PISQ students during their participation in Maker Majlis, a Youth Development Program.
A group of the students of Pakistan International School-Qatar (PISQ) participated in Maker Majlis, a Youth Development Program by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a great platform for the young minds.
The event was hosted by Hammad Bin Khalifa University at the Education City Mosque. Nine students from Pakistan International School namely Munyb Jamal, Muhammad Moosa, Mauzzah Naseem, Maheen Malik, Alyna Arshad, Aruba Atif, Eiman Iftikhar, Umme Haani Ali and Sarah Akbar attended this program.
In the program, students learned a lot about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a fun way. On the very first day the students were tested about their knowledge of the SDGs and later they watched a video about Qatar’s development for the FIFA World Cup 2022 and the work in progress for Qatar’s 2030 vision.
To make the task a little more challenging the students were then asked to choose the issue that needed serious attention and which had to be solved at first hand. On the second day the students were asked to relate the problems to Qatar and find solutions to solve the problem they had chosen the previous day.
All the students worked hard to come up with ideas to solve them. On the third day the students were given a new challenge to make a prototype of a business idea that they market as well as solve the problem and earn a reasonable profit. The winning team had two students, Munyb Jamal and Umme Haani Ali, from Pakistan International School.
Their team were given SDG 8 which aimed at decent work and economic growth and the issue, the team chose was ‘to overcome the problems faced by the workers due to extreme heat in Qatar’ and they came up with a brilliant idea of ‘ultra cool’ which would be a uniform comprising of a cooling device, powered by the belt, in the shirt and a jump suit made of reflective material, made of aluminium, to save the workers from heat and provide them a sustainable environment to work on very hot days.
