DIGITAL BULLETIN-STEM DISCOVERY WEEK 2019

STEM DISCOVERY WEEK 2019

STEM is cool. You can set the ground for a successful career with STEM education.

School year. 2018./2019.

April, 2019.

STEM DISCOVERY WEEK 2019 STEM Discovery Week is a joint international initiative that invites projects, organisations and schools across Europe and around the world, to celebrate studies and careers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

In education STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in all four specific disciplines in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.

The tagline for this year’s campaign “Best practices in using innovative STEM resources” with the aim to highlight best practices in current STEM teaching across Europe through using innovative resources.

The primary focus of this year's campaign, is to showcase how teaching materials and other learning resources are used in educational activities.

STEM Discovery Week activities and actions' map

Organising and sharing information about activities and actions in STEM education: Event details Title of the event: “Science Exhibition-Colors of customs and traditions“ Type of event: Exhibition Objective of the event: This event is a valuable contribution to the efforts for improving the STEM, popularize science, bring science closer and show science in a comprehensible way with STEM. Also, this event emphasise the role of students in creating a modern and efficient system that can contribute to the smart and sustainable growth of Croatia and Europe.

Including to the Map.

Overview of the event preparation: As part of regular teaching classes in teaching vocational subjects: Social Responsible Business, and Training Firms teacher Nada Ratković organized an extracurricular activity "Popularization of STEM". Students of my school decided to make a Public Exhibition and called it “Science Exhibition-Colors of customs� and for the purpose of promoting and popularizing science, cience, technology, engineering, mathematics and traditions.

With painting technique (pastel, watercolor, oil paint, collage) and drawing technique (pencil, pencils in color, charcoal, dry needle) pupils vision and reflection on colors transferred to paintbrush and paper. The students used various drawing and painting methods that best matched their personal style or work. The pupil were guide by the catchword "About colours are contemplating our ancestors, and today we also think about colors ". Inspired by the rich Cultural heritage, students made as the result of the work 11 beautiful paintings with the historical theme and motives of the City of Sinj, intertwined with the tradition and customs of beautiful Cetinska Krajina. The pupils also made promotional materials (posters, brochures, flyers and thanksgiving notes) for the exhibition visitors that they could take home for a gift as a souvenir.

Description of the event: For the first time in the High Vocational School Ban Josip Jelačić Sinj, on April 29. 2019. was organized STEM Discovery Week 2019 and held a STEM Event titled "Science ExhibitionColors of customs and traditions“, to popularize science, bring science closer and show science in a comprehensible way.

Participating in this event our views and reflections on STEM will be revealed to the interested audience in a new, unique and original way, through the exhibition. High Vocational School ban Josip Jelačić Sinj is situate in the Town of Sinj in Croatia. The school educates students from the age of 15 to 18 for various professions (economists, commercialists, tourist merchants, salespeople, chefs, waiters, hairdressers, beauticians). The school engaged in this interesting initiative by organising public exhibition. Exhibition is organized and head by teacher Nada Ratković and made by her students.

Name of the painting images: Sign-Sinj in the past, Alkar Dinko Šimunović, Kamičak, Alkar Dinko Šimunović, Church of the Miraculous Lady of Sinj, Kamičak, Alkar boy and horse, Alkar at the racetrack, Our Lady Procession, Sinj folk costume, Child Alka, Lowering the hoof from the spear, Sinjska Alka.

Images are expose in the atrium of school and will be remain after the event finish. The student preparations for the exhibition "Colors of customs and tradition" lasted for two month and is made by students from economist course (2.A, 3.A and 4.A) and the student's from commercialist course (3.B, 3.C).

The pupils also made promotional materials (posters, brochures, flyers and thanksgiving notes) for the exhibition visitors that they could take home for a gift as a souvenir. In the brochures, the students described the folk and life customs of our region.

These are customs related to childbirth, engagement and bridal customs, funeral customs. They have not forgotten the annual customs too: pre-Christmas and Christmas customs, carnival customs, lily and Easter customs and village “dernek� known as the "force". They presented our tradition in the leaflets: Sinjska Alka, Great Lady and City Museums: Museum of Sinjska alka and Museum of Cetinska Krajina. Thanksgiving cards were given to visitors by leaving the exhibition. The ceremony of the event began on April 29 at 9 am. with an opening ceremony of the exhibition and ended on April 30th. The pictures are still in the atrium of the school.

During the STEM Discovery Week 2019, students of the High Vocational School ban Josip Jelačić Sinj have prepared a rich program of the event with a variety of curiosities relating to the skills acquired in STEM and vocational education and training.

Our event is present to the students of higher grades of elementary school, high school students, child with special needs and a wider population to motivate young people to explore and acquire new knowledge.

This event is a valuable contribution to the efforts to improve the system of STEM and emphasise the role of students in creating a modern and efficient system that can contribute to the smart and sustainable growth of STEM in Croatia and Europe. In this way our school has become one of the many European participants who want to promote STEM in vocational education that develops creativity and innovative students, and leads to greater employment opportunities and extremely high quality.

Event organizer: Nada Ratković, prof. economic group of teaching subjects Srednja strukovna škola bana Josipa Jelačića Sinj Editor and Author: „STEM Discovery Week 2019“, Nada Ratković, prof.

In Sinj, April 30, 2019