STEM Alliance & STE(A)M IT Competition 2021
STEM Alliance & STE(A)M IT Competition 2021 - STEM Professionals Go Back to School
The STEM Alliance & STE(A)M IT - Professionals Go Back to School Competition encourages the integration of STEM Career topics in class through Career Sheets and (virtual) visits from STEM professionals to classrooms, among other options. It includes two streams:
- Stream 1 - Professionals Go Back to School calls for the organisation of a collaborative activity with a STEM Professional and the creation of a STEM Career Sheet (the template is available in the terms and conditions document).
- Stream 2 - STEM Professions calls for the organisation of an activity using STEM Alliance / STE(A)M IT materials like the STE(A)M IT Guidelines on how to present STEM jobs in classrooms.
Join now: Organise the activity, pin it to the STEM Discovery Map and submit the career sheet (stream 1) and/or tell us about your activity (stream 2) to be one of the 10 teachers to join the STE(A)M IT Career Advisors Network.
About the competition
"STEM Professionals Go Back to School" is a STEM Alliance scheme that encourages teachers and volunteers from STEM industries (technicians, scientists, engineers, researchers, employment and recruiting managers etc.) to organise career talks and collaborative activities in schools or online.
Within the framework of the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign and in collaboration with the STE(A)M IT project, the "STEM Alliance & STE(A)M IT - Professionals Go Back to School Competition" encourages the integration of STEM Career topics in class through Career Sheets and (virtual) visits from STEM professionals to classrooms, among other options.
The competition calls for good examples of organising activities involving STEM professionals going back to schools and the creation of STEM Job Profiles based on regional/local STEM industry representatives (e.g. small medium enterprises from the region), with whom the students in each country can more easily relate to.
The competition focuses on teachers and volunteers from STEM industries to organize amongst others:
- Career talks with STEM professionals (in class or online)
- Collaborative activities in schools addressing STEM careers (in class or online)
- Integrating and/or creating STEM Career Profiles (including STEM Career Sheets)
Duration
The competition will run from 1 February to 30 April 2021 at 23:59 Central European Time (CET).
How to participate
The competition is divided into two parallel streams:
- Stream 1: Professionals Go Back to School calls for the organisation of a collaborative activity and the creation of a STEM Career Sheet (see STEM Career Sheets)
- Stream 2: STEM Professions calls for the organisation of an activity using STEM Alliance / STE(A)M IT materials
Participants can choose to participate in one or both of the streams, following the steps mentioned below.
- The teacher gets in touch with a local or regional STEM professional.
- Together with the STEM professional, the teacher organises a collaborative activity or career talk on e.g., finding out the needed skills for jobs or creating a career sheet (see STEM Career Sheets). The STEM professional can be a local, regional, national, or international. The activity can take place online
- Together with the students and/or the STEM professional, the teacher creates a new STEM Career Profile1 (for more information on what a STEM Career Profile needs to include, see the terms and conditions) based on the information collected during the collaborative activity or career talk.
- To submit their entries, the teacher must:
- Step 1: Pin the activity and submit the career sheet to the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign map of activities. When you fill in the form to submit your activity you will be asked if you want to submit the activity to a competition.
Select: STEM Alliance / STE(A)M IT Competition 3 –Stream 1: Professionals Go back to school. You will be prompted to provide a link to the STEM Career Sheet you are submitting for the competition from where it can be accessed. - Step 2 (optional): Why not submit the Activity itself to Stream 2 as well? If interested, the form will ask you to confirm and write a blog post about the activity with the STEM professional and the creation of the STEM Career Profile on the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign blog.
- Step 1: Pin the activity and submit the career sheet to the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign map of activities. When you fill in the form to submit your activity you will be asked if you want to submit the activity to a competition.
- The teacher uses any of the following materials on how to present STEM jobs in their classroom:
- The teacher organises an activity on STEM professions. The activity can take place online
- To submit their entries, the teachers must:
- Step 1: Pin and submit the activity to the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign map of activities. When you fill in the form to submit your activity you will be asked if you want to submit the activity to a competition.
Select: STEM Alliance / STE(A)M IT Competition 3 –Stream 2: STEM Professions. - Step 2: Write a blog post about the activity with the STEM professional and the creation of the STEM Career Profile on the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign blog. At the end of Step 1 you will receive information on how to contribute to the blog.
- Step 1: Pin and submit the activity to the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign map of activities. When you fill in the form to submit your activity you will be asked if you want to submit the activity to a competition.
Awards
The participants will be awarded according to the competition stream they have participated in. A participant can only win in one of the streams:
Stream 1:
- The winning entries (STEM Job Profiles) will be published on the STE(A)M IT Repository of STEM Job Profiles.
- The winners will become STE(A)M IT Career Counsellors (including a title and a badge), receive exclusive training, attend events, and participate in workshops as members of the Network of Career Advisors in STEM jobs (for more information see STE(A)M IT Career Counsellors).
Stream 2:
- The winners will be invited to a panel discussion with STEM Alliance professionals, organised during the rerun of the STE(A)M IT MOOC (October to December 2021).
- The winners will become STE(A)M IT Career Counsellors (including a title and a badge), receive exclusive training, attend events and participate in workshops as members of the Network of Career Advisors in STEM jobs.
Career Counsellors will receive exclusive training, attend events, and participate in workshop from the Network of Career Advisors in STEM jobs, in order to help them increase their understanding of emerging STEM careers and the skills needed for these careers. Career Counsellors will become members of a community on STE(A)M approaches and potentially mentoring/career guidance programmes. They will be part of the leading members of the STE(A)M IT community, which will provide visibility for them and their school, as well as the opportunity to actively promote events about STEM careers.
Terms and conditions
For more information, please consult the terms and conditions of this competition.
1 A STEM Career Profile consists of a "STEM Career Sheet"as well as a description of the job and the main skills needed. For more information see http://steamit.eun.org/category/stem-careers/