1. Nasser Maktoum Al Sheraifi;s Innovation Award,
GIPA Innovates
Aim: To inspire, encourage, and empower GIPA staff and students to embark on a career in Science and technology

2. Objectives of the Meeting
Brainstorming Session about details of the award for students

3. Objectives of the Meeting
Students needs to be aware of this prize
Teachers of science, IT and Math need to collaborate to work with individual students or groups of students
Raise awareness for students about the award and to help them come up with something valuable
Innovation Fair is a science fair with a twist now

4. Registration of Projects
Online application for projects registration will be available on school portal.

5. Project Domains
The submitted projects should be in the scope
of one of the following fields.
1: Energy
2: Environmental Sciences
3: Information & Communication
4: Physics and chemistry
5: Transportation

6. Evaluation Criteria
Each aspect has 20 Marks
1: Benefit & Value
2: Originality and Uniqueness
3: Quality and design
4: Practicality and sustainability
5: Presentation
Evaluation Panel
1: The School Principal
2: Selected Staff
3: Education Consultant

7. Student Category
Individual students or a team of 3 members
1st prize 4000 AED
2nd 3000 AED
3rd 2000 AED
A team of three members one should be U.A.E national

8. Timeline
Semi final 15 May
Final 23 May
Award 2nd Of June
fair on the 15th or the 23rd?

9. Examples of projects that the students could be working on:
1: Salt Remediation Desalination of ocean water is continually increasing the salt concentration in costal areas of U.A.E

10. 2: Recycle More
The idea behind this project was to create awareness and to motivate the community about waste recycling.

11. 3: Investigation of air pollutants and their impacts on human health.
Rapid increase in industry and transportation has badly effected the U.A.E air quality.

12. 4:Track your Beloved One The DNA finger printing bracelet was used to take care of children's and people suffering from mental illness.

13. Links for STEM and Science fair Project Ideas'
Kindly visit the below website

14. Suggestions???