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ESTeEM Antarctica - Education of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

  • October 2018
DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.27965.92646
  • Conference: 10th Portuguese Conference on Polar Sciences, Uni. Aveiro, Portugal
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Nuno Sidónio Andrade Pereira at Polytechnic Institute of Beja
Nuno Sidónio Andrade Pereira
Sandra Saude at Polytechnic Institute of Beja
Sandra Saude
Ana Isabel Rodrigues at Polytechnic Institute of Beja_Portugal
Ana Isabel Rodrigues
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Aldo Passarinho at University of Barcelona
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STEM education is now a priority as we move to an increasingly technology-dependent society. On the other hand, issues of environment pollution and sustainable development should be at the top of the list of topics addressed by educators at all levels of teaching. This project intends to address these topics in the context of Antarctica, and using Antarctica as a means to start the debate with students and educators. In the 2018-19 campaign, three projects will be implemented under the designation ESTeEM Antarctica: ViRAL (Virtual Reality Antarctica Laboratory), Antarctuino (Physical Computing in Antarctica with the Arduino), and ARC (Antarctica Robotics Challenge). As a STEM education project, the objective is twofold: (i) to promote coding-related activities, engaging students and educators in project-based learning, either with robotics or physical computing (topics of the utmost priority and importance for the future educational framework, namely, digital literacy, in particular coding skills), and (ii) to increase the awareness of society about topics related to Antarctica, namely, the conservation of wildlife, pollution, and the impact of human activity at a global scale (to promote public engagement, in particular the new generations, in the discussion of solutions and pathways for sustainable development). In this communication we will briefly cover the results from the previous campaign (2017-18) in the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, where the precursor project was successfully implemented, and present the work plan of the next campaign, in particular, the physical computing sub-projects, the upgrade of ViRAL, and the activities under development for the ARC, in cooperation with Portuguese schools and the network of schools from the Camões Institute of Sofia, in Bulgaria. The project ESTeEM Antarctica is supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), I.P./MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC,) and the Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR).
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10th Portuguese Conference on Polar Sciences
25 - 26 October 2018 | UAveiro, Portugal
Nuno S. A. Pereira | nuno.pereira@ipbeja.pt
Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences &
LabPI - Laboratory of Physics and Instrumentation
Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal
ESTeEM Antarctica
Education of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Sandra Saúde (PI), Ana Rodrigues, Aldo Passarinho, Fátima Carvalho,
Mariana Regato, Tânia Correia, Rui Anastácio, Filipe Silva, João Afonso
Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal
Gabriel Goyanes
Researcher, Collaborator IGOT – University of Lisbon
●30 days campaign (February-March 2018) in the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, St. Kliment
Ohridski
●Cooperation between the and the
●Three educational projects:
ViRAL: Virtual Reality Antarctic Laboratory →Science Outreach
Antarctuino: Physical Computing in Antarctica with Arduino →STEM Educ. & PBL
Robotics: Programming robots with
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
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Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
●Four schools, and a Robotic academy
St. George School, Sofia, Bulgaria
49th School & Robotika Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Centro Educativo Alice Nabeiro, Campo Maior, Portugal
Externato António Sérgio, Beringel, Portugal
●Robots sponsored by
●210 GB of media produced (15492 photos)
mBot Ranger
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Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
360° photos
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●Production of a User Guide with information on:
➢IDE usage
➢Circuit drawing with Fritzing
➢Sensors
➢Libraries
➢Examples of codes
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
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St. George School: Weather Station
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Projects tested in the field
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●Arduino nano
●GPS module Ublox
●BMP280: Temperature and
barometric pressure
sensor from Bosch
Sensortec
●OLED display
●Water proof plastic box
IPBeja / Lab-PI: PT-Station
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Projects tested in the field
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●Arduino Uno R3
●GPS module Ublox
●BME280: Temperature
Relative Humidity, and
Barometric Pressure
sensor from Bosch
Sensortec (outside)
●DHT21:Temperature,
and Relative Humidity
(inside)
●SPLite from K&Z:
Radiometer for
irradiance (W/m2)
IPBeja / Lab-PI: AMoS (Antarctuino Monitor System)
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Projects tested in the field
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Tracking device for the mBot Ranger:
●Arduino nano
●GPS receiver
●OLED display
●BMP280
IPBeja / Lab-PI: BackPack
●Three Arduino sketches
➢Read sensors / Write
EPROM
➢Read EEPROM
➢Clear EEPROM
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Projects tested in the field
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●Educators and students
assembled and
programmed the robots
●The 5 robots were
assembled at the base
●The robots were tested on
several conditions: moving
in sand, rocks, and snow
●Videos and pictures of the
tests: provide feedback to
the teams
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Robotics
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Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Robotics
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Test drive on rock & snow….and water!
