ACK holds seminar
In cooperation with Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity (SACGC), the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) held a seminar entitled “Kuwaiti Inventions: from Concept to Reality” to promote the culture of creativity and encourage students to innovate to keep up with developments in all fields.
On his part, Dr Mohammed Abdul Nibi, Dean of School of Engineering, said that cooperation with Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity came within the College’s plan to follow the applied models in education as well as theoretical education, where proven methods of education in the College and Project-Based Learning (PBL and CDIO). These methods are successful as students work through collective and individual projects in research, developing strategies and procedures to create and innovate successful solutions in the various areas.
On the other hand, Eng Abdullah Al-Jadaan, Director of Innovation Department at Sabah AlAhmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity, said that based on the innovation management strategy emanating from the vision and mission of the Center, which aims to discover and nurture innovators and creative persons and support their ideas and projects, the Center provides support to adopt their ideas, and projects to convert them into tangible reality. Hence, the Center, through its supporting management, is keen to hold such seminars to spread the culture of creativity and encourage innovation because of its impact on the development and renaissance of societies.
Eng Al-Jadaan added: “We hope that through our seminars, our students get to learn a great deal from inventor Jassem Mutlaq and inventor Heba Al-Hazza who shared their experience in the world of invention and showed our students how to turn their ideas into reality.