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iGEM Team Meetings: Settings for Conversations on Teaching and Learning
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Arcellana-Panlilio, Mayi; Lohmeier-Vogel, Elke – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2017
Every November, the University of Calgary iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machines) team presents their synthetic biology project to the world. Weekly team meetings are a microcosm of the iGEM experience of bringing ideas to fruition. The peer teaching, mentoring, and consultations that occur at these meetings are triggers for deeper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Genetics, Biology, Summer Programs
How Education Background Affects Design Outcome: Teaching Product Development to Mechanical Engineers, Industrial Designers and Managers
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Silva, Arlindo; Leite, Marco; Vilas-Boas, João; Simões, Ricardo – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Product design and development (PDD) is a current topic of academic and industrial research. Emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as design thinking and creativity has been recently pulled together into the teaching and research on PDD. This paper looks into a multidisciplinary setting made up of three similar but independent PDD…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship, Thinking Skills
The Real Life Application of Pulleys in a Competitive Environment
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Tekbiyik, Ahmet – Teaching Science, 2015
The aim of this research was to explore students' application of theoretical knowledge in real-life situations using pulley systems in a competition designed for primary school students. The study was conducted with 24 primary school students who had completed year seven, and who volunteered to participate in a summer science camp. In groups, the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Summer Programs, Equipment
Experiential Engineering through iGEM--An Undergraduate Summer Competition in Synthetic Biology
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Mitchell, Rudolph; Dori, Yehudit Judy; Kuldell, Natalie H. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
Unlike students in other engineering disciplines, undergraduates in biological engineering typically have limited opportunity to develop design competencies, and even fewer chances to implement their designed projects. The international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition is a student Synthetic Biology competition that, in 2009,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Competition, Biology, Engineering
International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns.
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Liu, Andy – 1993
The International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns is a mathematics competition for junior and senior high school students all over the world. The tournament began in 1980 in the former Soviet Union. Participants write contest papers locally, with emphasis on solving within a very generous time allowance a small number of interesting problems.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Competition, Correspondence Study, Foreign Countries
How the Weizmann Institute in Israel Elected to Deal with Highly Able Students. Dinner Session.
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Rishpon, Moshe – Roeper Review, 1991
Special science and mathematics programs available to students at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel are described. The Summer Science Institute, mentor programs, screening procedures, science clubs, an outdoor interactive science museum, science fairs, mathematics olympia, a "mathematics by mail" program, and the International…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities