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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00:00Solar-operated hacksaw, automatic car washer, these are some of the projects being showcased
00:13at the Think Science Fair 2017, which kicked off at the Dubai World Trade Center on Tuesday.
00:19In the first step, it will stop in the sensor for five seconds to put a soup.
00:25Then after five seconds, the belt will move again and will stop in the water.
00:29For five seconds, it will pressurize water, and the last step, it will stop in the air blower.
00:33For five seconds, it will stop in the air blower and give us air blower, then it will move out.
00:38So the green light will open and another car will enter.
00:43Think Science is a program run by the Emirates Foundation, an Abu Dhabi government body
00:47that aims to improve the welfare of the UAE's youth.
00:50This year, 300 inventions are on display at the three-day Think Science competition.
00:55The competition, which is now in its fourth year, sees 820 students from 100 schools
01:00and 20 universities v for awards.
01:04Also on site were 45 companies and institutes who offered career advice
01:08and hands-on science demonstrations.
01:10Here, it's going to actually levitate up.
01:12This is particularly targeting the next generation, so 15 to 30-year-olds,
01:18and it's using art as a medium to help engage with the STEM subjects
01:24and to teach about diabetes and architecture and engineering and urban planning,
01:31so a truly multi-faceted approach that will be highly engaging for young people.
01:38One single cube, you'll notice this beautiful glistening surface on the sugar.
01:43We love this magical sparkle because it gives a certain fairytale quality to it,
01:48and the reason it sparkles is because there's over 600,000 sugar crystals in a single cube.
01:54So it offers a certain multi-sensory kind of perception
01:57because people don't just see the cube and get to touch it,
02:00but they can imagine the taste of the sugar crystals dissolving on their tongue
02:04when they're actually interacting with it, so that's kind of quite special.
02:07And as a material for sculpting or for doing these educational projects, it's very, very accessible.
02:12For example, some of the sculptures you see behind us, some of them have taken a few days,
02:16or some of them have taken three weeks.
02:19So, for example, if I can point out here, we've got the Burj Khalifa,
02:23and it is basically the tallest building in the world, as we know.
02:27So we've been using it as an educational kind of tool today.
02:30We've been letting young people know about the structure, how it was built,
02:32and has these setbacks, which then work with the wind, and the vortexes,
02:36which then will allow the building to remain kind of without any motion.
02:39So we're using that as an architectural aspect,
02:43and that's how we kind of talk about the science of building and architecture.