A massive summer program where grade 9-11 students spend several weeks designing and building a focused engineering project. Previous programs included 3D printing, wireless electronics and aeronautical engineering.

In partnership with Occidental Petroleum of Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar offers six major STEM outreach programs for students in grades 7–12 in schools across Qatar. These programs cover an array of academic topics and themes, but they have one common thread: Each is designed to help students discover educational pathways for studies and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Read the description of each program here, and a table below provides dates and application timelines.

Engineering Heroes: Qatar Special Investigators is designed to demonstrate that engineering is essential in all aspects of life, participants in grades 9–12 will learn how engineering is used in a variety of careers centered on the heroes of daily life. Past themes included the use of drone technology with members of Qatar’s military, and the science and engineering behind crime scene analysis with Qatar’s investigators with the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation.

In App Camp, students from grades 8–12 will learn the basics of how to code, prototype, test, and refine their ideas for a working mobile phone application.

Qatar Invents is an exciting program in which participants learn the fundamentals of the engineering design process: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Students from grades 9–12 will be tasked with coming up with novel solutions to serious problems, building prototypes, and successfully defending their inventions to a panel of experts.

Students from grades 7–9 design, prototype and build a craft capable of cleaning up Qatar’s vast coastline. It must be able to move along land and water, and pick up debris that has washed up on our pristine beaches. The basics of the design process will be tackled, along with learning topics such as lift, thrust, weight distribution and 3D modeling.