JEDDAH: Children are learning about the Red Sea through science, environmental research, mapping and robotics at Takween’s STEM summer camp at the Red Sea Museum in Historic Jeddah.
Running until Aug. 29, the camp is designed by Saudi interdisciplinary learning organization Takween, Home of Design & Innovation, which combines science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics with architecture, design and practical projects.
The five-day program brings together subjects that are often taught separately, with participants investigating the marine environment, studying habitats, building models and working with coding and robotics.
“We don’t want kids just learning about science; we want them actually doing it,” said Takween founders Batool Abedi and Zainab Alireza.
“Nobody sat and listened to a lecture. These kids were geologists figuring out how the Red Sea actually formed; they were researchers cataloging real habitats, they built a huge map together by hand, and by the afternoon they were coding a robot to simulate a fish migrating between ecosystems.”
