Students pose for a group picture along with RasGas officials.
RasGas Company Ltd (RasGas) recently organised ‘Engineering Career Awareness Students Orientation Session 2013’ for 140 students from six schools in Qatar. It was held mainly to raise curiosity of high school students in the area of core engineering disciplines such as mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering. Presentations were made by two RasGas engineers. Students explored career development opportunities available at RasGas.
Thamer Al Kaabi, Head of National Development at RasGas, gave an overview about the RasGas Scholarship and Internship programmes and said: “RasGas strongly believes that education is vital for human capital development in our country.
“We hope this career awareness session will inspire our future high school graduates to take up engineering as their continuing education stream.”
Abdurrahman Al Mannai, Learning and Development Manager at RasGas, said: “We believe we are accountable for ensuring the professional development of Qataris through supporting education across all ages, the transfer of knowledge and skills and being the employer of choice for Qatari nationals.
“As a platinum sponsor, RasGas supports Al Bairaq programme in partnership with Qatar University, which will help secure a better mathematics and science standing in Qatar and spark interest in applied sciences and engineering among Qatari youth,” he said.
“Al Bairaq programme is aimed to create new, effective strategies to raise enrollment of Qatari youth in science-based studies following the approach ‘learning through conducting tesearch’,” he said.
The Peninsula
