Scientix Webinar - Hands on Experiments from Shared Experiences
Channel: European Schoolnet
Date: 16/12/2021

During the upcoming Scientix webinar on Wednesday 15 December 2021, 17:00-18:00 CET, Michael Gregory, a Scientix Ambassador for France, presented two collaborative projects to promote access to hands-on science by facilitating the exchange of ideas for low-cost experiments: ‘Experiments Shares’, for educators, and ‘YES! International’, for students.

’Experiments Shares’ is a series of monthly online meetings featuring teachers around the world sharing some of their favourite experiments, while ‘YES! International’ meetings feature students in his Young Enthusiastic Scientists (YES!) science club and other science clubs around the world to share their experiments.

Behind both initiatives is Michael Gregory, a Scientix Ambassador for France, a member of the French Science on Stage delegation and also an active member of numerous teacher groups including Perimeter Institute Teacher Network, CERN and Exploratorium TI alumni, and coordinator of science programmes for gifted students at a bilingual school in Paris.

The webinar included a handful of guest appearances:

Giulia Realdon is a biologist, with a PhD in Earth sciences education, a retired teacher, now education researcher at the University of Camerino, a non-formal educator and teacher trainer. She is also a Scientix Ambassador, a member of the Italian Steering Committee of Science on Stage and EGU (European Geoscience Union) Education Field Officer for Italy.

Panagiotis (Takis) Lazos is a physics teacher in Greek secondary education, the Head of the 4th Laboratory Centre of Natural Sciences of Athens and a PhD student in the Faculty of Primary Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Astrinos Tsoutsoudakis holds a BSc in Physics and an MEd in ICT in distance learning. He has worked as a science and IT teacher for state primary and secondary schools, and as an earthquake-related educational activities consultant of the National History Museum of Crete, and he is currently the coordinator of the 1st Science Laboratory Centre of Heraklion, Crete.