breaking through boundaries in (and with) science education
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Presentation from the Digital Storytelling, Crowdsourcing and Science Education for International Research and Training symposium, August 2013, School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland.TRANSCRIPT
Breaking through boundaries in (and with) science education
Ilkka Jormanainen Executive Director
Joensuu Science Society [email protected]
SciFest in a nutshell • International science and
technology festival • Organized in Joensuu
since 2007 • Idea ”imported” from
South Africa • Four days, 8600 visitors
(2012) • 80+ workshops, lectures,
competitions, theatre, etc…
• SciFest is much about going beyond conventional boundaries
Breaking the attitudes • Who says that teenage girls
are not fascinated about science, or that kids from less developed countries could not master technology?
Breaking the distances • The longest (?) tug-of-war in the world
between Finland and South Africa
Breaking the language barriers
• Their English may not be very fluent, but still Taiwanese students surprise us year after year
Breaking the boundaries of the earth
• Dr. Harrison Schmitt went to moon with Apollo 17 and came to SciFest 2009 to tell us about it
Breaking out from the comfort zone
• Science must be taken out from the labs and chambers, and it must be enjoyable and concrete for kids and adults too!
www.scifest.fi/welcome