G6-8 STEM Activities

Offered in Cycles 1, 2, 3 & 4

ROV - Remotely Operated Vehicles (underwater robots)

MATE - Marine Advanced Technology Education.

In Spring 2023, KAUST will host the 1^st MATE ROV Regional competition in Saudi Arabia. Be part of the history. Join a team, build your robot and compete at the event. Three vehicle classes will be competing – Scout and Navigator for Grade 6-8 and Ranger for Grades 9-12. The winning Ranger team will have the chance to compete at the International ROV MATE competition held every year in June in the USA.

Scout ROV

Offered in Cycle 2

Meet the Sponsors Video

If you’ve ever wanted to fly drones, then this club is for you. When you come to the Intro to Drones Club, you’ll learn how to fly a Tello drone remotely and how to maintain them so that they continue to fly even after the occasional crash landing. You’ll also learn how to write code which you will test in a flight simulator, and if everything looks good, you’ll upload your code to one of our drones so that you can see your coding skills come to life during flight challenges. Our drones can be programmed using Block, Python, or JavaScript, which means this club is accessible to everyone. No flight experience necessary. No coding experience is required.

Offered in Cycles 1 & 2 (each cycle is an individual program)

Meet the Sponsors Video

Founded in 1984, Science Olympiad is one of the premier science competitions, providing standards-based challenges from a variety of science disciplines. The challenges will involve practical learning as well as having a lot of fun. It will not repeat work completed in Science class in the MYP at TKS but will perfectly complement it. Only join if you want to get excited about science!

Offered in Cycles 1 & 2 (students must commit to both cycles at the start)

Meet the Sponsors Video

This activity will meet two days per week and will be taking part in team and challenge based tasks. In TKS robotics, students engage in hands-on STEM experiences, building confidence, growing their knowledge and developing habits of learning. TKS robotics looks to inspire youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics.

TKS robotics will look to have a number of culminating events using the First Lego League (Challenge) to facilitate a local TKS competition and potentially becoming involved in other regional competitions and/or tournaments.

Offered in Cycle 1

In a world of technology, coding and its languages are part of a world that too few of us know. And when most of our world is run by code, it is vital that we learn the language of computers. Which is why we created Coding Club for Middle Schoolers! If you want to learn coding, join us!

This student-led club will be using Code.org to learn the very basics of code. And slowly, we will introduce you to writing programs. We will be working together and start to learn about the world of programming. And together, we will begin the journey of learning to code.

Offered in Cycle 3 & 4

Meet the Sponsors Video

Come and join us as we learn how to grow plants without soil in a hydroponic system! You will have a ‘hands-on’ practical experience in learning how this system works. You will also learn how to care for the plants and ensure that they get all the nutrients needed to grow well.

Please note that this activity will be based in the Gardens Elementary School Elemex (upstairs).

Offered in Cycle 3

Design a playground:

Join Ms Allsopp in designing a playground that could be used by Middle Schoolers at TKS.

You would be expected to attend every Monday flex block.

The aim is to design and plan an outside space for middle schoolers.