Κατηγορία: Extra Curricular Activities

Our school participation in Euroscola 2018 session

On the 27th November 2018 one more Euroscola session was held, in which our school students Christos-Aggelos Konidas and Georgia Manioudaki, accompanied by their Sociology teacher Mrs. Maria Lekka, participated. About 550 students along with their teachers, from 22 groups of the whole European Union, gathered in the chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg for a Eurοscοla session, putting themselves in the position of a European Parliament Member for one day.

In the morning, they had the chance to directly ask their questions to the German European MP Dennis Radtke.

In the afternoon, after discussing and collaborating with their peers from all the countries-members of the EU, they made precise suggestions concerning certain basic issues of the EU (youth employment, immigration, renewable energy and environment, security versus privacy, EU cultural heritage and the future of Europe) and they had the chance to see their suggestions between evaluated by the assembly.

Our students actively participated with questions and remarks during the discussions in groups and in the assembly and gained an unforgettable experience.

Congratulations to all the participants and to our students!

The School Headmaster and Teachers

Collaboration Protocol between #1420 school of Moscow and Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna

On the 6th November 2018 a five-member group of delegates of the #1420 school of Moscow, accompanied by the school Principal and MP for the Municipal District of Moscow, Dr. Antonina Nikolaeva, visited Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna.

On Friday, 9th November 2018, the two schools signed a Collaboration Protocol in the Municipal Council?s Chamber ?Babis Bechlivanidis?. The collaboration between the two schools is under the aegis of the Municipality of Nea Smyrni.

 

Our students? article in ?Chemistry Chronicles?

Congratulations to our students Konstantina Mavroukaki-Karagkouni, Elissavet Papadopoulou and Myrto Papadopoulou on the publication of their article entitled ?Creation of a simple spectrophotometer of atomic emission in the school laboratory? in the current issue of the ?Chemistry Chronicles? journal.

?Chemistry Chronicles? is the official journal of the Greek Chemists? Association and includes both scientific articles and news from the chemistry field. The journal issues published after 2016 are posted on the website: https://www.eex.gr/?/ximika-xroni?/arxeio-teuxon-apo-to-2016

On page 18 of the same issue there is reference to the 3 bronze medals won by the Greek team in the 50th Chemistry Olympiad. Among the 3 distinguished students was Athanasios Fokaidis-Psyllas, student of our school.

Congratulations to the students and their teacher, Dr. Christodoulos Makedonas!

Students? Scientific Publication in the Open Schools Journal for Open Science

Congratulations to the students Zotou Elissavet-Spyridoula and Drakoulakou Georgia on their publications in the European Scientific Student Journal ?Open Schools Journal for Open Science?.

The students? articles present their work from their participation in the after-school club entitled ?European Paths in the Knowledge of Sciences? of the school year 2017-2018, realised by the teacher Ms. Argyri Panagiota, who was responsible for the students? guidance and support during article-writing.
This journal publication is an initiative of the National Documentation Centre and Ellinogermaniki Agogi in the framework of the European project OpenAIRE-Advance, which suggests open access to scientific data and publications. It publishes original articles of students 10-18 years old, from all over Europe, which are reviewed by science researchers and teachers. The articles cover all aspects of Science, Engineering and Technology and publication is free of charge.

The students? publications in the journal issue:

School?s contribution to prevention of earthquakes by Georgia Drakoulakou
and Innovative education: Virtual labs by Elissavet-Spyridoula Zotou.

Graduation ceremony 2018

On 27/6/2018 our school graduation ceremony for the year 2017-2018 was held in Eugenides Foundation.

The main speaker of the ceremony was our school alumnus and Professor in Pharmacology of NKUA Mr. Pantos.

Moreover, the prior teacher and Headmaster of our school Mr. C. Rammos was honoured.

Some photographs of the ceremony follow. You can see more photographs as well as videos by following the links.

  

  

   

 

 

 

The prior school Headmasters Mr. A. Zogas and Mr. C. Rammos with the current Headmaster Mr. C. Fanidis (from right to left)

Father Aristodimos, representative of the Bishop Mr. Symeon

The representative of the Parents and Custodians’ Association Mr. Bouzas

The representative of the School Committee and also our school alumnus and prior school teacher Mr. Zavos

The President of our school Alumni Association Mr. Tsimperdonis

The Vice-Mayor for Education Matters Mr. Syrigos

The Professor in Pharmacology and our school alumnus Mr. Pantos

The lawyer and our school alumnus Ms. Stamouli

Honouring our school prior Headmaster Mr. C. Rammos

The game…

The awarding of the memorial certificates…

And the celebration…

  

 

 

 

  

Art and Technology Exhibition

Photographs of our students? works in the Art and Technology Exhibition in the seat of the Imvrians? Association in Athens, in Nea Smyrni, which will last until the 3rd of May 2018, 18:00 ? 21:00.

