MUSCAT: With an eye on technology, the Ministry of Education will host the Oman Science Festival at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre (OCEC) next month.
This was announced at a press conference held under the auspices of HE Saud Al Balushi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for Planning and Human Resources Development.
“In its second edition, Oman Science Festival seeks to include the use of technology in various fields of life. It also covers a wider area in terms of space, and there is more participation of military institutions and international institutions to include students, innovators, scientists and intellectuals from within and outside the Sultanate,” he said.
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The festival will have participation from 60 governmental, military and private sector institutions. 300 events will be held and more than 1,200 participants are expected for the event. Programming and robot competitions, hackathons, drone competitions, scientific presentations will be held at the festival stage, along with scientific cinema.
There is also extensive participation from international organizations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Rolls Royce Foundation.
“Oman Science Festival 2019 will host international speakers to talk about science in various areas: STEM, support and promotion of science and innovation, the outlook of energy sector, robot, and artificial intelligence and future functions. There will be discussion sessions accompanying the festival on the 5th and 6th of November, distributed at a rate of two sessions per day,” a statement from the organisers said.
It is worth mentioning that the festival aims at introducing knowledge development program in science, mathematics and environmental geography concepts. The festival also aims to deliver science to students in particular and society in general through easy means and stimulating ways of creative thinking and create a positive trend towards science, innovation and scientific research.
It also seeks to help students to recognize the importance of science in life and to encourage them to innovate, and keep pace with global trends based on the dissemination of science and technology, and changes and expected future developments of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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