National Science Fair to mark World Science Day for Peace and Development 2022 |09 November 2022
A National Science Fair to be launched by the Ministry of Education tomorrow, Thursday November 10, will commemorate World Science Day.
The Ministry of Education (MoE) is organising the fair in collaboration with the Seychelles National Commission for Unesco;the Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (D-STI) and the (MoE) National Science, Technology and Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Committee.
The theme for this year’s World Science Day is ‘Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development’.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) affirmed on December 2, 2021 that ‘…basic sciences are vital for advances in medicine, industry, agriculture, water resources, energy planning, environment, communications and culture’.
It was highlighted during the UNGA that more basic science is needed to achieve the 2030 Agenda and its 17 sustainable development goals. Therefore, there is a focus globally on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education to foster the development of project-based learning methods and research to encourage and stimulate students to apply knowledge acquired in the four subjects namely Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics to find solutions to real life problems.
In view of this development in STEM education as innovative strategies, the National STEM Committee of the Ministry of Education (MoE) finds it imperative to gradually convert the Science Fair into a STEM Fair.
This year, the Science Fair will showcase 24 science projects which State schools have been working on for the past two years. The DSTI will also display a few of the previous STEM projects and the most recent one with which the Seychelles Team participated in the Global Challenge in Switzerland this year.
The opening of the Science Fair will take place tomorrow at 9am at the Ministry of Education (MoE) Hall and the Seychelles Institute for Teacher Education (SITE). The public will have the chance to view the exhibition from 9am to 2.30pm on the same day.
On November 11, the exhibition will remain open until 12.30pm. This will be followed by a prize giving ceremony at 1.30pm at the SITE auditorium.
For more information about this event please contact the vice-chairman of the National STEM Committee, Donald Estico, on Tel:2570146 or Jeffrey Lagrenade, member of the National STEM Committee, on Tel: 2777208.
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