This course designed to spark interest in physics, math and programming
among younger students
Many students have been unable to attend school due to the CoViD pandemic and they are losing touch with the subjects that require specialist teaching to maintain proficiency. We designed this three-class online course to give our students a re-introduction to these topics, improve their confidence, and serve as a sampling for our main STEM course, the Phoenix Space Program, all while providing an opportunity for girls to get together and socialize online.
Students in the STEM Spark course learn the following:
Students investigate the behavior of objects under gravity by using items they can find around the house in simple experiments as a way to begin discussing the scientific method. Students are encouraged to offer hypotheses and potential explanations, and then to test them out themselves.
Students use MIT’s Scratch coding tool to create a simple sequential animation. This helps to demystify programming, show them the free tools available to them, and improve their confidence when it comes to learning technical skills.
Students explore number patterns by investigating the properties of simple polyhedra they can construct from paper at home. They see the deep relationships involved in real, tangible objects and will hopefully be fascinated by some of the surprising results that they find as they adjust and cut these shapes.
Phoenix Space is excited to bring our young students together and spark their interest in STEM topics, and inspiring them to go on and learn more with us, or otherwise.
PHOENIX SPACE CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, Charity Number: 1206724.
