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I am a physics teacher. World is changing so I try to promote innovative educational science programs to the young generations.

STEM DISCOVERY WEEKS IN ONICESCU

Posted on 29/04/2022 by paunmadalinadaniela

Since 2018, we have organized in Onicescu National College from Bucharest an exhibition of multidisciplinary projects. The purpose of this project ”STEM DISCOVERY WEEKS IN ONICESCU-2022” is to promote an educational environment capable of providing students quality education. The activities took place between 1 and 14 of April, 2022.
Organizer: prof. Paun Madalina
High school students

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

1. Encouraging high school students to get involved in scientific projects and try to discover their future career. 2. Encouraging high school students to work in a team and to share their experience with schoolmates.

“STEM DISCOVERY WEEKS IN ONICESCU”, April 1-14, 2022:

1. “STEM for all” (Thursday, April 7, 2022) – fair of scientific projects, 2. “Our future careers” (Tuesday, April 12, 2022 and Saturday, April 9, 2022) – meetings with students of different faculties and a visit to the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 3. “7 Locks” (Saturday, April 9, 2022) – a game “Escape Room”. All activities have tried to encourage creativity, teamwork, respect for people and a greater closeness to science and technology.

1. SCIENCE PROJECT FAIR ”STEM FOR ALL” IN ONICESCU

Three ninth grade students performed experiments that described the levers of the human body. They started from the idea that man created many devices using his body. Probably looking at his arms, he noticed how he could throw various objects. Looking at his foot, he noticed how he could keep his balance. And so the levers appeared. Two tenth graders presented experiments with magnetic fields and demonstrate the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. Many visitors were interested in their experiments. A brave eleventh grader introduced notions of general relativity (the curvature of the space) using a simple curved surface and a ball. Because they wanted to solve physics problems more easily, a few ninth graders made a software that calculates the fall time and speed in case of free fall of bodies from various heights.

Many passionate school students in electronics and robotics presented various types of machines. Some ninth grade students have made a robot that can get around obstacles. Others ninth grade students have made a car on a 3D printer. Their project includes a car with remote control and a drone that followes the car to create a 3D model close to the satellite view system that most modern cars have. Two 12th grade students built tanks with most of the parts printed on a 3D printer.

The most creative were the 9th grade students who designed a robotic hand prosthesis. The robotic hand can help people with medical problems to regain the dexterity of their amputated limbs. In their presentation they used notions of anatomy, physics and chemistry.

2. ”OUR FUTURE CARREERS” – MEETINGS WITH STUDENTS

In the following days we were visited by students from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and others students from the University of Constructions of Bucharest. Our former high school students told us about university life: admition, exams, credits, laboratories and extracurricular activities, but also presented their new projects: burglar alarm systems, voltage stabilizers and various parts designed for cars.

3. “7 LOCKS” – ESCAPE ROOM

The 9th grade students participated in an “Escape Room” game where their abilities to concentrate and successfully solved puzzles were tested.

4. VISIT TO THE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

The 12th grade students visited the Faculty of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering within the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. They found out about the admission conditions, professors and the courses.

Conclusions: Teachers, parents and students appreciated the projects presented in science project fair. The students presentations from the faculties that participated in the project were very interesting and captivating. The joy of interacting and communicating was on everyone’s faces. Now we have already started to prepare for the 2023 STEM campaign.

Our project link: https://onicescu.ro/

STEM DISCOVERY WEEK 2021

Posted on 26/04/2021 by paunmadalinadaniela

1. STEM DISCOVERY WEEK IN ONICESCU - 2021
2. The activities took place online between 14 and 21 of April, 2021.
3. Organizer: Prof. Paun Madalina
4. Students: highschool classes 
5. The purpose of the project is to promote creativity in science and technology as well as drawing attention to the problems faced by citizens and caused by the pollution in Bucharest.

Since 2018, we have organized in National College "Octav Onicescu" an exhibition of multidisciplinary projects named STEM DISCOVERY WEEK. 
The event was appreciated by students, parents and teachers for the original ideas presented.          
Starting with 2020, this activity has been taking place online: pupils, parents, teachers and also students of the technical faculties participated.

STEM DISCOVERY WEEK IN ONICESCU 2021 had three main activities:
1. "Our Experiments" competition (conducted by students) 
2. Career guidance (meetings with the purpose of counseling the scholars) 
3. Brainstorming environmental solutions (proposals to reduce pollution rates in Bucharest). The activities took place online between 14 and 21 of April, 2021.

**Experiments 1 and 2:** **We like simple experiments**. The picture is the author’s own

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STEM DISCOVERY DAY

Posted on 05/05/2020 by paunmadalinadaniela

Author: Madalina Paun

Project: STEM DISCOVERY DAY IN ONICESCU
School: Octav Onicescu National College
Subject: online activity held on April 2020 where students showed their creativity

Education helps us make the world a better place and means more than just going to school. An online STEM activity is made to celebrate communication using a multidisciplinary approach.

Introduction

STEM is an educational concept based on the idea of educating students in four fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics, using a multidisciplinary and applied approach. Since 2018, we organize every year STEM DISCOVERY WEEK in the National College “Octav Onicescu”, an exhibition of scientific projects in which we try to encourage students to get involved in the development of the technical project.

I like it when I see how passionately they present their latest projects, I admire them for the originality they show and I am amazed by the various fields of their interests.

We thought that this year, when due to the Covid-19 pandemic the schools were closed and we were all isolated at home, being a little shocked by what was happening to us, we could organize an online activity in which we would celebrate interpersonal communication, science and technology using Google Classroom, Zoom and Facebook.

The announcement that we will hold STEM DISCOVERY DAY IN ONICESCU attracted the attention of students at various technical faculties, who announced that they want to participate in this activity. The activity took place over 3 hours with short breaks.

Can scientific experiments be done at home?

9th graders have shown that they can highlight principles and laws of physics using materials found at home and using teamwork even if they are at a distance from each other.