Action Plan Intel ISEF 2010

Educator AcademyMay 2010

Sri Lanka

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High Level Goals• What we want to accomplish for Sri Lanka

• Long term goals (3-5 years)– Every school in the country to participate at national

science and engineering competitions.

– Make research based projects an important part of school curriculum.

– Develop an online registration process for competitions.

• Short term goals (1-2 years)– Promote SLSEF and Intel ISEF among schools.

– Strengthen local competitions with workshops.

– Improve scientific review and judging process.

– Win an award at Intel ISEF 2011.

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Objectives• Results we expect as proof of success:

– Number of students participating at national science and engineering competitions increased to 5,000 in 5 years.

– Quality of projects increased with strong scientific research methodology.

– High quality projects selected and improved at national competitions.

– Win an award at Intel ISEF 2011.

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Action Plan

Action Measure of Success Responsible When

Promote SLSEF/ISEF More children participating at national science and engineering competitions.

MoE/NSF/IESL/

Intel

June

2010

Felicitate SLSEF/ISEF winners, teachers and principals

Felicitation ceremonies, press conferences/releases and online Web updates.

MoE/NSF/IESL/

Intel

June/

July

2010

Workshops for students and teachers

Improved quality in projects submitted for national science and engineering competitions.

MoE/NSF/IESL/

Intel

January-June

2010

Workshop for Science Review Committee and Judges

All projects reviewed and judged without any ambiguity.

NSF/IESL/Intel June

2010

Re-affiliate SLSEF with Intel ISEF

Signing of MoU and completing ISEF affiliation.

Intel October

2010

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Action PlanAction Measure of Success Responsible When

Conduct Junior Inventor of the Year (JIY) competition

Increased number of competitors at JIY.

IESL October

2010

Conduct Science Research Competition (SRPC)

Increased number of competitors at SRPC.

NSF November

2010

Conduct SLSEF Select two individual projects and one group project for ISEF.

NSF/IESL December

2010

Send circulars to schools announcing local competitions

More schools participating at local competitions.

MoE January

2011

Prepare winners of local competitions for ISEF

Projects of Intel ISEF standard.

NSF/IESL January-April

2011

Sponsor winners to attend Intel ISEF

Students participate at the Intel ISEF 2011.

Intel May

2011

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Intel ISEF Educator Academy• Key learning from the Educator Academy

– Wide array of local fair models and methodologies used by different countries.

– Scientific Review Committee guidelines.– Online registration process for local competitions.

• Most beneficial Shop Talks for team– Scientific Review Committee panel.– Automating the fair.– Free teacher and student resources.

• Types of Shop Talks missing– Satisfied with what was provided.

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Sri Lanka Team