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THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATIVE THINKERS His Royal Highness, Prince Joachim, is set to visit Skt. Josef’s International School in Roskilde. His visit is part of the National Science Festival, that has thousands of students across Denmark participating. PHOTOGRAPHS ISTOCK PHOTO
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THE NATURAL SCIENCE Festival, open to all schools across Denmark, is aimed at creating engaging experiences with science among children and young people. The festival takes place in September each year, and has over 150,000 participants. Schools dedicate anything from a few hours to a full week to focus on science. This years’ theme is ‘The Final Frontier’. To honour the event, Skt. Josef ’s will hold a school-wide science fair with over 1,000 students involved in a fun day showing off their skills and talents in science. The open day will allow parents to come along and see a wide range of projects on September 27. HRH Prince Joachim, in his capacity as protector of the sciences in Denmark, will visit the school science fair in support and promotion of the sciences. Harry Osborne, a science teacher at Skt. Josef’s School, believes that “science is all about discovery and engaging in memorable experiences. Science has such a positive effect on student’s everyday lives and their well-being. Science is about being a part of something bigger.”
YOUNG SCIENTIST COMPETITION Skt. Josef’s School is always heavily represented in the Unge Forskere (Young Scientist) competition which is Denmark's largest science-based talent contest. It is a competition for children and young people in primary and secondary school, who love science and technology. Skt. Josef’s had 11 teams represent the school at the finals (in April) out of a total of 50, the highest representation of any school. One of the final projects was a devise for the household glass recycling container. The device absorbs the noise of recycled objects being dropped into a bin, so that it does not bother neighbours when the likes of bottles are smashed together. The inventors, Adam and Johan explained, “The
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Dom is the Head of Departidea came because we live next to a container. Therefore, we have tried to develop a kind of sock, that is, a kind of tube of some elastic material that the bottles must slip through. It creates friction and slows down the bottles on the way down, and makes less noise when it hits the bottom.” Two science teachers at Skt. Josef’s, Ole Grevald and Caroline Matthiassen, were also awarded the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Natural Science Teachers’ Prize. The award worth DKK 250,000 recognises extraordinary teaching effort to build and promote science talent at the school. The two teachers helped to create the Science Talent programme, and also prepare students for the Young Scientist competition.
STEM Last year, Skt. Josef ’s school started a STEM club, an after-school programme for students from both the International and Danish departments. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and
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SKT. JOSEF'S SCHOOL IS ALWAYS HEAVILY REPRESENTED IN THE UNGE FORSKERE (YOUNG SCIENTIST) COMPETITION WHICH IS DENMARK'S LARGEST SCIENCE-BASED CONTEST.
ment at Skt. Josef’s International School in Roskilde. He has over twenty years of experience in education in different countries and across various school systems. Skt. Josef’s International School is located in beautiful
Mathematics. The club gives children the opportunity to freely explore interesting concepts where the students plan, develop and improve their designs and inventions. Students have designed and built a soda dispensing unit, and a coin sorting machine. Skt. Josef’s Roskilde International School has limited spaces available for this school year. Contact Rikke Holm on +45 46 30 46 05 or visit sktjosefs.com for more information. THE-INTL
Roskilde providing quality education for children aged five to 16 (Year 1 to Year 11).
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