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Robotics
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The team is getting ready!
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Robotics
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●Communication at the 9th Portuguese Conference on Polar Sciences, 2017 – UBI, Covilhã
●Session with students from the 1st year of the TeSP Course of Tourism, Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal
(January 2018, before the campaign)
●Presentation at the Science Festival of Estremoz, Portugal (May 2018, presented by the students from CEAN)
●Sessions with the students from the 2nd and 3rd year of the Tourism Course, Polytechnic Institute of Beja,
Portugal (May, and June 2018)
●Session with the students from Portuguese Studies, University of Sofia, Bulgaria (May 2018)
●Sessions with the students (2nd, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11thgrades) and teachers from High School 18, Sofia, Bulgaria (May
2018)
●Presentation at the Sofia Science Festival, 11th of May 2018, Bulgaria
●Session with students from 1st to 4th grades in Beringel, Portugal (June 2018)
●Communication at POLAR 2018, Davos, Switzerland
●Robotics Workshop (7-12 kids), Centro Cultural de Beringel, Portugal (7 & 14 of July 2018)
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Communications & Outreach Sessions
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Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
First Campaign (2017-18): Facts & Figures
Social Media & Web Resources
Facebook, Google Photos,
Research Gate
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We are happy with the results ;-)
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Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
What's next?
??
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We want to...
●Continue the collaboration with the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute: in the framework of
the signed MoU
●Continue the collaboration with Makeblock: STEM education with robotics
●Develop more Antarctuino projects: Physical Computing in Antarctic with Arduino
●Robotics workshops for students and educators
●Expand the project to more schools in Portugal & Bulgaria
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
What's next?
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●Supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), I.P./MCTES through
national funds (PIDDAC,) and the Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR)
●STEM Education in Antarctica
●Campaign 2018-19, Bulgarian Antarctic Base
●Three sub-projects:
ViRAL: Virtual Reality Antarctic Laboratory – Science Outreach
Expand the collection of 360° photos
Antarctuino: Physical Computing in Antarctica with Arduino
✔New devices and sensors: participation of students
from 1st year of Informatics, IPBeja
✔IoT approach communications – Raspberry Pi !!
✔Prototype Hydroponics System (MSc Thesis, IPBeja)
ARC: Antarctic Robotics Challenge – programming tasks!!
●
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
Project ESTeEM Antarctica
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●Robotics Workshops & Outreach Session:
GIRLS in STEM – 27 October, IPBeja, Portugal
Presentation of ARC & Robotics Workshops – 19 November,
Escola Secundária Jorge Peixinho, Montijo, Portugal
●Communications, Poster & Robotics Workshop for Teachers – VPCT 2018,
8-10 November, UTAD, Vila Real, Portugal
Physical Computing & Project Based Learning
Case studies: systems built by students from the
1st year of Informatics, IPBeja
The Antarctuino systems
Robotics and STEM in The Classroom & in Antarctica
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
Project ESTeEM Antarctica
Makeblock Rocky
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●New partnership with the Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Sofia,
Bulgaria
Dissemination of the project in the institute's network of schools
Participation on the Sofia Science Festival, 2019
●Support from iridium® for satellite communications during the 2019 campaign
Iridium Go!®
Interact with the teams at schools
✔feedback from the experiments
Posting on the social media
✔updates from the campaign
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
Project ESTeEM Antarctica
Source: Iridum, with permission
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Follow
us on
Antarctic Research & Education Program (AREP)
Project ESTeEM Antarctica
Thank you for your attention!
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