The project 3D Robo Challenge aims mainly at developing a strong relationship between the three partners Lycee polyvalent Louis de Cormontaigne, Metz (FR), North Karelia College, Joensuu (FI) and Institut Esteve Terradas i Illa, Barcelona (ES) while encouraging students to experience the challenges of teamwork, improve their English language skills, learn new practices in the field of rob. During the learning acivities groups of students will travel to the partner country where the teachers will divide the groups into smaller mixed groups (sub-groups) in order to avoid passive participation. The students will have the chance to know each other more closely during the project meetings. The sub-groups will work on small /mini-projects such 3D printing, assembling small robots and programming their functions using the Arduino Uno microcontroller kit. The students will document their activities on the project webpage (Facebook). The students will also have other group activities that increase their knowledge about the partner countries and cultures, also the school and the studies. The impact of such exchanges is more efficient, since the students will experience more while being in smaller sub-groups and for general activities in bigger groups. The communication with the local students is more efficient, and they improve their individual social and professional skills in smaller teams. Working in smaller groups perhaps even leads to friendship. In every region where the partner schools are located there are yearly events to which we have planned for the students to attend or take part. Metz, France - Robot exhibition/competition Joensuu, Finland - Science festival SciFest - http://www.scifest.fi/ Barcelona, Spain - Cosmocaixa Barcelona - http://agenda.obrasocial.lacaixa.es/ca/-/encuentro-de-proyectos-de-tecnologias-creativas-y-roboti-1 The project will include - 4 transnational project meetings during the three years - 9 learning activities in Metz, Joensuu and Barcelona Before every learning activity the students will prepare a welcoming video for the guest students. They will use CLIL tools (CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING) to describe learning activities. We will also create a WhatsApp group for the participants to communicate. The participants will share a Facebook group and the project will have a Webpage also on Facebook. Facebook provides easy tools and the sharing process is efficient and fast.
The 3D Robo Challenge project mainly aimed to develop a strong relationship between the three partners Lycée polyvalent Louis de Cormontaigne, Metz (FR), North Karelia College, Joensuu (FI) and Institut Esteve Terradas i Illa, Barcelona (ES) while encouraging students to meet the challenges of teamwork, improve their English language skills, learn new practices in the field of flight. In total, nearly 100 students took part in the 3DRoboChallenge activities as a host or guest. The number of teachers and management staff who took part in the project at different levels of involvement is around 30. During the learning activities, groups of students traveled to partner countries and actively participated in small group activities (6 students). Nationalities were mixed in the groups in order to promote communication in English. The meetings always started with fun activities at the beginning of the week (such as an escape game) which allowed the students to get to know each other and to start communicating by breaking the ice. The groups worked on mini-projects that made it possible to implement 3D printing, the assembly of small robots and the programming of their functions using electronic boards like Arduino Uno. The students documented their activities on the websites of the partner schools rather than on Facebook (they are not naturally users of this platform). Students were able to participate in various group activities to deepen their knowledge of partner countries and cultures, as well as school and studies. They were able to make strong contacts thanks to this way of working in small groups. In each region where the partner schools are located, there have been events in which the students have participated (Game of Drones event in France, Cosmocaixa fair in Barcelona). Due to time constraints, participation in the SciFest science festival and the career Olympics could not be done in Finland. We replaced it with a demonstration within the school. The project was broken down into - 4 transnational project meetings (M1 to M4), one in each country. The last (M4) was kept at bay due to the Covid-19 crisis. - 5 learning activities (CA to C5) in Metz, Joensuu and Barcelona. The last one, scheduled for Metz (C6), was canceled due to the Covid-19 crisis. Before each learning activity, the students contacted each other on WhatsApp and participated in a Skype video conference. The objectives we set for ourselves at the start of the program have been achieved. The proposed activities allowed the students to gain self-confidence at the linguistic and professional level. They have enabled them to develop skills that they can reinvest in their studies and professional life. The students also learned a lot by being in contact with different European cultures.