Inspiring Future Innovators BY MUNA AL-ALUL
Last fall, King’s Academy welcomed an exciting new collaboration with Samsung Electronics Levant that is developing students’ skills in coding, programming and robotics — Samsung Innovation Campus.
Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC) is an information, communication and technology (ICT) education initiative offered globally by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the South Korean multinational electronics corporation and one of the world's largest technology companies. King’s Academy is the first school in Jordan to offer the program. In the first stage of the collaboration, software engineers from Samsung Levant’s Research and Development Center provided training and mentoring to 26 King’s students over the course of a semester. Students worked on developing core competencies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), coding and
programming, in addition to a range of soft skills, guided by their King’s Academy teachers and Samsung mentors. According to President of Samsung Levant Hendrick Lee, the goal of SIC is to foster talented youth, enhance their employment prospects, and help them gain practical education in technologies. “We are keen to give opportunities to all people, especially youth, to be involved in the IT industry,” says Lee. “The SIC equips students with the ability to recreate and apply the acquired knowledge, thereby enhancing their competency in the real-life job market and helping students to grow into wellrounded professionals equipped with robust skills that are in high demand.”
Students receive awards and certificates at the Samsung Innovation Campus closing ceremony.
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Students enrolled in the program represent a diverse cross-section of the student body at King’s Academy, with both female and male students across different grades and nationalities, who also ranged in skill level in the subject matter from beginner to more advanced. To ensure that all students benefited fully from the program, Samsung provided bespoke training to the more advanced students while providing extra support to the beginners. “Before I joined, I didn’t know anything about Python [a high-level programming language] or how to program a robot or how programming languages work,” says Aisha Aliu ’25, who describes herself as a beginner