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Football in Science Teaching with the European STEM League
How to enthuse students for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths? Eleven school teams from Czech Republic, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey showed how at the international European STEM League finals on 20-21 October 2017 at the German Football Museum in Dortmund.
Proudly supported by SAP and the SAP Charitable Fund, Science on Stage invited STEM teachers to implement experiments about 'Football in Science Teaching' with their classes and document the results in a creative way. At the final the best teams were now competing with their projects for the title European STEM Champion.
We heartily congratulate the teams 'Blocks' and 'GeOMagnus' from Romania (1. Place), 'MA12-Energy' from Germany (2. Place) and 'Liceo Ilaria Alpi' from Italy (3. Place) on their big success!
Our finalists and European STEM Champions:
- Nino Abesadze and Pavle Rukhaia, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Selçuk Yusuf Arslan and Sabri Murat Oruncak, Ankara, Turkey
- Marta Ferrater and Xavier Fenosa, Castelldefels / Barcelona, Spain
- Mihaela Giurgea, Corina Toma and Felicia Vălean, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- Tibor Gyalog and Nicole Traber, Basel / Münchenstein, Switzerland
- Stefan Melzer and Petra Borchmann, Königs Wusterhausen, Germany
- Miguel Angel Queiruga Dios and Noelia Velasco Pérez, Burgos, Spain
- Jitka Soukupová and Eva Sůvová, Stribro, Czech Republic
- Catalina Stanca and Mihaela Ciapa, Galati, Romania
- Heiko Stangl and Monika Krämer, Heidelberg, Germany
- Romina Tanzi and Matilde D'Alò, Rutigliano, Italy
How to participate in the competition?
In the European STEM League competition teachers from all across Europe were invited to implement one or more teaching units of the brochure 'iStage 3 - Football in Science Teaching' with their students and document the results in a creative way (e.g. in a video (max. four minutes), a report, a website, a podcast/blog).
All secondary school teachers as well as teachers-in-training were called to apply together with their students.
Application deadline was 31 May 2017.
What can I win?
The 11 teacher-student-teams (each 2 teachers and 5 students) with the most creative presentations were invited to take part in the international final event on 20-21 October 2017 at the German Football Museum in Dortmund.
They competed for the title of European STEM Champion. The students of all 11 teams were awarded with footballs and tricots.
The teachers of the best three teams at the international final event in Dortmund also qualified for a participation at the European Science on Stage festival 2019.
Project criteria
The most important thing was to enthuse students all around Europe for STEM through one of their favourite sports - football!
To qualify for the final event at the German Football Museum in Dortmund as well as for the European Science on Stage festival 2019, the following aspects had to be considered:
Creativity
Quality of presentation
Students activity and involvement .
As the results of the European STEM League will be shared with teachers all across Europe, the application was in English language.
Venue of the final event: German Football Museum Dortmund
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The world of experience that is the German Football Museum combines 1,600 exhibits and 25 hours of video footage with memories and goose bumps. The expectations of visitors are purposely transcended through the interaction of sound, light, exhibit objects and architecture – a one-two between experience and cognizance. You encounter yourself and your own biography. A grandfather explains the Miracle of Bern to his grandson, while his mother tells him about the infamous Wembley Goal – and the youngster tells the incredible story of Mesut Özil’s Facebook fans to them both.
