The Abu Dhabi Technology and Development Committee (TDC) recently announced the launch of its strategic initiative ‘Lema?’ (meaning ‘Why’ in English), which is currently running in various schools across Abu Dhabi City, Al Ain and Al Gharbia. Today, H.E Ahmed Saeed Al Calily, Director General TDC, visited Khalifa ‘A’ School where he witnessed the initiative at first hand with scientific demonstrations made to students in grades 3-5, covering biology through show formats, and robotics through workshop formats.

Each show and workshop is fully equipped and delivered by trained science communicators, providing a fun and interactive environment for students to learn and actively participate outside of the classroom setting. ‘Lema?’ is planned to run alongside the existing curriculum, aiming to inspire Abu Dhabi youth in science and technology.
H.E Ahmed Saeed Al Calily, Director General of TDC said: “’Lema?’ implements global best-practices in science popularization and is designed to generate lasting, powerful and positive scientific experiences for our students, instilling their passion for science, and ultimately inspiring them into pursuing education and career choices in science and technology. We at TDC are proud of our strong partnership with the Abu Dhabi Education Council fostering a talented youth with the right skills and attitudes”.

During today’s visit, the students at Khalifa ‘A’ School took part in an interactive ‘Body Builders Show’, which explored the main organs of the body, described their main functions and delved into the role of healthy eating in maintaining optimum human function. This show, and others like it, will ultimately provide students with a better understanding of the musculoskeletal, circulatory, respiratory and digestive system basics, as well as better ways to stay healthy.

The visit to the school also saw students involved in a ‘Lego Workshop’, a challenging hands-on interactive session, which allowed students to program their own robots. The class explored what a robot is and why they are useful, as well as explaining programming and the mechanics of robots. As part of the workshop students also worked in small groups to program their robot and use their new-found programming knowledge and problem-solving skills to make their robot complete a number of challenges, each more complicated than the last.

Following each show and workshop, the students are given diverse classroom activities to showcase and put in to practice what they learnt, with the help and instruction of their school teachers.

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