The exhibition was organised by the Secondary School teachers Mr. Diamantis, Mrs. Papadaki and Mrs. Kopteridou, some of whom also work in the High School.

             

       

Our school in Athens Science Festival 2018

Some days ago Athens Science Festival 2018 finished. It took place between 24 and 29 April in Technopolis, City of Athens.

Some of our students participated in this feast of science. They represented, apart from our school, the Regional Department of Attica and Cyclades of the Greek Chemists? Association.

More precisely, on Thursday 26/4 our students Isavella Papadopoulou, Myrto Papadopoulou, Evangelia Theodoratou, Christos Karaoglanis, Konstantina Mavroukaki-Karagkouni, Georgia Xagorari, Aikaterina Papatheodorou, Athanasia Sousani, Varvara Karyoti, Andriana Katsabani and Olga Kladi-Morfi, accompanied by the school Chemistry teacher Mr. Christodoulos Makedonas as well as the school Vice-Principal Mr. Sotirios Chasapis, conducted experiments entitled ?Exploiting solar energy with the help of fruits and vegetables of the Greek land?.

For this event, our students constructed DSSC (Dye Sensitized Solar Cells) and studied various natural dyes as sensitizing agents.  Furthermore, they also conducted one more experiment, with which they revealed the role of the intermolecular powers while mixing solutions of different solvents.

Among the visitors was the previous and currently retired Biology teacher of our school, Mrs. Nikoletta Moschopoulou.

Congratulations to our students and their teacher, Dr. Christodoulos Makedonas.

Clubs

STEM Alliance CLUB 2017-2018

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Each year, STEM Alliance carries out major campaigns to raise general awareness about STEM education and careers, in close collaboration with its partners, such as the ongoing STEM Ahead (http://www.stemalliance.eu/stem-ahead-competition).

Are you looking for STEM resources you use to enthuse students in your class?

The STEM Alliance repository of practices is full of resources http://www.stemalliance.eu/resources for inspiring students to STEM careers.

On this page are presented some examples of implementation of the STEM club ?European pathways on science education? of Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna with supervisor Ms. Argyri Panagiota (Mathematician) and members: Avgerinou Aikaterini, Nikiforakis Georgios, Giappas Charalambos, Fragaki Theodora, Gourgouletis Nikolaos, Tsolkas Marios, Bekiaris Dimitrios, Papatheodorou Aikaterina, Drakoulatou Georgia, Lalioti Anastasia, Kiourkzoglou Orestis, Zotou Elissavet, Stamatiadi Sofia, Gogianos Iosif, Karaoglanis Christos, Theodoratou Evangelia,  Diamantis Dimitrios.

1. On the 9th October 2017 we started with ?Xplore Health? http://www.stemalliance.eu/practices/detail?resourceId=12007 for bridging the gap between Responsible Research and Innovation and education.

The main objective was to offer students the possibility to engage in research processes that respond to students? real life and which are co-developed between researchers, higher education students and secondary school students and teachers.

The activity was entitled ?Using the resources for educators? provided by the website of

https://www.xplorehealth.eu/en/students/skin-cancer-exposed. We successfully completed ?Skin cancer into the research microscope of students?.

As introduction to the curiosity about the topic, students researched resources for information about what is cancer and what the steps of cancer diagnosis are. They got deeper knowledge about cancer from the videos that were presented to raise public awareness regarding the importance of detecting the cancer type early. They experimented for carrying out the test in the following Xplore Health virtual laboratory and described the diagnostic method that corresponds to it. Finally, they discussed about the ethical, legal and social aspects related to skin cancer.

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The most important thing was that students had the opportunity to get to know experts? opinion about cancer treatments as Mr. Lembessis Panagiotis (researcher of Biology, PhD Medicine) participated in the STEM class.

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If you are looking for industries and companies in your country for collaboration in science education, you could access the Professional Go Back to School tool http://www.stemalliance.eu/pgbs_tool.

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Students were highly motivated about careers on medicine and biology.

2. ?Take the role of a data scientist to explain the real world? using Texas Instruments: Inspiring Learning ? Interactive maths teaching and learning tools by STEM Alliance repository http://www.stemalliance.eu/practices/detail?resourceId=13716.

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Statistics analysis of ?Data City? were evaluated and students were involved in a number of investigations that were suggested.

The analysis and processing data with this statistics method cultivate the critical and analytics skills that is a requirement and an essential skill in most STEM careers.

