The University\nof Macau’s (UM) Macao Base for Primary & Secondary STEM Education recently organised\na STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) Summer Camp,\nwhich attracted about 40 students from ten primary schools in Macao. The first\nscience summer camp designed for primary school students, the event aimed to help\nparticipants acquire STEM knowledge and soft skills, such as critical and\ncreative thinking skills, collaboration skills, and problem-solving skills. It\nwas jointly organised by the Faculty of Education (FED) and the Faculty of\nScience and Technology (FST) at UM, with support from the Science and Technology\nDevelopment Fund (FDCT).<\/p>
During the\ncamp, students learned a variety of STEM-related concepts in the process of\nbuilding an emergency boat. For instance, at the end of the camp, students were\nable to describe the concepts of pressure and density in a liquid and\narticulate and calculate the buoyancy force. They used Scratch to simulate the\nconcepts of forces related to buoyancy, and used MS Excel to calculate the\nresult of the forces. They built boats based on the concepts of energy\nconversion and engineering design learned during the camp. They also learned the\nconcept of vectors addition based on the parallelogram law and applied it using\nExcel. Apart from learning STEM-related concepts, students also had the\nopportunity to develop communication, collaboration, creative, and critical\nthinking skills through group discussions and building boats with the materials\nprovided. The summer camp was jointly coordinated by Prof Emily Oon Pey Tee,\nProf Miranda Mak Chi Kuan and Prof Alice Lei Si Man from the FED as well as\nProf Tam Kam Weng and Mr Miguel Gomes da Costa Junior from the FST. <\/p>
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Established in\nJune 2018, the Macao Base for Primary & Secondary STEM Education aims to\npromote science popularisation and STEM education in collaboration with the FDCT,\nthe Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, the Chinese Educators’ Association of\nMacau, Macau Catholic Schools Association, Macao Science Center, and Macao Post\nand Telecommunications Bureau. With UM’s Centre for Science and Engineering\nPromotion as the core component, the base launches STEM programmes to support\nscience popularisation in Macao and to provide continuous training for teachers\nand students from local primary and secondary schools. <\/p>
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Source: Faculty of Science and Technology<\/p>
Media Contact Information:Communications Office, University of Macau<\/p>
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Albee Lei Tel\uff1a(853) 88228004Kelvin U Tel\uff1a(853) 88224322Email\uff1aprs.media@um.edu.moUM Website\uff1awww.um.edu.mo<\/p>
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