On 19 and 20 May, the final transnational meeting of the STEAM-H project was held in Valencia, Spain. The meeting was organised by Bylinedu in cooperation with La Comarcal.

17 participants from each partner organisation attended the two-day meeting.
The first day was organised at the La Comarcal partner school in Picassent.
Co.Meta srl led the agenda of the meeting focusing on the activities planned for the last three months of the project. In particular, multiplier events and dissemination were discussed. Furthermore, space was dedicated to discuss the results achieved and the feedback collected during the pilot testing.

The second day was organised at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Experiences of testing carried out in the last few months in primary schools were shared by each country involved. The presentations have illustrated:a) What was done during the piloting (how the school organised the process, steps taken, activities carried out); b) The main results achieved; c) Strengths and weaknesses and d)  Impact on the teachers and students involved (what they learnt).

The second part of the day was dedicated to the creation of the Communy of Practice using E-Twinning Platfrom and the sustainability process of the project.

The two days were also enriched by visits organised by the Spanish partners: a visit to the school’s premises (La Comarcal) and to the University (ETSID-UPV Higher Technical School of Design Engineering), together with the premises of CoderDojo Valencia.

On March 24th was held in Valencia (Spain) the II Multiplier Event of the STEAM-H Project. It took place within an important national conference for teachers of the educational system: The VI Conference PR3D 2022: “VI Conference on Programming, Robotics and 3D Printing. Robotics, also in Feminine”

Nearly 200 teachers participated in the different programmed activities.

The STEAM-H project had an outstanding presence within this event held in a hybrid mode, with face-to-face communications and an online program, as well as practical workshops.

Within this program, Bylinedu Association and the school La Nostra Escola Comarcal, the Spanish partners of the STEAM-H project, organized the following activities, linked to the II multiplier event of this project:

1. Stand: An exhibition of the results of the STEAM-H project. Our stand received numerous visits from teachers who reported with great interest and highly valued the quality of the guides, the repository of STEAM resources and the training program for Primary schools teachers, available in different languages.
2. Comunication: “The importance of STEAM-H projects in Primary Education”. Empar Bou (La Nostra Escola Comarcal) and Celia Ruíz (Bylinedu Association) explained to the audience the details and provisional results of the STEAM-H project, whose final versions will soon be available on the project website.

Face-to-face workshop: “STEAM activities for “Dummies” teachers, taught by Empar Bou (La Nostra Escola Comarcal) and Celia Ruíz (Bylinedu Association). In this workshop, low-tech and high-tech activities were carried out. These activities arer included in the STEAM-H Manual, a guide in 5 steps to implement STEAM activities with Primary students:

– Start modeling in 3D with Tinkercad.

-Introduction to programming with Bluebots robots.

-Simple electric circuits with Play-Doh.

It was not necessary for the teachers attending the workshop to be experts or to have previous experience with science and technology, since the selected STEAM activities allowed the teachers to discover that they were capable of experimenting with them and integrating them without difficulty in different areas of knowledge that are involved or not related to science.

Complementing the STEAM-H Multiplier Event, Bylinedu and La Nostra Escola Comarcal participated in other moments of the Conference:

-Communication: “Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), in Inclusive Programming and Robotics”. Loli Iborra Sales (Bylinedu Association).

-Round table: “Robotics, what for? And for whom?” which included the participation of Empar Bou (La Nostra Escola Comarcal).

-Workshop: “SDG for Inclusion with Micro Bit” with the participation of Bernat Llopis and Loli Iborra (Bylinedu Association).

Last Monday 15 at 5.30 p.m. the Spanish multiplier event of the STEAM-H project took place at the Assembly Hall of the University of Florida in Valencia. The event was organised by La Nostra Escola Comarcal in collaboration with Bylinedu and the University’s Science Education Department.

The aim was to explain the results and resources offered by STEAM-H project to promote a STEAM-based  apporach at primary schools. The Competence Map produced that facilitates the implementation of STEAM activities, the Open Educational Resources created that offers resources and tools including STEAM-based activities, the Teacher Training Programme and the Handbook on the application of STEAM-based activities were presented. All documents are free of charge and downloadable from the website in the “Results” section.

The event was attended by more than 80 people interested in the project results. Most of them were future primary school teachers, others were permanent teachers.