Students were activated and took a role of a STEM career as a data mathematician, a data scientist, a data engineer, a research data scientist, a data expert, a data research scientist and assessed, corrected or rejected some of it before moving on to analyze it.

They investigated and made decisions about many different values of continents in the world (e.g. population, food cost, living space etc.).

3. We had the opportunity to learn by playing educational games, by using the educational software https://triseum.com/ (https://triseum.com/calculus/variant/).

From engineering to medicine to 3D graphics, Calculus is a foundational for all STEM careers. However, Calculus courses today have among the highest failure rates of any course on any campus.

4. A MATHS LESSON ? EXPLORING POLYGONS THROUGH THE ?ART GALLERY PROBLEM?

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects the unconnected. Students were to play the role of fire safety company employees. Their task was to find the most efficient placement of fire detectors in a variety of rooms. This type of problem is known as the ?art gallery problem? (http://wild.maths.org/art-galleryproblem). For each room students had to decide where to place fire detectors so that the entire room was covered, using the smallest number of detectors.

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For additional pedagogical value, students designed a Path MATH IN MOTION USING THE TI-INNOVATOR ROVER by the STEM Alliance resources (http://www.stemalliance.eu/practices/detail?resourceId=13716).

It includes (http://www.tcubed.org.uk/nspiring-learning/).

 

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Rhetoric Art Club

Formation of students? groups for practicing the rhetoric art. More precisely:

Realization of Argumentation Competition within the Club. Students are given a topic and they form two groups who try to persuade their audience about their opposing points of view, by developing the appropriate arguments.

Teaching of methodology and of argumentation-making techniques regarding ambiguous topics, both diachronic and contemporary ones

Introduction to the development of ?Spontaneous Speech?, ?Protreptic Speech? and to the ?Meaningful (Expressive) Reading?

The teachers in charge may also invite external collaborators for the preparation of Argumentation Competitions.

Participation in Argumentation Competitions

Teachers in charge: Maria Litsardou, Ioanna Pseftogianni

 

European Paths of Science Knowledge

In the era of the knowledge and information revolution, the use of new technologies in European projects offers new potential to the teaching approach of scientific educational topics.

? Exploitation of resources from the European Schoolnet (http://www.eun.org/)

? Participation in European digital communities for the exploitation of digital resources, tools, applications and innovative teaching and learning practices of the sciences

? Creation and dissemination of new digital educational content through inquiry-based learning scenarios about sciences

? Combination of scientific fields for the realization of interdisciplinary projects

? The European projects offer modern environments of inquiry-based learning of sciences for the connection of the curriculum knowledge with the phenomena of the real world.

? Application and realization of innovative teaching practices aiming at the scientific knowledge approach through the continuous feedback from and collaboration with teachers and students of European schools

Teacher in charge: Panagiota Argyri

 

Chemistry Club of the Evangeliki School of Smyrna: Chemistry in vivo, in vitro and in silico

The Club work is divided into two parts: (a) The first part focuses on the experiment of chemistry. Students will be taught the basic laboratory techniques of classical and instrumental analysis.

(b) The second part focuses on the simulations on a computer. Students will learn how scientists design, for example, a new catalyst or a new medicine and how it is possible to predict properties of chemical compounds that have not been composed in the chemical laboratory yet.

Moreover, students will be prepared for their participation in chemistry competitions, e.g. EUSO 2017 and competition of the Greek Chemists? Association.

Teacher in charge: Christodoulos Makedonas

 

Mathematics Club for the students of the A? Class of the High School

Teacher in charge: Sotirios Hasapis

 

Mathematics Club for the students of the B? Class of the High School

Teacher in charge: Sotirios Hasapis

 

Drama and Music Club

Aim of the Club is the production of an artistic product through the combination of the subjects of the Greek Language, History and Philosophy, Mathematics and Science (the students as receivers ad creators) and the collective artistic creation (preparation and performance of a play).

Scheduled activities of the Club also include participation: a) in theatrical performances within the framework of student drama competitions in Greece and abroad, b) in activities of community interest, c) in school events, and d) in activities concerning contemporary social issues.

Teachers in charge: Kalliopi Siopi, Maria Diakonou, Sofia Gourna

 

Astronomy Club

The Club content aims at the education of students with increased interest in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Its realization will be carried out in collaboration with the Eugenides Foundation and it will include the study of the sky, its observation with a telescope at school, in Eugenides Foundation and in the National Kapodistriakon University of Athens, as well as the theoretical and experimental approach of astrophysical phenomena.

Teacher in charge: Maria Diakonou