10:30 - 10:40
Shell NXplorer Contester 1: Al Saad Plan
Cyperaceae is a common weed found in farms and abundant in hot and temperate regions. The plant
has dense underground swellings and fibrous roots in addition to tubers and green leaves. Local
people in Ibri called this plant as jinx, and this plant was known as a very harmful and useless
plant. Those students re-named it as Al-Saad plant and started to investigate the positive side.
The smart students were able to Exploit the plant and manufacture various products such as
Medicated powder and oils.
Contester:
Fatima bint Qais School
10:40 - 10:50
Shell NXplorer Contester 2: Wahaj Team
Making the most of the Solar energy available in Oman, Um Al Fadhil School through their project
‘Wahaj’, have encouraged the local community to rely on solar energy as they
installed solar panels in the road. They already secure lights in 4 Km in their village, and
they opened an online store to sell solar power items.
Contester:
Um Al Fadhil School
10:50 - 11:00
Shell NXplorer Contester 3: Al Amal Primary School- Drop Project
Al Amal Primary School has introduced the use of artificial intelligence to distill sea water
for farm irrigation. The idea of this innovation focused on the exploitation of the sea area and
its enormous energies, the distillation of its water, and the use of technology in building
farms for greenhouses in the seas as a technical system
11:00 - 11:10
Shell NXplorer Contester 4: Á Sultan School
Shell NXplorers students of A’Sultan Qaboos School for boys carried out research on how to
keep water tanks clean and urged the community to maintain the same through their project,
‘My tank is clean’.
The project aims to obtain clean water from the tank and spread the culture of the necessity of
cleaning the tank periodically and continuously in Al Buraimi Governorate, with a set of data
and facts and examining samples before and after cleaning
11:10 - 11:30
Shell NXplorer Contester 5: Abi Bin Thabet School
Abi Bin Thabit Students, established the growth, care and distribution of the Thyme plant in
Oman. They considered this plantation as another income resource for the community because its
high value in the market.
Contester:
Abi Bin Thabet School
11:30 - 11:40
Nxplorers program contest 6:
The idea of this project revolves around collecting dew drops and making use of them, because
the area is characterized by continuous fog, especially in the central governorate. They
collected dew drops on a cold surface, and then have it in containers to filter it from
Impurities and dust.
They’re assuming that if they put a square piece of glass 8 cm x 8 cm and put it for
thirty minutes with continuous fog for two hours, they will have a pure water of approximate 600
milliliters per hour
Contester:
Hajj School
11:40 - 11:50
Nxplorers program contest 7:
The young talented girls from Safiya Bint Khattab School have found an innovative way to reduce
the water needed to irrigate crops via their project "Watertage". After their study, they found
out that using soil layers between two agricultural soils, “the agricultural soil is
composed of clay soil and organic fertilizer, so that the sandy soil’’ contributes
to preserving water from evaporation.
Contester:
Safiya Bint Khattab School
11:50 - 12:00
End of Shell INxplorer program