The Eureka Tech Academy’s National Tech project on Sunday launched its second phase, offering tech courses in programming and artificial intelligence to 60 public schools across the Kingdom.
The Eureka Tech Academy, which specializes in tech education for children, partnered with the Ministry of Education, the European Union, Jordan Ahli Bank, Alhussein Technical University, University of Applied Science, Hashemite University, Al Yarmouk University, and the Crown Prince Foundation.
The second phase of the project, which kicked off in the 2021-2022 school year, includes meetings with a number of students from 60 public school in the Northern Badia, Irbid, Salt, Ajloun, Almuaqqar, Zarqa, and Aqaba, and offers tech courses in programming and artificial intelligence and follows up on the implementation of the project through a weekly quiz prepared by faculty members of partner universities.
Wrapping up the second phase in January 2022, the academy will hold the “Jordan Tech Champions 2” competition where a representative from each school will participate in a programming and artificial intelligence contest.
The first phase of the project started in the second semester of year 2020-2021 with the King Abdullah II Schools for Excellence and included 700 student in 13 school across the Kingdom. It concluded on May 2021 with the “Jordan Tech Champions” in Alhussein Technical University under the auspices of HRH Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II.
The Eureka Tech Academy supports the Ministry of Education’s vision in spreading tech education to students by training them to be innovative at a young age. Its Eureka Tech platform is the first in the Arab region to teach technology to children aged 10 to 18. In 2014, the academy trained about 5 thousand students in Jordan in the fields of robotics technology, electric engineering, electronics, control systems, Internet of Things (IoT), alternative energy, video games programming, and entrepreneurship.
The platform won 10 regional and international awards in technology competitions, and was chosen among the top 10 pioneer projects in the Arab world.
Source: Jordan News Agency