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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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STEM subjects in my school
by Carmen Sin
STEM activities are seen as successful ones,
especially for the 11th and 12th graders from my
highschool, ”Alexandru Marghiloman” in Buzău,
some of them changing their minds for their future
careers.
Our activities were made up by presentations of
STEM, brainstorming, experiments and
questionnaires, all these trying to make them more
aware of the opportunity they could have for their
careers and due to the lack of information to be in
danger of not knowing of Scientix, STEM, the sites
and portals made especially on this occasion.
The most challenging activity was the one that
gathered Maths, Physics, Biology and English, two
amazing classes, combining them and presented in
English - everybody was enchanted.
I also had a lesson with my colleague of Ch emistry,
Adriana Anghel for an Erasmus+ activity, and
again, it was the most enjoyalable and relaxing
class, even if it was... Chemistry class, but with
vivid presentations and experiments, things can
change!
Moreover, our STEM school group took part in the
Competition of Celebrating spring and STEM
organized by Scientix, as you can see in the photos.
Starting November 2017 up until May 2018,
students from Math/IT and Science classes took
part in an amazing project! In order to take part in
this event, I started with registering and
announcing the event both on Scientix home page
and on my school projects’ pannel. In fact the
project’s main activities started in November and
ended in February, but actually it continued towards
the end of the 2nd term, the students being
connected through the teacher and with the help of
the site we created.
Our objectives were:
1. introducing, presenting Scientix and STEM to my
11th grade students;
2. making them acquainted with the site and STEM
jobs;
3. working for the school event making
presentations on the topic – Scientix in my school.
My objectives were to introduce, present Scientix,
STEM to my students, to make them acquainted to
the site, to STEM and what it means and how they
can be connected to this, to meet a stakeholder in
order to see how relevant this topic can be,
discussion and information for their future.
Motivation
I chose to work with Maths/IT students because
their profile seems to me to be very appropriate for
STEM and Scientix, to be introduced into the world
of the best jobs paid related to STEM and to their
profile. My school is appropriate for such events and
projects since out of 820 students, approximately
360 of them are studying Maths/IT and
approximately 120 Science.
Students’ task was to find out, discover from
teacher’s presentation information about Scientix –
general information, projects, how STEM can help
them in their future, choosing the most appropriate
career for them. I tried to adapt to students’ needs,
finding a very close “match” between their favourite
pastime, profile and Scientix event from school. The
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