INTELLIGENT VERTICAL: EDUCATION
delivering new approaches to learning that
can provide them with rich, immersive and
collaborative experiences to develop critical
and employability skills.
The Microsoft Innovation Lab at KidZania
will offer a choice to experience three
different activities that promote creativity,
collaboration, computational thinking
and problem-solving. The first is Hacking
STEM which is a series of fun project-based
activities that use everyday materials to
visualise data across science, technology,
engineering and maths (STEM). The second
activity is Make Code, a robotics activity that
creates engaging computer science learning
experiences that support a progression path
into real-world coding. And the third activity
is Paint 3D, that unleashes creativity and
allows kids to bring 3D designs to life.
“Our collaboration with Microsoft underlines
our strategic approach and contentious
effort to empower kids by providing them
with a fun-based learning opportunity to
gain much needed skills to prepare them for
the future.”
Microsoft Kuwait General Manager, Charles
Nahas, said: “Today’s kids will go to work in
a digitally transformed world – one in which
the Fourth Industrial Revolution has forever
reshaped how and where people earn a living.
“Microsoft has a proud history in
education, having played an active role in
transforming classrooms and encouraging
entrepreneurship in students as well as
empowering the youth to be future ready.
The Microsoft Innovation Lab is also
equipped with the latest Microsoft Surface
devices that are built from the ground-
up to boost engagement, productivity,
collaboration and creativity, making learning
interactive and inspiring. “The future digital communities will only
create prosperity for all if we have the
right leaders and workers – creative, critical
thinkers grounded in soft skills and capable
of great innovation. That is the work we have
done; it is the work we are doing now; and it
is the work that we will continue to do with
partners like KidZania”
Fernando Medroa, Vice President of Leisure
and Entertainment at M.H. Alshaya Co, said: At KidZania, Microsoft will also focus on raising
awareness of the essential role technology
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plays in children’s lives, underlining how
today’s children are more comfortable with
technology, and that being better equipped
with the right skills will enable them to
function more efficiently in the digital future.
These efforts are in line with Microsoft’s Cloud
Society Future Ready initiative, that aims to
empower the students of today to bring their
ideas to life and build new worlds tomorrow,
with the power of coding. n
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