Change Point Team: Changing Their Region
“Change Point” team, 3rd B Scientific Lyceum, IIS “Fermi” Alghero, won the ASOC competition on 10thJune 2020 representing the Sardinia region.
Posts Tagged ‘Competition’
Scientix Ambassadors and their students rocking national and international science competitions
If there is one great thing about working with Scientix Ambassadors, it is keeping up with their amazing activities and restless passion to prove to the future generation how cool STEM subjects are! Each Scientix Ambassador finds many creative and innovative ways to motivate students to learn more about...
Your favourite science books!
23 April has been recognized as the World Book and Copyright Day by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). On 4 April 2017, Scientix published eight great science books selected by its Scientix Ambassadors to give everyone the opportunity to read some (or all) of them...
Course en cours: A year to create the future race car!
Image: Mohammed Oubella Course en Cours (Race in Class) is an original teaching method focused on Science and Technology (secondary and high schools) launched in 2006 by Renault and Dassault System. During the school year, teams composed of 4 or 6 students imagine, design, construct, test, and finally make...
First LEGO League – a competition to inspire interest in STEM
Image: pixabay.com There are several approaches to the popularization of STEM subjects and STEM careers. Inquiry based science education, citizen science and a stronger cooperation between research institutes, the industry and schools is among the many suggested and tried. One of the most successful of these is the introduction...
The success of robots at school
On Wednesday 10th of June, a competition was held in my school. What was it all about, you may ask? Robots! I mean a competition where robots are fighting against each other, the ultimate goal being to push contenders out of the ring. There are two points that I’d...
A competition to arouse interest in physics and chemistry
Image: Shutterstock/Volt Collection Let’s face it: physics and chemistry are not considered as major subjects for most pupils in lower secondary schools in France. Not so surprising, as pupils are only granted one hour and a half lesson per week from Grade 6 to Grade 9, which is hardly...
A success story: Finnish students won European nanotechnology competition
The Nano Science Club of Nisulanmäki School from Finland took part in the European Distilled Nanoideas competition with their Youtube video and won the first price in the category of 13-15 year-old students. The humouristic video deals with a futuristic targeted anti-cancer drug, which can tell the difference between cancer and healthy...