The Minister of Education visits Mishkat
Riyadh, the 9th of Shaaban 1436 H, corresponding to May 27, 2015:
The Minister of Education, Dr. Azzam bin Mohammed al-Dakhil, visited today Mishkat interactive Center (one of King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energys’ contributions). During his visit, he was presented with the most prominent educational programs provided by the exhibition that aids in raising awareness about the importance of the sustainable energy sources usage and the resulting positive effects on the environmental and economic level.
The Minister of Education remarked that the programs and methods of teaching should pay more attention to the subjects of energy, as the students’ field visits to Mishkat interactive exhibition will have a clear impact in motivating them and in educating them of the usage of sustainable energy sources.
It is worth pointing out that Mishkat exhibition is open throughout the school year to welcome school groups at a rate of 400 students according to their designated days (females – males). The tour begins by presenting an introductory presentation on the atomic and renewable energy sources, then watch the movie Kingdom of sustainable energy; which answers the three Key questions that are: Why Saudi Arabia, why the atomic and renewable energy and why now.
After that, the visitor starts to actually identify the answers to the previously mentioned questions through the interactive exhibits of scientific information. The visitor can applied and interact immediately with those exhibits.