Algebra is like sheet music.
The important thing is not, can you read the music?
It’s: can you hear it?
Niels Bohr (K. Branagh) in Oppenheimer (2023)
Since 2010, The Franco-Danish School’s STEM didactics have evolved in an immersive, transdisciplinary, knowledge-osmotic process on a backdrop of a relation-oriented pedagogy revolving around tryghed (psychological safety), authenticity and respect. Our first pupils are now entering the adult world, allowing us to observe the first in vivo results of our approach, recently
summarized by a professor at Cornell University as “It is very rare to see an undergraduate student being so autonomous and so capable of innovation”. And so it happened that we invented synchrokinesis, a new technique for robotized assembly of space structures in weightlessness. The project
presented here is about sharing our experience in preparing the next generation for the innovation society, specifically computational thinking, AI, sustainability and space faring.
Target Group: Children and youth (6–20, including special needs), families, educators, and enthusiasts in formal (schools, STX, HTX, EUD) and informal (clubs, homeschooling) settings, with outreach to Copenhagen NV.
Activities:
Education: Develop a Montessori chest of drawers website with initially eight modules (e.g., 3D printing, programming, electronics), tested with 200 students via STEAM Camps and daily teaching.
Outreach: Host 20 Tech Tuesdays, engaging 500 participants in workshops, communal dinners and speaker events. Initiate a DIY radio telescope network with H.C. Ørsted Gymnasiet.
Research: Study optimal learning environments and synchrokinesis in teaching. Includes two university exchanges, AIAA SciTech presentations and two publications.
The project is done in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute and consists of developing, testing and distributing teaching material, documenting didactic methods and sparking a local space tech community in Copenhagen NV.