Action Plan Intel ISEF 2008 Educator Academy May 2008 Sri Lanka

2 High Level Goals Long term goals (3-5 years) –Every school in the country to participate at the National Science and Engineering competition (5,000 students from 10,000 schools). –Make research based projects an important part of school curriculum. Short term goals (1-2 years) –Promote Intel ISEF among schools. –Strengthen local competitions with workshops. –Win an award at Intel ISEF 2009.

3 Ways to identify our success –Increase in the number of competitors to 5,000 in five years. –All projects based on scientific research methodology. –Increase in quality of projects submitted. –Win an award at Intel ISEF Objectives

4 Action Plan ActionMeasure success?Who’s Responsible? By when? Promote ISEF.More children participating at local fairs. MoE/NSF/IESL/ Intel June 2008 Improve the SLSEF booklet.Everyone can understand the requirements clearly and prepare their projects as per the guidelines. NSF/IESLJune 2008 Workshop for Science Review Committee. All projects reviewed without any ambiguity. MoE/NSF/IESL/ Intel June 2008 Cabinet paper to setup a official committee to make SLSEF an annual calendar event. Additional support to improve local competitions government support. MoE/NSF/IESLJune 2008

5 Action Plan… ActionMeasure success?Who’s Responsible? By when? Identify potential group of teachers as key promoters within schools and Workshop for them as local facilitators and judges. To promote SLSEF among school children and everyone to understand the process and can teach the others. NSF/IESL /Intel July 2008 Conduct Junior Inventor of the Year (JIY) competition. Increased number of competitors at JIY. IESLOctober 2008 Conduct Science Research Competition (SRPC) competition. Increased number of competitors at SRPC. NSFNovem ber 2008 Conduct SLSEF.Select two Winners and an Observer for ISEF and felicitate teachers. NSF/IESLDecem ber 2008

6 Action Plan… ActionMeasure success?Who’s Responsible? By when? Re-Affiliate SLSEF with Intel ISEF. Signing of MoU and completing ISEF affiliation. IntelOctober 2008 Harness private sector support. Sponsorships to support student and local competition activities. IESL.Novem ber 2008 Prepare winners of local competitions for ISEF. Projects of Intel ISEF standard. NSF/IESL/IntelJanuary - April 2009 Sponsor winners to attend Intel ISEF. Students participate at the Intel ISEF Intel.May 2009

7 Intel ISEF Educator Academy Reflection –Key learning from the Educator Academy Various local fair models and methodologies used by different countries. –Most beneficial Shop Talks Affiliating new science fairs – Sharon Snyder. Encouraging and mentoring research based science/engineering projects – Dr. Arnab Bhattacharya. –Types of Shop Talks missing How local ISEF Workshops are conducted.

8 Sri Lanka Team Prof. M. T. M. Jiffry –National Science Foundation (NSF), Sri Lanka –Chairperson, Advisory Committee of NSF –Chairperson, Science Review Committee of SLSEF Mr. Jayavilal Meegoda –Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) –Chairperson, “Junior Inventor of the Year” Competition Mr. Priyantha K. Weerabahu –Intel, Sri Lanka –Education Program Manager

9 Mr. Anura Dissanayake –Project Director –Secondary Education Modernization Project (SEMP) –Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka MoE Guest & Team Member