# About STEM

**Source**: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/stem/about
**Parent**: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/stem

## Helping Qatar’s youth succeed and find educational pathways in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

The STEM outreach team at HBKU has decades of combined experience in higher education. Thanks to diverse
backgrounds and academic expertise, we are able to offer engaging STEM learning opportunities across a range
of topics. This includes exciting hands-on programs for school students in grades 3–12, in addition to
professional development for teachers, counselors and curriculum coordinators. We work closely with schools
and education officials across the country to motivate Qatar’s youth and stimulate learning in STEM fields.

###### Collaborate with us

- STEM curriculum development and innovation
- novel integration of STEM disciplines in project-based learning
- adaptation of pre-university STEM activities and projects toward national priorities and grand challenges
  themes
- team building and near-peer mentoring
- culturally responsive STEM awareness
- student identity and motivation toward STEM studies
- arts and humanities in support of critical thinking
- ethics and communication skills in pre-university STEM activities

## Meet the Team

### G. Benjamin Cieslinski

Outreach Manager

### Tala Katbeh

Outreach Laboratory Instructor

### Mustafa Abidi

Outreach Coordinator