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Prepare for the autumn full of STEM activities with STEM Alliance

02/09/2019

After a very productive and motivating summer period, STEM Alliance is entering a new academic year with big plans. A new calendar of online events, released recently by STEM Alliance and Scientix, includes chats for schools and webinars with representatives of companies such as Cisco, Bertschi or Vopak. Moreover, in the coming months STEM Alliance will cooperate even more closely with LEGO Education, organising plenty of activities to ignite student engagement in learning and to support educators.
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36 new lesson plans from the Scientix MOOC “STEM Is Everywhere!” are online!

02/09/2019

The Scientix MOOC “STEM Is Everywhere!” aimed to connect Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) classes with “real life” and help teachers integrate real-world problems into their STEM lessons and practices. During the course, participants had the chance to develop their own lesson plans, which now are available for everyone in the Scientix resources repository.
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A place for inspiration, innovation and exchange – the program of Educating the Educators III revealed!

19/08/2019

How do we best scale up professional development (PD) in maths and science education? This common question will be a starting point for fruitful discussion and exchanges of best practices for researchers, teacher educators, STEM PD centres, policy makers and business representatives from around the world who will gather at the University of Education in Freiburg, Germany on 7-8 October, 2019. The third edition of the Educating the Educators conference series is now only a couple of months away and the Organisation Committee is excited to present the program schedule to you!
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Students’ Mobile Apps Competition – submit your idea!

19/08/2019

Are you interested in developing mobile apps? Do you have an idea for an app with educational, learning or social networking purpose? Present your concept on the 3rd IMCL International Student Competition on Learning Technologies hosted by the 13th International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL2019)!
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Are you suited to space? Take NASA Astronaut Test!

23/07/2019

Do you have what it takes to stay in the zone in zero gravity, problem-solve in high-pressure scenarios or keep your cool in the cosmos? NASA’s new interactive quiz, Astronaut Aptitude Assessment, asks a series of questions based on NASA’s Astronaut Candidate requirements to determine your suitability for space. Find out whether you’ve got what it takes to be an astronaut!
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Six new bioeconomy teaching resources available in the BLOOM School Box!

23/07/2019

As a result of the BLOOM “Teach bioeconomy!” competition, launched as part of the STEM Discovery Week 2019, six new additional bioeconomy teaching resources are now available in the BLOOM School Box! The topics? Bioeconomy awareness; biotechnology techniques; bioenergy and our lives; the benefits of composting; and biofuel production from fruit waste.
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Teaching with Europeana: new inspiring learning scenarios every week!

05/07/2019

Are you looking for a diverse, open and regularly updated catalogue of learning scenarios? Teaching with the Europeana blog is made for you! Created as a part of the Europeana DSI-4 project, the blog provides a space for teachers to share their experience in implementing digital cultural heritage in their classroom. The blog is updated every week with two new learning scenarios and two stories of implementation, including STEM-related ones!
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Can you be “literate” in astronomy? Astronomy Literacy Booklet released by IAU

05/07/2019

The motto of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach is “Astronomy for All”. To make it happen, societies and citizens should be astronomically literate. But what does it mean for a person to be “literate” in astronomy? After years of discussions and debates over the essential things that an astronomically literate person should know, the “Big Ideas in Astronomy: A Proposed Definition of Astronomy Literacy” booklet has finally been released!
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Scientists of the future unveiled at the BP Ultimate STEM Challenge 2019!

24/06/2019

Sophia Rochfort and Freya Gillard, young scientists from Blundell’s School, UK, have won the BP Ultimate STEM Challenge, a competition that invites students aged 11-14 to put their STEM skills to the test by developing a solution to a real-world problem. They presented a measuring device designed for coffee machines which checks the cup size before pouring, cutting down on plastic pollution and one-use cups.
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Careers in STEM? Read Scientix feature in FUTURUM career guides!

20/06/2019

FUTURUM, a free magazine and online platform that seeks to encourage 11-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in STEM, interviewed Scientix Project Manager, Dr Agueda Gras-Velazquez, as a part of their career guide series.
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