If you are looking for a child centered learning atmosphere where you want your kids to actively become involved in their own learning process or build engineering and science intuition and renewable energy or develop their interests in math and scientific technology or strengthen their research and problem solving skills or all of the above, then there is one place in Qatar that you MUST take your kids to.
Location details of The Little Engineer can be found at www.rush360.qa by searching for "The Little Engineer" or "Robotics", or "Lego".
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The Little Engineer in Qatar is serving the community since January 2014 (Originally established in Lebanon in 2009) with a couple of quality programs and many more to come! The courses Currently on offer are Robotics and Go Green, for kids 6 years to pre university age as follows:
Elementary 6-9 years
Intermediate 8-14 years
Advance 10-15 years
Senior 16+ years
Robotics Level 0A (Available)
Robotics Level 0B (Available)
Robotic Level 1 (Available)
Robotic Level 2 (Available)
Robotic Level 3 (Coming Soon)
Robotics Level 4 (Coming Soon)
Robotics Level 5 (Coming Soon)
Introduction To Robotics (Available)
Kids & Teens Go Green (Available)
Technology Level 1 (Coming Soon)
Technology Level 2 (Coming Soon)
Additionally they also facilitate the
following:
- Scientific Birthdays
- TLE Clubs in Schools (for schools who wants to provide their students with advanced science and Technology Knowledge)
- Workshops (In their Centers or at site)
- Corporate Events and workshops.
- Summer Camps.
- Schools Visits (Take your class to TLE center and Enjoy a thrilling 3 hours of practical Science in a fun and interactive learning method "Edutainment")
- One time workshops for students or homeschoolers which is Pay As You Go, where the student can come and take an hour or two to try out
- TLE has its own mobile station that can go to any location in Qatar to give a WOW experience.
- Girls only sessions are available too with female instructors in Arabic and English.
Cost for each course varies and for information on it please contact
info@thelittleengineer.qa
or call them on +974 6623 8884 .
Ms. Karen Slim the passionate, charismatic Manager of The Little Engineer says:
"TLE’s aim is to bridge the gap between schools and universities and prepare its students for the challenging future in the areas of Engineering and Science. Our values serve as a compass for our actions and describe how we behave in the world."
Leadership: The courage to shape a better future
Collaboration: Leverage collective genius
Integrity: Be real
Accountability: If it is to be, it's up to me
Passion: Committed in heart and mind
Diversity: As inclusive as our brands
Quality: What we do, we do well
The Little Engineer is no stranger to some of the schools in Qatar such as Al Jazeera School, Al Mahd School, Al Maha, Qatar Academy, Compass Gharafa, Madinat Khalifa, and Al Rayan where the kids have been enjoying some structured technology time as part of their school curriculum!
Café Ceramique is the sister company of The Little Engineer and now they also have sessions at both the Café Ceramique outlets at the Gate Mall as well as the Mall!
We asked Karen to describe a typical course for us so that the parents are aware what would their children learn! Here is her description!
At TLE the description of any course always falls down to our great
5Cs.
Connect: our students connect the brain to the sensors and actuators
Construct: our students start to follow our instructions to start building there models
Contemplate: our students start to program the model they have completed
Complicate: the most important part of the program is when our students have to troubleshoot the problems that are occurring in the mission to reach the objective of the class
Continue: education and continuity of the tweaking and adjustments of models will go beyond our classes
The Little Engineer always aims for continuity, they have tracks and those tracks include a set of courses tailored for each age group. After completion of a track the students can take another track of higher level.
At the end of each course a certification is awarded which is accredited from the International Accreditation Organization (IAO)
Over all, Karen is satisfied with the interest she sees here in Qatar and aims to spread their contents to more people and reach more enthusiastic students, even though the competitors are a challenge she is confident that at The Little Engineer she and her team would do their best and work towards motivation, development, and perseverance to achieve success!
Our sincere thanks to Karen for taking her time to give us all details! Next time your little guy or girl is fussing with boredom you know where to take them for some quality fun technology time!