Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs 2014 Intel ISEF Educator Academy Los Angeles, California Action Plan – Slovenia 1
Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs High Level Goals What do you want to accomplish for your school, region or country? Look at long-term (3-5 years) and short-term goals (1-2 years) –Long term goals –Adjust Slovenian STEM competition rules to international standards; –Incorporate more hands-on approaches into K-12 curricula through STEM competitions –Put more emphasis on scientific method in high schools –Set up a national pool of mentors ready to guide students in science fair projects –Short term goals –Launch the nationwide science fair to serve as feeder for Intel ISEF (first year only Computer Science (CS), in the following years to expand in other STEM categories) –Affiliate that fair with Intel –Set up a SRC for the fair 2
Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs 3 Objectives How will you know you succeeded? Please list the results you want to see –The new fair gets affiliated with Intel ISEF –First year: 20 schools send their teams to the fair in the Computer Science category –To expand the scope of competition to at least 3-5 ISEF categories –From 2016 onwards: up to 100 % schools will participate
Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs Action Plan – Steps to Meet Your Goals and Objectives 4 Or use this Excel document and embed it into your plan
Intel ISEF Educator Academy Intel ® Education Programs 5 Reflection Key learnings from the Educator Academy What impressed us the most: -“The Teacher of the Year” – Jeffrey Charbonneau -“Indian Innovation Plan” – Sam Pitroda Which Shop Talks were the most beneficial for our team? -Science Review Committee – New Fairs -“Peru Experience” - Gisella Orjeda What would be improved? More information before the event in order to be better prepared What types of Shop Talks were missing? More information on how countries run science fairs (more practical advice and experience, especially for new countries)
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