Doha: The National Science Research Week, organised by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, will be held from today till March 15, with the National Fund for Scientific Research.
Events include the third Qatar National Olympiad of Physics and Astronomy, the “Fame Lab” competition, the National Programming Competition, the Media Creativity Award and the Action Research Contest, a competition dedicated to teachers, in which 411 teachers from 97 schools participate in 363 procedural research. In addition, the participants, who are entitled to take part in the 10th National Student Research Exhibition, attended about 1,900 students from 218 public and private schools at different levels of education. They presented 900 research papers and an innovative project.
The activities aim at enhancing students’ scientific research skills, developing them and celebrating them, spreading the spirit of cooperation and competition among them, achieving excellence in scientific research, highlighting their projects dealing with the problems of the times and providing the necessary support, as well as cooperation and coordination with partners in the State’s institutions concerned with student research, by providing opportunity for distinguished research projects to participate in regional and international competitions.
