Mathematics is not a popular subject. Pupils tend to dislike it, especially when they fail to obtain the desired academic results, and it can cause anxiety and even phobia. The difficulties they find are not only due to insufficient knowledge of the elements of maths, but also to the...
My four pupils and I had an opportunity to take part in the amazing Codecamp and Kodukup competition, hosted at the Microsoft Innovation center in Brussels on the 13-15th of October. The idea of the competition was to create (code) a computer game by using Microsoft´s KODU Game Lab...
In 2011 Nobel-prize winning physicist Carl Wieman published this article (1) in the prestigious journal Science. There is nothing remarkable that is what scientists do, the interesting part is that the article was not about the Bose-Einstein condensate, but about education. According to the study students learned much more from graduate...
Our pupils at the Technical College “Augustin Maior” in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) have been studying with Nanoyou resources, news and experiments; they have investigated with medical applications, electronics devices and computers to eventually put up presentations with all information learned in order to show to the other classes and show and...
Living in rural Iceland has never been easy. This is best demonstrated by Iceland’s population density of 3.1 /km2 compared to 73.4 /km2 in Ireland (which is rather smaller than Iceland) and 102 /km2 in Cuba (approx. the same size as Iceland). Living in Iceland has always revolved around the ever looming presence of death. This has also been...
How to connect human senses with jobs and careers? That was the challenge taken up by a French public organization called CCI, with roughly means the Chamber of the Commerce and Industry. Each year this organization manages to bring together students and entrepreneurs around workshops. During this year sessions,...
Chemistry is present in our everyday life. All matter is made up of chemical elements or compounds, and chemical reactions are responsible for the correct functioning of our body. In order to bring science closer to society and to promote science outreach, the Fundación Descubre created Clickmica in November...