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A SciFest@School STEM Fair Encourages Students
• to take ownership of their work and to monitor their own personal progress
• to grow in confidence and develop their communication and presentation skills by exhibiting their work in a student-friendly environment
• who are sometimes reluctant learners in the classroom to become more positive about, and engaged in, their learning
• of all abilities and backgrounds to participate, lowering barriers and bringing the talents of diverse populations into the innovation pipeline
• to work collaboratively, to learn the value of diversity and to appreciate the value of cooperating to reach both collective and personal goals
• to engage in activities that link science, maths, engineering and technology to their everyday lives and to society
• to develop their skills in judging and discriminating between information types and sources and to develop strategies for organising information so that they can understand it and use it later
A SciFest@School STEM Fair
• raises the profile of STEM in a school
• showcases students’ work
• encourages collaboration within the STEM department
• encourages cross curricular collaboration
• builds awareness within the school and outside the
school of the exciting changes that are taking place in the teaching and learning of STEM
• creates valuable links with local industry
• creates opportunities for parents, retired teachers, local industry and past pupils to be more involved