Jubilee School’s ‘Tech Girls’ showcase their projects

AMMAN — With much enthusiasm, girls at the Jubilee School on Sunday presented their projects in domains usually perceived as “male-dominated”. 

The projects are part of the “Tech Girls” programme, funded by the US embassy in Amman, which has managed to unleash the “tech” side of girls during its three years of implementation. 

The students briefed US Ambassador to Jordan Alice G. Wells on their projects, which varied from greenhouse experiments and biological control of plants to game-based engineering challenges, during her visit to the school on Sunday. 

While interacting with the students, Wells noted that she sees in them “not only the future of Jordan, but the world”. 

Jubilee School students have been showing “distinguished” abilities in the programme, which targets 16-year-old girls, according to the school’s website.

“The project entails sending pioneering students to the US to visit companies like Yahoo and Google. Jubilee students ensure at least two seats each year,” Jubilee School Director Suha Jouaneh said. 

Jouaneh noted that the school perceives itself as an education “incubator” that seeks to foster the talents of its students. 

Around 450 to 500 students in the 9th to 12^th grades, both boys and girls, are enrolled in the King Hussein Foundation’s Jubilee School.

Established in 1977, the nonprofit independent secondary school has created a “distinctive” educational model that is considered the first in the region to nurture the abilities of outstanding students according to “cutting-edge” pedagogies, according to its website.    

“Its students, who come from all over Jordan, consistently score among the top 10 per cent at the nation’s standard exams, and attend the best universities worldwide,” the website said.