College of Education in cooperation with Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance organized a workshop on “Innovative Digital Fabrication Lab and Arduino Programming in Education”. The workshop highlighted 2 student experiences of using Arduino programming in production.

 

The 1st  student experience was by Asraa and Nassibah Abdulrahman Al Yousif whom showcased their experience in producing a “Comfort Cart” which is a shopping cart designed to ease the burden of shopping for women, the elderly and people of determination by helping them avoid back pain as the cart monitors the weight of the purchases and elevates the heavy ones. While the 2nd student experience was about a fire alarm system designed to look like a child’s toy and is called “Survivor – Nagi” where it alerts to any fire in its vicinity. This was presented by Maitha Yahia who in turn thanked ‘Fab Lab” for their efforts in transforming her idea into a reality and with giving her the opportunity to give some workshops to school and university thus helping her move from the student role to the teacher role which she enjoyed tremendously.

 

Fab Lab UAE is the first comprehensive educational Fab-Lab in the UAE was established by Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance with main objective being to create an innovation-supporting environment and integrated infrastructure by providing community centers (fab labs) that provide all the segments of society with the opportunity to use the latest devices, tools and programs as well as providing training courses in the digital manufacture world for all segments of society.