AMMAN — Jordan Young Scientists (JoYS)
will hold its first exhibition in the Kingdom, which it hopes will encourage
school students to innovate, the group said in a statement Tuesday.
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JoYS is a new national project aimed at motivating
and rewarding young people who study, apply, and benefit from science,
mathematics, engineering, and technology abilities, according to the statement.
“This initiative is based on a tried-and-true
concept that was first launched in Ireland over fifty years ago and has since
been replicated in Kenya and Tanzania,” the statement said. “It has now been
decided to establish it in Jordan.”
The initiative has been developed in collaboration
with the Embassy of Ireland, Ministry of Culture, the Crown Prince Foundation,
and the Queen Rania Foundation.
“Its objective is to promote innovation, develop
necessary skills, and encourage students to use scientific methodology in the
physical, biological, and social sciences outside of the classroom framework,”
according to the statement.
It said the first exhibition of the JoYS initiative
will be held on June 8 at Al Hussein Technical University in Hussein Business
Park.
“The first pilot will serve as a catalyst for
encouraging school students to innovate,” the statement said. “It is planned,
from 2023, that JoYS will become the paramount national Science and Technology
competition for secondary schools in Jordan.”
Vincent O’Neill, Ireland’s ambassador to Jordan,
said the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition has “hugely contributed to
the uptake of science in secondary schools and the quality of its teaching.”
“I have no doubt that similar benefits will occur in
Jordan as a result of the launch of JoYS. Ireland remains committed to
supporting this initiative to ensure its success,” he said.
He said the governments of Ireland and Jordan are
working jointly to “ensure that this national initiative will be a huge success
and bring great benefits to the individual students themselves, to their
teacher and to the Jordanian society in the form of new innovations, new
projects, new ways of dealing with problems faced by ordinary Jordanians and solved
by young people.”
JoYS Chairman Mohammad Tahboub ”is a chance for
Jordanian society to focus on innovation and creativity and to help the youth
to be a part of the innovation system”.
“Our ambition is to let JoYS enter every school,
every house and to motivate our children to participate, innovate, think and
contribute. Therefore, our ambition in JoYS is to fix a part of the innovation
and creativity system in Jordan, to provide universities with a distinguished
group of students who are open to learn and contribute in building the
society,” he said.
“In turn, the universities will graduate
distinguished students for business incubators, investors and business
companies where we are going to be able to develop our country and build it in
a better way,” he added
JoYS lead coordinator Manar Issam Abdullah said the
initiative is “one of its kind in Jordan where we will invest in young people
to build a bright future for them and help improve the Jordanian society.
“I have been working with the students and teachers
since day one to ensure that they are satisfied and are moving forward with
their projects as how they planned, and to give them any help the needed and I
was amused with the hard work, passion and the commitment that they have shown
to bring new unique ideas to JoYS,” she added.
The statement three primary pillars of the JoYS
program are outreach activities, an annual exhibition, and a bootcamp.
It said outreach activities will provide students and
teachers with the opportunity to participate in workshops for a variety of
scientific and practical experiences.
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