Ptc Stem Academy Stimulates Fun Learning For School Students
What is STEM?
What is STEM?
Simply put, STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic. Today, most of the blue chip companies and governments are talking about focusing more on STEM education.
Why STEM is being so talked about?
There are many statistics available on the internet for the reasons of focusing on STEM education. However, none talks about the fundamental reasons or relates it to the ground level issues which have been created due to our own urge of achieving success at any cost to compete with each other.
I would say, just look around and you will find why STEM focus has become so important! School students are just learning the school academics as per syllabus. Nothing inspiring, innovative or experimental is being taught to them. Parents and teachers have become exam oriented and unfortunately due to pressures from both, the students, in order to perform in the exams, take up to mugging up the subjects rather than understanding or experimenting.
These very students, later during higher studies, follow the same learning methodology and do not practice experimentation. How can one expect such students to enter the field of research or innovations?
Hence, it is the need of the hour to change certain systems and practices in school academics for the benefit of students and industry. Several initiatives are being carried out to introduce STEM learning through holistic approach where the students are demonstrated various concepts of science and mathematics as they learn from the textbooks. This helps the students to experiment with their ideas and to work on out of box concepts.
There is a greater chance of these schools students joining the STEM related higher studies and take up research if the right kind of orientation has happened during schooling days.
PTC STEM Academy is one such initiative by PTC and
Habib Animatos to inspire the school students to undertake experimental learning in STEM related subjects. PTC provides their softwares Creo, Mathcad and Windchill licensed copies absolutely at no cost with lifetime validity to the students of PTC STEM Academy. Exhaustive syllabus has been prepared to challenge the knowledge and skill of students.
PTC STEM Academy has been launched in the month of July 2012 and in a short span received excellent success. Currently, 18 schools are running the STEM Academy successfully and more are being registering as you are reading this article. Hundreds of students are taking benefit of the programs which truly inculcate the logical and analytical thinking among them.
Programs on designing and programming robots are part of the PTC STEM ACADEMY. School students would design and program the robots themselves. Fun learning is the essential and integral part of PTC STEM Academy. Science Workshops and Tours are being planned to keep the students abreast with the developing world and help them develop a vision of their own rather than be dependent.
NASA Tours and Singapore Science Center tours are one of the highlights of PTC STEM Academy. Three days NASA Space Camp will make the students aware of the nuances of making of an Astronaut. Along with this exciting Space Camp with NASA, students are also visiting Disney Land and Universal Studios.
Let us provide fun learning and the space to experiment and innovate to our children. Let them become what they want and not what the parent want them to. A child must be given freedom to take their own decisions, albeit, under the guidance of the parents. Beware, for guidance may over time become dominance!
by: Habib Animatos
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