This project offers an opportunity to deepen participants’ understanding of the importance and relevance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and their links to a huge range of potential career paths.

This project is designed to give you an opportunity to use STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) skills to develop a solution to a “challenge” you will receive and to do so working with students from the US.

There are four components to the US-Russia STEM project, including:

• A participatory web site where communication and collaboration takes place.
• A virtual meeting platform where team members network, share ideas, make decisions and deliver solutions.
• Training and mentoring sessions facilitated by business volunteers to help your succeed in the project and in the future.
•  Competitions giving you an opportunity to compete in the global environment like real businesses do -- just on a smaller scale.

November 16-22 

A project launch online innovation tournament - an intensive learning experience that engages students in idea-generation and creative collaboration technique. Through a series of activities teams will come up with and present innovative, viable solutions to the Tournament challenge.

Stage One – The US and Russian students create their teams’ identity on the project website.

Stage Two – US - Russia student teams work online to solve a challenge at the Online Innovation Tournament – an entry to the STEM project.

Students - This project will help the US and Russian students maintain and apply their STEM knowledge and skills and combine it with “soft” and entrepreneurial skills to be able to think in a totally new ways, communicate clearly, see new opportunities, adapt to new situations and successfully collaborate  ...