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Participation of our project in Global Junior Challenge, Rome

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Participation of our project in Global Junior Challenge, Rome

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Our "Mars colony" project is one of the finalist projects

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Finalist Porjects | Global Junior Challenge

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The Europlanet Outreach includes TriRoboNauts and our Asteroid Day event in its Newsletter July 2017!

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Europlanet Outreach Newsletter #12 - July 2017

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Welcome to the July 2017 edition of the Europlanet outreach newsletter. This month, we have reports from Summer Schools at the Moletai Observatory in Lithuania and Alpbach in Austria. You can check out details of outreach sessions and teacher training workshops at EPSC 2017 in Riga on 21st September, and catch up on recent Europlanet Webinars on the Cassini mission and sounds of the Solar System.

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TriRoboNauts plan their event!...Because we love Space!

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World Space Week | Celebrate UN-declared World Space Week, 4-10 October annually, the largest space event in the world

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (December 22, 2023) - World Space Week Association today announced that the theme for World Space Week, October 4-10, 2024, will be "Space & Climate Change." "We will emphasize the essential role that space plays in monitoring the Earth's...

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TriRoboNauts with the Honarary diplomas of StarT

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TriRoboNauts with the Honarary diplomas of StarT

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TriRoboNauts enjoyed their participation in Asteroid Day 2017

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TriRoboNauts enjoyed their participation in Asteroid Day 2017

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TriRoboNauts participate in Asteroid Day 2017

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TriRoboNauts, the Greek Robotics team, love Space and participated in Asteroid Day 2017, raising awareness about asteroids and their impact to our Solar System!

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Our Solar System: a School project by Stefania, member of TriRoboNauts

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Our Solar System: a School project by Stefania, member of TriRoboNauts

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Solar system project with Lego and craftwork

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Stefania, member of the Robotics team, TriRoboNauts, built our solar system, combining Lego and craftwork. For the motion of the planets, she used a large motor and a battery. A school project for the 6th grade. ...because we love space!

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Learning about Chemistry with Lego bricks
Depiction of Fe₂O₃

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"Interstellar" and "The Martian" movies were an inspiration for us!

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We are TriRoboNauts, a robotics team from Greece and our project has been selected from over 800 participants from 36 countries as one of the 10 best StarT projects in 2017. The main theme of our project is Robotics and Programming by building a space colony on Mars with Lego WeDo and Scratch.

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2nd Place in National Educational Robotics Competition for elementary school students 2016- TriRoboNauts

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2nd Place in National Educational Robotics Competition for elementary school students 2016- TriRoboNauts

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Been selected from over 800 participants from 36 countries as one of the ten best StarT projects in 2017 Very proud!!!

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The StarT jury has chosen the International LUMA StarT Award 2017 nominees, of which there are ten in two different categories. They have been selected from the projects of over 800 learning communities from 36 countries from around the world. The winners are to be chosen by the StarT jury. In addition, the public's most voted favourites are to be announced at the StarT gala, organised in the grand ballroom of the University of Helsinki on 23 rd of May at 13:00. The minister of education of Finland, Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, will hand the awards at award gala.

Look through the learning diaries and videos of the teams and vote for your favourite before 21st of May! Voting is done by liking the project- and best practice videos on Youtube.
When voting with a mobile device click the title of the video 'International Luma Award..' to open it on Youtube.
NB! If the subtitles don't show click the 'cc'/'keyboard' button on the lower right corner of the video.

Project nominees

Ten projects have been selected by the StarT jury as nominees for the International LUMA StarT Award 2017. They are shown below in alphabetical order according to the project title. The more detailed assessment criteria you can find here. The playlist of the project videos can be found from here.

1. Cave project, Agrupamento de Escolas Cidade do Entroncamento
Francisco Gonçalves José Dias Rute Nunes,
The learning diary of the team is available here.

2. Flight/Aviation project, Echipa Multitouchnme, Georgeta Cozma, Chereche Nicoleta Students: Mihalca Patrik , Mihai Olariu, Codru Erdei, Toni Caia,
The learning diary of the team is available here.

