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Think Science Fair 2017 showcases 300 projects by UAE students
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2/12/2025
Think Science Fair 2017 showcases 300 projects by UAE students. Think Science is a programme run by the Emirates Foundation, an Abu Dhabi government body that aims to improve the welfare of the UAE’s youth.
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Solar-operated hacksaw, automatic car washer, these are some of the projects being showcased
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at the Think Science Fair 2017, which kicked off at the Dubai World Trade Center on Tuesday.
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In the first step, it will stop in the sensor for five seconds to put a soup.
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Then after five seconds, the belt will move again and will stop in the water.
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For five seconds, it will pressurize water, and the last step, it will stop in the air blower.
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For five seconds, it will stop in the air blower and give us air blower, then it will move out.
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So the green light will open and another car will enter.
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Think Science is a program run by the Emirates Foundation, an Abu Dhabi government body
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that aims to improve the welfare of the UAE's youth.
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This year, 300 inventions are on display at the three-day Think Science competition.
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The competition, which is now in its fourth year, sees 820 students from 100 schools
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and 20 universities v for awards.
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Also on site were 45 companies and institutes who offered career advice
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and hands-on science demonstrations.
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Here, it's going to actually levitate up.
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This is particularly targeting the next generation, so 15 to 30-year-olds,
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and it's using art as a medium to help engage with the STEM subjects
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and to teach about diabetes and architecture and engineering and urban planning,
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so a truly multi-faceted approach that will be highly engaging for young people.
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One single cube, you'll notice this beautiful glistening surface on the sugar.
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We love this magical sparkle because it gives a certain fairytale quality to it,
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and the reason it sparkles is because there's over 600,000 sugar crystals in a single cube.
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So it offers a certain multi-sensory kind of perception
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because people don't just see the cube and get to touch it,
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but they can imagine the taste of the sugar crystals dissolving on their tongue
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when they're actually interacting with it, so that's kind of quite special.
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And as a material for sculpting or for doing these educational projects, it's very, very accessible.
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For example, some of the sculptures you see behind us, some of them have taken a few days,
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or some of them have taken three weeks.
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So, for example, if I can point out here, we've got the Burj Khalifa,
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and it is basically the tallest building in the world, as we know.
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So we've been using it as an educational kind of tool today.
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We've been letting young people know about the structure, how it was built,
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and has these setbacks, which then work with the wind, and the vortexes,
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which then will allow the building to remain kind of without any motion.
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So we're using that as an architectural aspect,
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and that's how we kind of talk about the science of building and architecture.
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