Education
BY ASIA ARMOUR
Students write code and build robots at this STEM- focused learning facility.
SMART Core Labs provides education on STEM subjects, robotics, web development, arti cial intelligence and more.
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SMART Core Labs looks to make learning accessible It’s taken seven years for SMART Core Labs to amass 300 students per week at its Pearland learning facility, owner Hamid Ali said.
Owner Hamid Ali said he is focused on cultivating the student experience at SMART Core Labs.
Python ... is pretty amazing,” he said. The instructors go beyond the STEM subjects to teach web development and arti cial intelligence, which Ali said are also skills necessary to equip students for a constantly evolving world. The impact Ali said he has considered franchising the business to put locations in more areas of Greater Houston, but right now, he wants to maintain a focus on student experience over rapid expansion. “I don’t want this to become a kind of machine, ... I look at everything as a parent. Would I send my kids there, what do they achieve from that?” Ali said. “For me, for all my instructors and my sta , this is more of a passion.”
His primary focus is providing accessibility to learners of all ages and abilities, as these are the tools needed to excel in school and even further into their careers, he said. What they do SMART Core Labs starts teaching kids as young as ve years old scratch-coding and robotics, Ali said. His curriculums were developed by professionals from NASA and Rice University, he said. His current instructors are educators, with some even trained in special education. “For an eight- or nine-year-old to be coding in
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