Who are we?
Science Camp is an innovation space and the first Iraqi Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) that supports STEM education according to MIT standards, and a robotics lab registered with the Federation of Iraqi Industries. The Science Camp offers students, graduates, researchers, innovators, and technical entrepreneurs two main values:
1- A supportive team and a community of experts and those interested in various technical disciplines within the framework of a supportive and friendly global culture of innovators 2 – Advanced industrial infrastructure of machines, devices, and laboratories of various uses to provide speed and accuracy in the production of prototypes for innovations and the next generation of pioneering products and the completion of the design and production of postgraduate research projects and provide them as a tangible product on the ground.
The Science Camp transforms the mental images of designers into a tangible product by hand. We support the originality of Iraqi industrial design with 3D industrial digital design training that establishes the next generation of Iraqi industries with Iraqi ideas and designs using advanced 3D programs, automated systems, and advanced electronic minds.
Our vision
Iraq is going through a major transformation in the economic, educational, social, and other fields, and we as Iraqi innovators want to take our role in shaping these transformations to suit local requirements and in the fields in which we excel, such as technology, digital manufacturing, programming, robotics, reverse engineering and digital transformations in general. Employing technology and innovation in meaningful technology-based entrepreneurship that provides solutions to local and global issues is our way to reform the industrial sector in particular and the economy in general, build economic stability for the youth and innovators class and activate interactive education for applied sciences STEM Education, and we rely on our international network of relationships with our peers from the Global Maker Movement and the Fab Lab network to accelerate the production of technical solutions through technology import and scientific partnerships.
Founder
Nawres Arif
- industrialist, painter, and sculptor who wanted his sculptures to move so he made them robots, despite his graduation from pharmacy school, but his passion for industrial design, where he self-taught 3D design and mastered it, blending science and art, starting from it to the world of industrial design, digital manufacturing, and 3D printing, where he excels in the science of Digital Fabrication, which is the science of transforming mental images into tangible products.
- Selftaught in electronics, he designed the first homemade interactive Motion Capture suit, which was the subject of his stand at TEDx Baghdad 2013.
- He founded the Science Camp by sharing his own workshop and a space of his house with local innovators to be the first actual Iraqi Maker space and digital Fab Lab in 2013 to put Iraq on the global map for the first time.
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the German Global Innovation Cluster organization registered in Berlin, Germany.
- Exclusive partner of the FIRST Global Organization, the sponsor of the Robotics Olympiad to build the Iraqi team since 2017.
- Adopts the concepts of entrepreneurship as a suitable solution to correct the youth compass towards investing in the technological private sector.
- He led the process of designing and producing protective masks during the 2020 coronavirus crisis, where he produced more than 13,000 protective masks in the science camp and distributed them to medical personnel in Iraq his design was approved in 6 other countries, and his activity was documented in the Viral Design book printed in Spain.
- His efforts in building community peace and redefining society based on his scientific skills were documented in the book COUNTERING HATE printed in the United States of America.
- President of the Alumni Association for American Cultural Exchange programs for the four southern governorates, where he delivers a cultural and historical message about Iraqi society and its values and concepts corrects the stereotypes related to wars in Iraq, and works to import technology and develop education in the field of applied sciences STEM and interactive education.
- – He created the first production line for educational robots in Iraq from his design and manufacturing with his team at the science camp, aiming to lead a digital transformation in applied and interactive education in Iraq by capitalizing on the visual programming revolution that makes learning to program robots in hours instead of months and years.