During the innaugural week of school at NAIS Dublin, students across all year groups participated in a school-wide STEAM Week/MIT Challenge called "Street Smarts". Built around the theme of 'navigating tomorrow' the challenge put to our students was to tackle the opportunities and problems inherent in driverless car technology.
[[\media-dublin-blogs\MIT_STEAMWeek_Challenge_condensed.mp4]]Students were divided into teams incorporating multiple year groups, and were first tasked with constructing a model of the South County Business Park, where the school is located. Each team then had to work collaboratively to build and program a model of an autonomous vehicle that could navigate the track and arrive at the school independently.
The lessons and value of the project incorporated a range of disciplines that helped the students understand how their classroom studies translate into solutions for real-life challenges and future developments. Students combined knowledge from a variety of subjects to reach their unique team-based solutions.
The project also took on a wholistic IB learning approach, helping the students develop their social and collaborative skills as well as meta cognitive learning and problem-solving.
In the end students enjoyed a highly collaborative project with their new classmates and friends and participated in a spirited final competition to see which team's vehicle was best able to navigate the roads, roundabouts, trees and buildings to arrive at the final destination--Nord Anglia International School, Dublin!
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When it comes to finding the right school, there are countless data sources to explore. You can pore over the school’s test scores and university destinations, websites, and social media in search of signs that this could be the place.
But some soul-searching is also needed into your own aspirations. What is it, precisely, that you want for your child, beyond vague aims of them being “happy and successful”? It’s a daunting question, and requires reflection around your ideas about learning, community and perhaps even the nature of a meaningful life.
At Nord Anglia Education schools, we encourage our students not only to learn foreign languages but to think, feel, and experience the world through them. Many of our schools around the world, from the United States to Switzerland and from Vietnam to China, offer a world-class bilingual education.
Bilingualism—the ability to communicate fluently in two languages—helps children learn and grow. At our schools, we understand being bilingual helps students truly excel because it boosts their thinking skills, improves decision-making, and enhances communication. Plus, it helps them appreciate other cultures on a deeper level.
Read on for a closer look at all the benefits of bilingualism.
