SCRF workshop: Students blend DIY skills with recycling principles

Sharjah24: Schoolchildren turned inventors as they made the prototype of a telephone at a workshop called The First Phone at the 16th edition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF 2025). Using a DIY kit, they discovered how sound waves move through wires and help people communicate with each other.
Trainer Asmaeel Alahmed from UAE-based Aufuq AlEbdaa centre first briefed the children about 19th century American scientist Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone that revolutionised communication. He invited one of the young girls to see if she could hear him on a phone prototype he had created and then asked the Grade 5 girls to make one for themselves using the material provided.