About the Arab Youth Venture Foundation (AYVF):
AYVF is the Mid East pioneer in space education and outreach and STEM education. An education consultancy, idea factory and launch pad empowering aspiring engineers, technologists, and entrepreneurs. AYVF delivers extra-curricular training for K-12 and university students focused on youth career empowerment as well as professional development for STEM educators.
At the university level, AYVF's strategic overseas training practicums and internships support workforce development and dynamic careers with a focus on emerging GCC economic sectors such as aerospace, aviation, sustainable energy, water, power, nuclear, and ICT/cybersecurity.
AVYF is best known for its NASA innovative partnership and for the historic UAE NASA Research Fellows internship program. AYVF is Lockheed Martin Space Systems partner for innovation in the Middle East.
Since 2007, AYVF has directly served and inspired over five million youth ages 6 to 24 (predominantly 6 to 15 years old) across 103 nationalities. www.ayvf.org
About the Global Citizens Innovative Solutions SDGs Challenge “SDGs Challenge”
Focused on innovative solutions to the world's most pressing problems encapsulated in the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the SDGs Challenge is a dynamic, free, and impact driven activity in which citizens of any nationality, ethnicity, age, or gender are tasked to arrive at imaginative and viable solutions to any one of the SDGs by way of teamwork, diversity of ideas, and collaboration. www.sdgschallenge.org