DEWA | Organizes the fifth Engineer of the Future camp.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is organising the 5th Future Engineer camp for its employees’ children who are between 12 and 15 years old. This is part of DEWA’s efforts to achieve its vision to become a sustainable innovative world class utility and its role in enhancing creativity and scientific innovation among the younger generation. The camp will be held at DEWA’s ‘Reading is Positive Energy’ tent at Zabeel Park in Dubai. It will have two phases; the first from 29 July to 9 August 2018, and the second in December 2018. Students will graduate after completing the two phases.

This year's camp programme includes theoretical and practical activities on using power systems to control the operation of machines and equipment. It also includes learning the basics of robotics and how to build and develop smartphone software and apps, and other practical and scientific applications.

“Our efforts to promote innovation, support the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who once said, ‘Our responsibility is to prepare generations for the future and our ambitions are to have scientists who contribute to the progress of mankind.’ The Future Engineer camp is an ideal platform to prepare students for promising careers, providing them with technical skills, and developing their scientific research and their innovation and creativity. It also motivates the new generation to learn science and technologies, and take education to new levels. This supports DEWA’s objectives to consolidate a knowledge environment that contributes to preparing a generation armed with science and knowledge. This contributes to achieving the UAE Centennial Plan 2071, which is a long-term government plan to prepare the UAE and young Emiratis for the future,” said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA.

"The Future Engineer camp takes into account the mental and age needs and requirements of the students. It ensures they gain the knowledge and experience in the easiest and most appropriate way for them, and brings science and technology closer to the new generation through practical experiments and applications that contribute to preparing the next generation of scientists and creative minds. It also encourages young people to study scientific disciplines, and choose technical jobs to provide the future labour market with the necessary competencies and expertise," added Al Tayer.

Al Tayer noted that the 5th Future Engineer camp builds on the success of the previous Future Engineers camp. 40 students spent over 80 training hours learning about the basics of robotics and developing smart apps. The camp included specialised programmes to develop skills in communications, teamwork and scientific research. The participants’ happiness rate of last year’s camp was 99.86%.