Doha: Chevron Phillips Chemical Qatar has donated QR175,000 to the American School of Doha (ASD) to support a new High School Robotics and Computer Science Lab.
ASD’s focus on offering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) programming at the school has increased in both size and student popularity over the past few years. The donation will allow ASD to renovate a classroom to provide the space needed for Computer Science and Robotics classes. This new specialised classroom will also create the ideal environment for ASD Robotics competition teams to flourish.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Qatar’s donation will support structural changes to the space, new flooring specified for testing and operating robots, collaborative student workstations, and adequate storage facilities for the numerous parts and pieces involved in the Robotics programme.
Facilities like this will be an added resource to students and student groups, like the ASD Robotics Club, which competed in the Qatar National Robotics Olympiad and the Qatar Region Botball Tournament (QRBT) this year and won first place in both events. As a result of winning the QRBT, the ASD team will be attending the International Botball Tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico
this July.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Qatar President Michael Zeglin presented a cheque to Dr Deborah Welch, ASD Director after meeting members of the ASD
Robotics Team.
The Peninsula
