Erasmus + «F.I.N.D» week
A wonderful week has ended. A week full of FIND. Our school hosted our European friends from 5 countries (Italy, Malta, Norway, Poland, the UK) from the 2nd until the 7th of April. 20 teachers and 25 students met in Patras in order to take part in the 2nd project meeting and the 2nd learning activity of the European Erasmus+ program by the title «F.I.N.D» Future Inventors ? New Discoveries which is based on STEAM teaching methods.
In the project meeting, the results of some activities of the find project that have already been completed, were analyzed. The project?s course was discussed and the next actions and transnational activities were scheduled.
In the frameworks of the learning activity, the hosted students were divided into teams. One or two students from our school?s robotic team were assigned the role of the coordinator. Each team received a scenario-problem. In order to solve the problem they had to build a robot first and then, program it to execute the commands given. Our computer lab was on fire! All the students were very excited to work on the project. They worked together and exchanged opinions. They were puzzled and forced to experiment, and in the end, everyone came out a winner. We are all so proud of them!
On Tuesday, we visited «Charilaos Trikoupis» bridge where we watched a video with information on its construction and we took a tour around the exhibition centre. After that, an engineer of ?Olympia Odos? welcomed us at Rio and gave us information on the highway of West Greece.
A conference was held on Thursday in Patras science centre. Its title was ?Let?s F.I.N.D a better future?. Students and teachers met at the science centre at 8AM.
During speeches, students were divided into teams, observed and interacted with the exhibits, chose a problem, they discussed it, solved it and presented it at the end of the conference. After these presentations, the robotics teams presented their findings.
The students who participated will be ambassadors of what they witnessed in Greece when they return to their home countries and they will communicate their experience with other students in their school.
Of course during this weekly visit, we visited the Acropolis, Delfoi and Ancient Olympia!
It was a magical experience! Thank you to everyone involved!
It was a fantastic week!