Oman Science Festival set to begin next week

Oman Monday 28/October/2019 14:00 PM
By: Times News Service
Oman Science Festival set to begin next week

Muscat: The Ministry of Education held a press conference on Monday under the auspices of HE Saud Al Balushi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for Planning and Human Resources Development regarding the Oman Science Festival.

The press conference included a presentation of the festival promotional film. After that, Al Balushi said: “The festival, in its first edition, was a national umbrella for all works related to technology. In its second edition, Oman Science Festival seeks to include the use of technology in various fields of life. It also covers a wider area in terms of space, and there is more participation of military institutions and international institutions to include students, innovators, scientists and intellectuals from within and outside the Sultanate."

The festival will take place at the International Convention and Exhibition Center, with the participation of 60 governmental, military and private sector institutions.

300 events will be held and more than 1,200 participants are expected. Programming and robot competitions, hackathons, drone competitions, scientific presentations at the festival stage as well as scientific cinema are some of the events planned.

There is also extensive participation from international organizations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Rolls Royce Foundation.

"Oman Science Festival 2019 will host international speakers to talk about science in various areas: STEM, support and promotion of science and innovation, the outlook of energy sector, robot, and artificial intelligence and future functions. There will be discussion sessions accompanying the festival on the 5th and 6th of November, distributed at a rate of two sessions per day," a statement from the organisers said.

It is worth mentioning that the festival aims at introducing knowledge development program in science, mathematics and environmental geography concepts. The festival also aims to deliver science to students in particular and society in general through easy means and stimulating ways of creative thinking and create a positive trend towards science, innovation and scientific research.

It also seeks to help students to recognize the importance of science in life and to encourage them to innovate, and keep pace with global trends based on the dissemination of science and technology, and changes and expected future developments of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.