{"id":867,"date":"2018-04-09T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/?p=867"},"modified":"2018-04-09T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:16:44","slug":"waste-busters-and-start-day-in-s-o-s-project-schools-are-the-publics-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/2018\/04\/09\/waste-busters-and-start-day-in-s-o-s-project-schools-are-the-publics-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWaste busters\u201d and \u201cStarT Day in S.O.S Project Schools\u201d are the public\u2019s favourites!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size: 14pt\">The international public voting has now ended and we are proud to announce that the public&#8217;s favourites are&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>The project team \u201c<\/b><b><i>Waste Busters<\/i><\/b><b>\u201d from Kocaeli, Turkey with their exciting project \u201c<\/b><b><i>Lemna grinder<\/i><\/b><b>\u201d! <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to the students Zeynep Sude \u00c7etin, Bora \u00d6zkan, Zeynep Ey\u00fcpo\u011flu, Berfin El\u00e7in, Kerim Berber, Umay Eskialp, Melike Damla \u00d6zdemir, Asl\u0131han E\u015fkin, Gizem \u0130dil Tun\u00e7bilek and Bilgesu G\u00f6k\u00e7enur!<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">See their video below:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xo_aU0lOxvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The best practice \u201cStarT Day in S.O.S. Project Schools\u201d from Istanbul, Turkey! <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to S.O.S. Project Schools for their amazing collaboration! See their video below:<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVYjoxUZ_XM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xo_aU0lOxvM&amp;list=PLFAM98ZMjI11f9X1A0HJvRrW0tOe_koHJ&amp;index=10\"><b>Waste busters<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d are a group of upper secondary school students from Kocaeli, Turkey who wanted to do something about <\/span><b>the pollution of wetlands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In their brilliant video you can see the students taking advantage of the aquatic plant<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lemna minor <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and its\u2019 capability to act as a bioremediator that removes heavy metals from the water. <\/span><b>The students collaborated with each to create an innovative water purifier<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong> from trash cans, net and solar panels<\/strong>. During the course of their project, the students learnt about water pollution, heavy metals and they also conducted experiments to decide which energy source and which plant would be the best option for the water purifier. Amazing work! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mVYjoxUZ_XM&amp;list=PLFAM98ZMjI10GLq0FkRoWyp43D-N9C7KF&amp;index=7\"><b>S.O.S. Project Schools<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d is an impressive voluntarily coordinated project in Turkey that has truly shown <\/span><b>the power of collaboration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: they have successfully activated <\/span><b>74 project teams<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across Turkey to create projects around the theme of endangered species and wetlands! <\/span><b>The S.O.S. Project Schools had a common theme<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, endangered species and wetlands, and <\/span><b>they activated learning communities around Turkey <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to work around the theme by different means. For example, participating schools had sister schools which allowed the students to exchange and discuss the results and ideas they got from their projects. The project teams collaborated also with local municipalities, associations and universities. The project groups across Turkey then created their projects which included for example drama, exhibitions, interviews, scientific designs, experimental projects, posters, art\u2026 All of these creations were then presented at the StarT Days, which was organized in each of the S.O.S Project Schools. Congratulations to S.O.S Project Schools on your inspiring work! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also the rest of the videos gained an admirable number of views and likes, and we at StarT are really happy to see that the public voting is serving its&#8217; purpose: <\/span><b>sharing the discoveries and innovations created by both young people and passionate educators around the world<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">! Hopefully the videos have helped you by offering plenty of ideas and inspiration for carrying out project-based learning in your own learning communities! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once more, a big thank you for everyone for sharing your great pedagogical innovations and wonderful projects with us and the rest of the world!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winners of the LUMA StarT Awards will be published in the International LUMA StarT Gala <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next step in the StarT 2017\u20132018 is the announcement of <\/span><b>the twenty nominees that continue on to compete for the main prizes of StarT.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The StarT jury consisting of several people is now busy making their decision on the nominees, and they\u2019ll consider your votes when making this decision. On the <\/span><b>16th of April 2018, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">we will announce the <\/span><b>10 best project nominees <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><b>10 best educational practice nominees. From these 20 nominees<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the honorary StarT jury will make the final decision as to who will receive the awards of the international StarT 2017\u20132018. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As such, please note that even though being named as the public\u2019s favourite or a nominee is an incredible achievement and truly something to be proud of, it does not mean that the group has won the grand prize (the International LUMA StarT Award or Education Award)<\/span><\/i><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The International LUMA StarT Award will be given to <\/span><b>three project teams<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the International LUMA StarT Education Award for <\/span><b>three best practices<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and these six groups are the ones that will be winning the trip to Finland to receive their awards in the International LUMA StarT Gala. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The International LUMA <\/b><b>StarT<\/b><b> Gala <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is on <\/span><b>the 5th of June 2018<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Tampere, Finland. The gala is free of charge and everyone is welcome to participate in it. Unfortunately, we can only cover the travel costs of the six\u00a0 teams receiving the International LUMA StarT Awards, but <\/span><b>everyone can watch it livestream <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">via the internet . Read more about the gala and find the links to watch it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/start-gala-2018\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (the link to the livestream of the gala will be added later).<\/span><b> Also, remember to <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/register\/register-as-a-learning-community\/\"><b>register<\/b><\/a><b> as a learning community to the StarT 2018-2019 from May onwards!<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By registering you will receive additional information and support for carrying out StarT projects in your learning community, and the registration does not bind you to anything. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international public voting has now ended and we are proud to announce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,5,8,7],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lemna-minor","tag-public-voting","tag-s-o-s-project-schools","tag-water-purifier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}