Education for the future has a new code: STEAM. It is in this spirit that Clever Play was founded. It is Bahrain’s first specialized STEAM education service provider. To encourage young students to explore and embrace the possibility of pursuing a career in STEM, we lend our stimulating and supportive environment right from early childhood. Clever Play was built on the need to spark, inspire and nurture kids’ interest in STEAM in order to build a pipeline of talent. It answers the call for generational sustainability of skills through child-friendly training in the FUNdamentals of the 21st Century economy. The advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is inviting critical need to update skills and competencies to adapt to the swiftly evolving technologies and work landscape of the Digital Age. Imperative to this action is the promotion of the necessary training in STEM subjects beginning in early education to arrest youth unemployment due to outdated skills. In 2017, only 20% of Bahrainis are pursuing degrees in STEM. Most children are bored with classroom science even though they are naturally curious about bubbles and rockets. We are injecting a shift in paradigm for STEM with Arts to grow in the hearts of children. Education is the key to sustainable development. It is here that we strive every day to serve best.

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• Bahrain

• Youth

We have started key partnerships in various sectors and is currently undertaking growing collaborations and expanding activities with government and corporate entities in Bahrain. We are putting the final touches on a national movement that we will start after summer that aims to teach 1,000 Bahraini girls aged 7-14 to learn to code. The initiative is endorsed by the Supreme Council for Women and Zain Telecom and will take place from September to December 2019. Outside Bahrain, we are putting together an extensive summer engagement with the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Ithra in Saudi Arabia. Looking ahead in terms of our tech education and gender equality aspirations, we are currently building the infrastructures to start the very first non-governmental coding-for-girls initiative in Bahrain.

It answers the call for generational sustainability of skills through child-friendly training in the FUNdamentals of the 21st Century economy.

• Basic literacy • Education/training • E-literacy • Gender • Life-long learning • Youth