a great deal of individuals.

GEMS Innovation, Research, and Growth Innovation Leader, Christine Nasserghodsi, shared: "During the program of innovation week and this obstacle, our pupils have actually formulated and executed suggestions that could have a favorable influence on billions of lives around the world. While this exposes them to new horizons - in regards to skill and modern technology, they feel more certain about themselves with the idea that they can change communities and the world past. They are equipped problem-solvers and we need them."

Project prototypes are well underway at some institutions and include services such as 3D printed air pollution eating algae and inexpensive pop-up schools for refugee camps and calamity areas. Prizes will be granted in each group to services in both the junior (age 13 and below) and senior (age 14 and over) classification. Up to twelve senior projects will certainly be offered seed funding and mentorship and choose projects will certainly exist at the yearly Singularity Summit in Silicon Valley, California.

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