3. Mathematics of the chestnut, Szivárvány Kindergarten, Kistelek, Éva Virágné Szqcs and Csilla Novák,

The learning diary of the team is available here.

4. Nature and environment project, Šiaurės licėjaus, Lina Kiliauskait's kindergarten group,

The learning diary of the team is available here.

5. Programming and robotics project, TriRoboNauts, Spahou Stefania, Staridas Vasileios, Roumeliotis Fotios, Stafila Galini, Siomos Nektarios,

The learning diary of the team is available here.

6. Protect & live project, Büyükçekmece Atatürk Anatolian High School, Nilgün Erentay's and Nejdet Köker's group,

The learning diary of the team is available here.

7. SOS glove project, Semesta Billingual Boarding School, Bryan Tanamas Fachry Adam El-Yaqien Mucharam Sultan Gemilang Kemadi,

The learning diary of the team is available here.

8. Stars and space project, Salesian School Santo Domingo Savio, Jose Maria Diaz Fuentes, José Illana Lope Jimena Díaz del Álamo Elena López Sevilla Laura García Morcillo Ana Soledad Lara Fernández,

The learning diary of the team is available here and here.

9. Weather ball project, Veikkola secondary school, teacher Aki Kukkonen and students of classes 5A + 5B + 7-9,

10. Well being project about bread, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Supranee Sitthipairojsakul's group, Thailand
The learning diary of the team is available here.

The Best Practices of the Learning Communities

The International LUMA StarT Education Award 2017 is given to three learning communities for best practices related to carrying out StarT. The more detailed assessment criteria you can find here. The International LUMA StarT Education Award 2017 nominees chosen by the StarT jury are shown below in alphabetical order according to the project title. The playlist of the videos can also be found from here.

1. Collaboration among geography, chemistry and social studies teachers in an interdisciplinary project, Pirkkala secondary school, Kati Lahtinen, Finland

2. Collaboration of education and teacher training programme through StarT, MTA-SZTE Science Education Research Group, Faculty of Science and Informatics US, Erzsébet Korom, Hungary

3. Collaboration with Physical Cultural and Sports Centre, Jonava children' nursery-kindergarten "The Sun", Natalija Zuravlioviene, Lithuania

4. Collaboration with several different actors; one collaboration partner was Park Tarabya Kindergarten / İstanbul, Kindergarten Satulaiva, Taipalsaari, Kirsi Rehunen, Finland

5. Collaborative StarT fair, Odessa ORT Zhabotinski school, Anna Michurina, Ukraine

6. Community outreach, Green group, Khadija Azaitraoui, Morocco

7. Developing a learning module for studying mathematics in one's surroundings, IES Santo Domingo, Eva Acosta Gavilán, Spain

8. Developing student workshops in learning community, Primary School " Miroslav Anti", Gordana Hajdukovi-Jandri, Serbia

9. Involving the entire school community in StarT, Betygala Maironis gymnasium, Saule Tiskuviene, Lithuania

10. Series of activities to foster STEAM education in primary schools, De Creatieve STEM, Sanne Cools, Belgium

Congratulations to all the nominees and thank you to all that have participated in StarT 2016-2017!
Vote for your favourite before 21st of May! Follow the StarT gala through a live stream on Tuesday 23rd of May starting at 13:00.
Welcome to StarT again next year!

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The power of collaborative learning, our moto: "...the road is more efficient when you do it with company", Jorge Bucay, from his book "Let me tell you a story".

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Trikala is a picturesque town located in the centre of Greece

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ΣΕΝΑΡΙΟ ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΥ TriRoboNauts_για_παιδια_starT

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https://scratch.mit.edu/mystuff/#shared

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Information about man-made satellites in Greek

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Information about man-made satellites in Greek

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Τεχνητός Δορυφόρος

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Inquiry based Learning

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Fantastic trips into space

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Inspiration - Inquiry based Learning