The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics was pleased to be among the judges at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar’s “Meeting of the Minds” event held on Tuesday, 29 April 2013. This high-profile annual event highlights research projects conducted by undergraduate and postgraduate students at the university. At the end of the event and on behalf of the Minister of Development Planning and Statistics H.E. Dr. Saleh Al Nabit, the following five research projects were awarded the Ministry’s prizes for being in-line with Qatar’s National Development Strategy 2011-2016. While one of the selected research projects is related to health, two projects relate to education & training, and two projects relate to information technology. 1- Morphology of Pathogenic Fungi in the Qatari Clinical Setting.  Author: Fatima Al-Saygh 2- Automated Course Scheduling.Author: Aniish Sridhar 3- Seeing is Learning: Accessible Technologies for Universal Learning.Author: Kenrick Fernandes 4- Teaching / Learning with iPads.Author: Aliya Hashim 5- DREAM: Distributed RDF Engine with Adaptive Query Optimisation and Minimal Communication. (Postgraduate research)Author: Dania Abed Rabbou