After school programming delivered from September 2022 to April 2023 in collaboration with d.heritage2tech
Location: Building 9, Campus
The Office of the Provost, in collaboration with d.heritage2tech, is excited to announce the launch of Hikmah Lab. The Hikmah Lab draws from history and the name derives from the Bayt al-Hikmah – founded in the 7th century as a center of culture, science, and technology – the House of Wisdom. The Hikmah Lab will bring inventions from the Golden Age of Islam into the present day – and use these engineering methods to design and develop solutions for tomorrow’s problems – in an informal, hands-on, and experiential way.
The vision for the Hikmah Lab is to harness engineering design methodologies as the catalyst for immersive SCHTEAM (Science, Cultural Heritage, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) experiences which can be offered to the KAUST community… and beyond. Using d.heritage2tech’s thinking routine – Observe, Wonder and Imagine (OWI) – as a tool for developing meaningful and user-centered solutions enriched with cultural heritage, projects will progress through observation, wondering, ideation, production, testing, presentation and exhibition.
Read on for more information about the available workshops for 2023. To register your interest, please contact key@kaust.edu.sa
Kwarizmi Math Circle
Duration: five x one-hour sessions
Age: 8-10
Cost: SAR 80 per session
Total: SAR400 + VAT
Through group conversations, students explore, play with, produce examples and counterexamples, make conjectures, and discover mathematical insights. Mathematics is explored with low-threshold/high-ceiling mathematical problems outside of the typical math curriculum and discovered in an informal environment.
Through group conversations, students explore, play with, produce examples and counterexamples, make conjectures and discover mathematical insights. Mathematics is explored with low-threshold/high-ceiling mathematical problems outside of the typical math curriculum and discovered in an informal environment.
| Program 4 Thursday 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. | May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 | Few places left |
Design Engineering Charrettes
Duration: Five x one-hour sessions
Age: 8-16
Cost: SAR 80 per session
Total: SAR 400 + VAT
A series of fast-paced collaborative workshops devoted to solving a problem and planning its design solution. Each design charrette will introduce students to the fundamentals of architecture, engineering, science, structures, materials, forms, and spaces. Drawing design inspiration from nature (blooming flowers, animals, shells, spider webs, hurricanes, honeycombs, etc.), we’ll walk through the engineering design process and thinking routines. In addition to STEAM concepts, drawing, designing and rapid prototyping skills will be developed.
Design Charrette: SHELTER ON THE GO
| Program 4 Monday 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | March 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 | Few places left |
Engineering Expedition Series
Duration: 5 x 2 hour sessions
Age: 8-16
Cost: SAR160 per session. Total: SAR800 + VAT
Join four adventurous siblings on a thrilling expedition in the Middle East in a series of workshops based on different inventions of the Golden Islamic Era. Survival depends on understanding the still relevant, thousand-year old technologies and in applying engineering and mathematical skills. Each adventure follows an interdisciplinary SCHTEAM-based curriculum, interweaving history, geography, mathematics, science, cultural heritage, engineering, technology, architecture, and design. Concepts are learnt through reverse engineering, hands-on building and storytelling, culminating in the design of an original invention by the students.
Engineering Expeditions: THIRST!
| Program 4 Tuesday 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. | May 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 | Few places left |
| Program 4 Wednesday 3:45 – 5:45 p.m. | May 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31 | Few places left |
* Dates will be allocated based on the age-range of children registered.
