HH Sheikha Moza Attends Texas A&M at Qatar's Celebration of 10 Years of Excellence

Doha, January 06 (QNA) - HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation (QF) attended today an event organized by Texas A&M University at Qatar to celebrate its 10-year anniversary of engineering a world of difference. The gala event was held Sunday night at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC). During the event, Texas A&M University honored HH Sheikha Moza and announced its support for Her Highness's 'Educate a Child' initiative, which seeks to deliver quality primary education to millions of children across the world. In a speech to the event, Her Highness said tonight's celebration holds special significance since it is dedicated to celebrate a decade of privileged partnership between Qatar and the Texas A&M University. This partnership yielded graduating engineers on a global level in Qatar, she said. Tonight's celebration appreciates these achievements and aspires for a better future by drawing a vision for a new level of ambition in the existing partnership between Qatar and the University, Her Highness added. The event served to mark a milestone decade in Qatar and an opportunity promote its mission of developing leaders of character who are dedicated to serving the greater good by presenting a resolution to Her Highness that supports her newly launched Educate a Child initiative. The resolution outlined Texas A&M at Qatar's dedication to partner with Educate a Child to engage Aggie engineering students in developing solutions for practical problems that hinder access to education through engineering design projects. The Educate a Child initiative seeks to deliver quality primary education to millions of children across the world and address challenges that keep 61 million children out of school because of extreme poverty, conflict, natural disaster, prejudice or any factor that can make them hard to reach by conventional means. The University is the first to offer public support for the newly launched initiative. In reply to the presentation of the resolution, Her Highness said, "This resolution sums up the essence of all that education City is about- equipping our young people with the skills and the knowledge to be global citizens and enabling them to make the world a better place." HH Sheikha Moza continued, "Through education, anything is possible. I look to Aggie students of today and tomorrow to rise to the challenge enshrined in this resolution". HE Dr Mohammed Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry for the State of Qatar and Texas A&M at Qatar Joint Advisory Board Chairman, spoke at the gala event and noted the University's successes over the past ten years. "Since 2007, more than 300 Aggie engineers have graduated from Texas A&M University at Qatar. This includes the first graduates from the master's program in chemical engineering," he said. "Texas A&M at Qatar is educating engineers who are contributing to Qatar's development and will lead the next generation of discovery in Qatar's knowledge-based economy." HE HBKU President and QF Vice President for Education Sheikh Dr. Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, delivered remarks noting the partnership between the University and QF and HBKU, saying, "I think we all have reason to look back with satisfaction on the first decade of partnership between Texas A&M University and Qatar Foundation." "The facts speak for themselves: five commencement ceremonies so far and graduating more than 300 engineers, almost half of them Qatari. Already we are seeing the results of the first Masters program, launched less than two years ago," he added. "Texas A&M has been a generous collaborator with external organizations through its research and outreach projects and it is helping build our new economy. In the coming years, more and more of our graduates will work in, and lead, our knowledge-based industries." Texas A&M at Qatar dean and CEO Dr Mark H. Weichold said the University seeks to be a strategic partner for Qatar's pursuit of its development goals and the Qatar National Vision 2030. "The University has made this nation's goals our own, as we strive to be a premier provider of engineering education, a leading contributor to knowledge globally and a valued resource to the State of Qatar." Texas A&M has built a world-class engineering program at