The Republican STEM Olympiad was held at Quantum STEM School

In November 2021, the QUANTUM STEM School hosted the STEM Olympiad.

The STEM Olympiad is an innovative educational Olympiad for gifted students, where they learn to apply scientific and technical knowledge in real life. Astana Innovations, together with the Mayor's Office of the capital, has been holding the STEM Olympiad since 2018, where any student in grades 5-11 who has been selected can participate. This year, pre-selected teams from grades 8-11 of educational institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan participated.

The Olympiad takes place every year, and each one features hundreds of bright children who will certainly contribute to the development of our country and education with their inventions in the future.

For several days, participants compete with their inventions, develop, build and develop products for the modern industry. A distinctive feature of the Olympiad is that they study the project and then create real prototypes.

STEM is an integrated learning approach in which academic science and technology concepts are explored in a real-life context. The goal of this approach is to create sustainable links between school, community, work and the whole world that contribute to the development of STEM literacy and competitiveness in the global economy (Tsupros, 2009). STEM education is a bridge between study and career. His concept prepares children for a technologically advanced world. Specialists of the future require comprehensive training and knowledge from a wide variety of educational fields: natural sciences, engineering, technology and mathematics.

There are 4 main areas of the Olympiad:

— robotics

— 3D modeling

— programming

— engineering

The STEM Olympiad has one main global goal: to create conditions for the development of the research potential of intellectually gifted students.

The results of the Olympiad:

Almaz Asanali, a student from Karaganda region, won the Grand Prix;

Students from Nur-Sultan won 1-2 places: Sarseke Edil and Bazhanov Aldiyar;

The 2nd place was also taken by a student from Almaty: Balgabay Shyngysbek;

Students from Karaganda and Pavlodar regions took the 3rd place: Sabdaly Edil and Yeltay Aidar.

You can watch the video report from the Olympics here https://www.instagram.com/p/CX_BYlOI2r2/

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