{"title":"Science Centers as an Essential Tool for AI Pre-College Education in Developing Countries","authors":"A. Elsayed","doi":"10.1109/gcaiot53516.2021.9692949","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Despite cultural and social variation between different communities, science centers provide motivating and enriching environments for learning. Immediate impact can be exciting, but the long-term effects on learning and motivation are more significant, especially while including AI related programs. Due to many problems that are facing formal educational systems, especially in developing countries, informal education is expected to complement the formal system, mainly with technological fields, at an affordable price. The long-term impact is to get students involved in science as a lifelong learning process outside the classroom, and expected to result in creating the critical mass of youth who are interested in S&T. Moreover, changing the culture of entrepreneurship and youth to be scientific oriented and educational focused is crucial in upgrading the quality of the regional potential HR.","PeriodicalId":169247,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/gcaiot53516.2021.9692949","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Despite cultural and social variation between different communities, science centers provide motivating and enriching environments for learning. Immediate impact can be exciting, but the long-term effects on learning and motivation are more significant, especially while including AI related programs. Due to many problems that are facing formal educational systems, especially in developing countries, informal education is expected to complement the formal system, mainly with technological fields, at an affordable price. The long-term impact is to get students involved in science as a lifelong learning process outside the classroom, and expected to result in creating the critical mass of youth who are interested in S&T. Moreover, changing the culture of entrepreneurship and youth to be scientific oriented and educational focused is crucial in upgrading the quality of the regional potential HR.