Category: Admission

Welcome Pittsburgh IMPAQT students!

Ten students from CMU Pittsburgh arrived Saturday as part of the IMPAQT program. The students will spend the week learning about Qatar and visiting Doha landmarks like Souq Waqif, the…

Students travel and learn over spring break

CMU-Q students embarked on learning trips around the world over spring break, including destinations in North America and Europe. The largest contingent traveled to Silicon Valley with Maher Hakim, associate…

Doctor Disruption in Doha

The idea for Meddy came from a snippet of conversation Haris Aghadi overheard at a family gathering: could you recommend a good doctor? He had heard similar conversations for years—Aghadi,…

CMU-Q student researchers win for work in humanizing information technology

The sixth Undergraduate Conference in Information Systems (UCIS), held on February 27, focused on “Humanizing Information Technology (IT),” and submissions considered the evolving role of IT in all facets of…

More than 250 high school students compete in 1st round of Pi-Day at CMU-Q

The first round of the Pi-Day Mathematics Competition for high school students took place February 20. More than 250 students representing over 50 independent and international high schools came to…

Carnegie Mellon Qatar hosts high school workshops to give sneak peek into careers in business, science and tech

35% of incoming students participate in at least one outreach program DOHA, QATAR – Ahead of the March 1 admission deadline, Carnegie Mellon Qatar held a series of workshops to…

CMU-Q Trading Hackathon tests teamwork across disciplines

The Q-SmartLab Trading Hackathon took place last week, with team Polaris finishing on top. The winning team included Alfred Godwin Ravindrakumar, Anthony Lo and Yijun Dong. The competition took place…

CMU-Q creates kit to encourage experimental science in Qatari classrooms

Twenty-seven students from independent and private schools across Doha participated in the Biotechnology Explorers Program (BEP) last weekend, an outreach program that introduces students to biological sciences. The program is…

High schoolers buy low and sell high at Tajer workshop

On February 13, CMU-Q held the Tajer workshop, a daylong event for high school students to learn how financial markets work. Nearly 40 students representing 19 schools in Doha—both independent…

CMU-Q Winter Institute introduces 18 students to computer science

The second annual Winter Institute: Discovering Computer Science wrapped up last week, with 18 Qatari students attending the week-long workshop. The Winter Institute is an outreach program to introduce Qatari…