The first STEM week was held from 9th to 13th of October 2023. Croatian project partners Primary School Lučko, Primary School Vugrovec-Kašina, Primary School Nikola Tesla and the Development Agency Zagreb, organized numerous fun STEM activities with students, teachers and educational workers in order to present the currently achieved project results to Norvegian experts and members of the fifth project partner Åpenhet AS, a GovTech company from Oslo.
Each school presented curricular and extracurricular STEM activities through practical workshops, experiments and games with presentations made by enthusiastic and cheerful STEMfluencers from partner schools. In Nikola Tesla Primary School, the focus was on workshops in the field of forensics, robotics and makerspace. They delighted their Norwegian guests with their ability to determine their blood group through tests, analyze fingerprints and demonstrate through experiments how to analyze the composition of bones. The younger ages showed their dexterity in making various models within the makerspace activities. Primary School Lučko presented school STEM activities related to the newly built STEM garden, organized a workshop led by young chemists who presented the process of distilling aromatic herbs as well as making scented creams, salves and hydrolats. With the guidance of a technical culture teacher and teamwork, they printed T-shirts with the logo of the Åpenhet AS company on a new sublimation printer and thus delighted their Norwegian guests.
The activities of the third day of the STEM week took place at the Vugrovec-Kašina elementary school, where on that day the classical classes were replaced by full-day fun STEM workshops in the fields of robotics, astronomy, STEAMy English, DigIT, and Eco group activities in the indoor and outdoor STEM garden with the support of representatives of the Faculty of Agriculture Zagreb, with which the school has a long-standing cooperation.
In addition to the school activities in which they participated, the Norwegian representatives had the opportunity to visit the Technical Museum of Nikola Tesla, the Zagreb Observatory and the company Rimac, whose representatives made a commendable effort to present the best in the fields of science, astronomy, technology and engineering, which created the potential for some new collaborations. The second STEM week and the final conference of the project are expected early next year.
