Muscat: As part of its innovative education programme ‘NXplorers’, Oman Shell in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, and Shell Australia, organised a joint knowledge-sharing session for Al Munir bin Al Nair school in the Sultanate of Oman and Wandoan State School in Australia.
This session comes within the framework of sharing of knowledge and know-how on students’ projects related to water, food, and energy challenges.
Shell NXplorers is a proven, state-of-the-art education programme for young people that focuses on finding creative solutions, that can lead to a positive socio-economic impact.
The programme is designed to explore solutions for food, water and energy problems in the respective countries, and aims to promote awareness and knowledge on such subjects, through a complex problem-solving methodology, as well as integrating system thinking for promising future leaders.
In the Sultanate of Oman, the programme targets students, from the age 15-17 years old, to bring forth positive initiatives in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The latest knowledge-sharing session discussed school projects and how to use methodological thinking tools to study different issues and challenges that enabled them to discover the interrelationships between such projects.
The session further discussed sustainability plans, the scope of expansion, and local community engagement to achieve the highest levels of public interest.
The 10th grade students of Wandoan State School in Australia made a comparison between the soil and aquatic plants grown with the products served for the students’ lunches, offering affordable, seasonal, organic, and fresh local products to Wandoan City.
This was followed by the opening of a park for the community members who desire to grow and sell their own products.
In this regard, the students have developed a smart application for park visitors to get information about the produce found in various areas of the park.
Students of Al Munir bin Al Nair School in the Governorate of South Al Sharqiyah used waste-water to irrigate the school garden and cultivated different high-demand crops of the area, such as coriander, pumpkin, watercress and others, establishing their project to sell agricultural produce to the local community in the future.
Oman Shell successfully runs the NXplorers programme in 22 schools across governorates of the Sultanate of Oman.
Since its inception in 2018, the carefully developed programme has trained about 1,400 male and female students in cooperation with the Ministry of Education.
