Dec 7 2009
From The Space Library
NASA announced that it had partnered with the Arab Youth Venture Foundation in Dubai, United Arab EMirates (UAE), to provide three to twelve UAE engineering students each year the opportunity to work on NASA missions with U.S. students, scientists, and engineers. The mission of the Arab Youth Venture Foundation was to nurture innovative spirits and entrepreneurial attitudes in youth ages 6–21 throughout the Arab world. The Foundation would accomplish this by creating activities to help develop the next generation of scientific researchers, engineers, inventors, corporate leaders, and entrepreneurs. Under the Space Act Agreement program, UAE students would join U.S. students in a research project administered by the Education Associates Program at NASA’s ARC. NASA anticipated that the first group of Education Research Fellows would arrive in January 2010. The program would enable NASA to engage outstanding students in the UAE, helping them continue to develop critical skills of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as well as providing U.S. participants with valuable cultural exposure and experience working with international counterparts.
NASA, “NASA and Arab Youth Venture Foundation Launch Student Program,” news release 09-271, 7 December 2009, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/dec/HQ_09-271_Edu_Arab_Youth_SAA.html (accessed 16 December 2011).
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