Climbing wall maintenance

Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital Parking and Bus Update

WEP events for the whole community

Halawani Cuisine and Ya Hala Remodeling at Discovery Square

The KAUST community answered this year’s call to artists for the 5th annual Celebrate Saudi Arabia Art competition with yet another vibrant array of inspiration. Some 68 pieces were submitted by 60 artists, in a variety of media – paintings, photographs and mixed media including pencil drawing, mosaic and an original Lego sculpture. This year’s show once again brought together artists of all nationalities across KAUST with a common purpose of sharing their view of this extraordinary country. The unique perspective of each artist created a fascinating exhibition of the familiar and the not so, giving each visitor to the exhibition the opportunity to see Saudi Arabia in myriad ways.

KAUST community volunteers and students from Thuwal have been doing a lot of chatting! Social Responsibility co-ordinated a series of ‘conversation clubs’ where intermediate and high school students from neighboring villages met with English speaking volunteers from the KAUST community for informal sessions, where the Thuwal students could practice their English skills.

KAUST community members are invited to attend a workshop hosted by Al-Faisalya Society’s SLEYSLA project.

We hope you were able to join in the Earth Day celebrations at the Harbor Sports Field recently. If you took part in the creation of the vertical garden or made a bag out of a recycled t-shirt then you were part of a collaboration between The KAUST School, Thuwal Schools, KAUST Gardening Club, Students’ Arts Group, Green Group and Social Responsibility.

Social Responsibility has been coordinating a series of Environmental activities working with Thuwal pupils as part of its Young Learners’ Development Program. Over two days in February, 46 students from the Intermediate and Secondary Schools in Thuwal visited KAUST for two events – a biodiversity tour at Safaa Golf Club and an informative walk through the Recycling and Reuse Centre.

The latest cohort of women from Thuwal and Qadimah has just completed Springboard Training at KAUST.

As part of its Capabilities Development Program, the Social Responsibility department of Strategic National Advancement sponsors the delivery of Springboard, a women’s development program comprising four workshops and a home study element, to women in Thuwal. Social Responsibility organized the first series of seminars in Thuwal in 2013, and has run a total of nine courses to date.

A highlight of KAUST Bike Week was the 5k Family Bike Tour on Friday February 16 and Social Responsibility and the KAUST community was delighted to welcome residents from the University's host town of Thuwal. The riders, aged 8-60, were all familiar with cycling, but it was a new experience to be part of such a large group and they very much enjoyed sharing the experience with the 300+ members of the KAUST community that took part.

Five Grade 11 students from The KAUST School joined up with peers at Thuwal School Intermediate and Secondary Schools for Girls on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 for a recycling awareness workshop, as part of the Environment element of KAUST’s Young Learners’ Development Program (YLDP).

Thuwal students and teachers from Grades 6-9 visited KAUST on Wednesday 7 February for a program of computer-oriented activities. Social Responsibility co-ordinated the visit with student and staff volunteers from the Computer Science Department. The first activity for the two groups, 20 female students and 21 male students, was a practical computer coding lesson

KAUST was delighted to welcome students and teachers from its neighboring villages of Thuwal and Qadimah to participate in this year’s Winter Enrichment Program (WEP). WEP is the largest of three Enrichment Programs that the University curates every year, each offering exhibitions, workshops, lectures and events linked to a theme of current global significance and led by eminent speakers from Saudi Arabia and around the world in the fields of science, business, education and culture.