Over 6,000 Abu Dhabi Students to Benefit from ADNOCs Innovative STEM Partnership with LEGO Education

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has inaugurated, its initial Lego Innovation Laboratory at the ADNOC School in Sas Al Nakhl, Abu Dhabi. LEGO Innovation Labs will certainly additionally be established in ADNOC Schools, in Abu Dhabi and the Al Dhafra region, which will profit over 6,000 Abu Dhabi students from Elementary to High School levels.

The LEGO Innovation Labs will certainly enable trainees to learn how to collaborate and practice their skills throughout all educational program topics and have access to LEGO Education's global internet collaboration communities.

Each LEGO Innovation Laboratory is based on a hands-on knowing method that actively includes students in their own knowing procedure, with animation and video innovation made use of to drive digital literacy. Among the skills children can develop are coding and robotics, in addition to making use of LEGO bricks to discover science, modern technology and mathematics. The program also includes a specialized training program and recurring support for teachers.

An integral component of ADNOC's integrated Corporate Social Responsibility program, the partnership with LEGO Education is carefully lined up with the UAE government's restored concentrate on establishing a varied academic curriculum based upon essential reasoning, science, mathematics and technology, such as Artificial Intelligence and anticipating information platforms.

Ghannam Al Mazrouei, Director, Person Funding and Administration Directorate and the Chairman of Education Entities Board of Trustees, ADNOC, said: "Our children's education is critical to the future prosperity of the nation. Today's inauguration indicates the implementation of ADNOC's substantial financial investment in the acceleration and growth of STEM education, in ADNOC institutions, that will certainly create a positive and long lasting influence on UAE society.

" As the nation boosts its focus on innovation, it is fitting that ADNOC, with our integrated CSR program, honors our sensible leadership's vision and passion to create even more appealing education experiences to enable our young people to satisfy their potential."

The inauguration of the LEGO Innovation Laboratory was gone to by Sarah Musallam, Executive Director Private Schools and Quality Assurance Field, Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEC). She congratulated ADNOC on the opening of the LEGO Innovation Labs, stressing ADEC's keenness to boost training techniques and give high-grade knowing programs that advance the research of scientific research, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in all institutions.

Musallem said: "ADEC encourages all imaginative initiatives that motivate pupils to stand out and introduce and aid them to develop and soak up ideas and info, develop their innovative and research abilities and meet their potential in order to contribute to the awareness of UAE vision 2021 and support the growth of all sectors, particularly education."

ADNOC's Company Social Responsibility efforts are fixated four locations: culture and community, education and innovation, security and setting, and wellness and health. ADNOC's objective is to create a favorable and lasting effect on society, with initiatives that integrate social impact, volunteering and national service.