The International LUMA StarT Award Nominees and public’s favourites 2018 are here!

The International LUMA StarT Award nominees and the public’s favourite have been chosen ‒ get inspired by the top-quality educational practices from all around the world!

The LUMA Centre Finland is proud to share the nominees for the best educational practices and the best projects carried out in learning communities across the world in 2017‒2018. The videos of these twenty nominees introduce educational practices worth noting and suggest inspiring ideas for carrying out project-based learning in schools and kindergartens. Have a look and let the videos of the top contestants of StarT inspire you!

The International LUMA StarT Awards will be awarded for the second time at the University of Tampere on the 5th of June 2018. In StarT, learning communities from all around the world share their interdisciplinary and cross-curricular science-related projects and educational practices with us at StarT, and we share them with the rest of the world. This year, we received altogether 500 project videos and 100 best practice videos from 20 countries. The StarT jury has now decided the final 20 contestants continuing to compete for the International LUMA StarT Awards, and the public chosen their top two favourites.

The results of the public voting

The StarT jury chose approximately 100 project and best practice videos to be included in the public voting of StarT. The public voting was ongoing from the 12th of March 2018 until the 8th of April 2018, and the project “Waste busters” and the best practice “StarT Day in S.O.S Project Schools” were able to inspire the greatest number of people. Congratulations on the winners and thanks to everyone who participated! Read more about the videos of the public’s favourite here.

The nominees for the International LUMA StarT Awards 2018

Out of the videos included in the public voting, the StarT jury has now made their decision on the International LUMA StarT Award nominees. There are two award categories in StarT: 1) best educational practices 2) best projects. The StarT jury has chosen ten nominees for the International LUMA StarT Award, which will be given to three teams with the best projects, and ten nominees for the International LUMA StarT Education Award, which in turn is given to three best educational practices. Thus, the nominee videos are the top twenty videos reported to StarT in 2017-2018, and they convey exemplary educational practices that take use of an interdisciplinary approach, and promote collaborative learning and active learning in general. By watching the videos everyone can benefit from the pedagogical innovations formulated across the world, and make use of the exciting ideas and quintessential methods for carrying out project-based learning.

The International LUMA StarT Education Award Nominees 2018 (best practice nominees):

  1. Preschool group Puuhiset Satulaiva, Kirsi Rehunen, Finland
  2. Innovation for Creativity Development Association, Suraaya Ayyad, Jordan
  3. Junior Karasin University; ”Club 2×2″ from Children and Youth Center for Creative Activities, Halyna Hodovana, Ukraine
  4. Kulosaaren Yhteiskoulu (Kulosaari Secondary School), Hanna Huhtakallio, Finland
  5. Team Chimera, Richard Spencer, the United Kingdom
  6. MEF Middle School, Simge Sohtorik, Turkey
  7. MTA-SZTE Science Education Research Group and Arany János Primary School Szeged, Erzsébet Korom, Hungary
  8. S.O.S Project Schools, Nilgün Erentay, Turkey
  9. 1B NMS Stromstraße, Katharina Rettenmoser, Austria
  10. Ylämyllyn koulu (Ylämylly school), Pekka Tarva, Finland

The International LUMA StarT Award Nominees 2018 (project nominees):

  1. “EcoChange”, Agrupamento de escolas de Alcanena (Bárbara Correia, Catarina Naia, Guilherme Santos, José Coutinho and Maria Farinha), Portugal
  2. “Grab group versus shovel group”, Automatic parking robot plan (Xu Mohan, Zhang Shuqin, Han Xinxue, Wang Jieting), China
  3. “UV Alarm”, Clube Ciência Viva ESDMII Braga (Francisco Toldy, Filipe Santos, Raquel Moreira), Portugal
  4. “The Galaxy”, Curious Astronauts (Sabahat Demir, Nergiz Demir, Irmak Acar, Şiyar Atak, Cihan Güngör, Oktay Demir, İsmail Atan), Turkey
  5. “Oma peli ohjelmoimalla (pragramming your own game)”, Jyväskylän normaalikoulun alakoulu (Primary school of the Jyväskylä teacher training school)  (Class 3C), Finland
  6. “Tom Yam Kung Project”, National science and technology development agency (Kindergarten school of Thammasat University), Thailand
  7. “Baret_Care”, Nigde Aksemseddin Science and Art Center (Halil Ataberk Bakırcı, Ahmet Efe Bakırcı and others), Turkey
  8. “Hyppy kivikauden elämään: Talvi” (Jump into the life at the Stone Age: Winter), Day Care Center Piilometsä, Finland
  9. “Lemna grinder”, WASTE BUSTERS (Zeynep Sude Çetin, Bora Özkan, Zeynep Eyüpoğlu, Berfin Elçin, Kerim Berber, Umay Eskialp, Melike Damla Özdemir, Aslıhan Eşkin, Gizem İdil Tunçbilek, Bilgesu Gökçenur), Turkey
  10. “#biopolku” (“#biopath”), Äänekosken lukio (Äänekoski Upper Secondary School)  (Elina Aaltonen, Arttu Hytönen, Liisa Pulli, Linda Savolainen, Santtu Sällinen, Sofia Turunen), Finland

 

Welcome to the International LUMA StarT Gala on the 5th of June in Tampere, Finland!

The final six winners of the International LUMA StarT Awards will be revealed in the international LUMA StarT gala which is the grand final of both the national and international StarT every year. This year the gala will take place at the University of Tampere on the 5th of June 2018, as a part of the international LUMAT Symposium and the national LUMA Days. The awards will be handed by the Director General of the Finnish National Agency for Education, Olli-Pekka Heinonen. Everyone is warmly welcome to participate in the gala! There gala will also be livestreamed, so that everyone in the world can watch it online.

Remember: registering as a learning community for the StarT 2018–2019 starts in May!

StarT is organized annually, and we invite all learning communities from daycares to upper secondary schools and extracurricular activity groups to share their best educational practices and project-based learning ideas related to science with us! Registering for the StarT 2018–2019 starts in May, and you can find more information here. Registering does not bind you to anything, but instead you will receive additional support and inspiration for carrying out exciting, interdisciplinary project-based learning in your learning community. Welcome along, everyone!

More information about StarT:

  • Director, Professor Maija Aksela, LUMA Centre Finland
  • International project manager, Anette Markula, LUMA Centre Finland

 

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