TRENDING
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TODAY’S KIDS WILL
GO TO WORK IN A DIGITALLY
TRANSFORMED WORLD.
from the ground-up to boost engagement,
productivity, collaboration and creativity,
making learning interactive and inspiring.
Fernando Medroa, Vice President of Leisure
and Entertainment at MH Alshaya Co, said:
“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 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”
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
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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. The Microsoft
Innovation Lab is also equipped with the
latest Microsoft Surface devices that are built
At KidZania, Microsoft will also focus
on raising awareness of the essential
role technology 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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