{"id":885,"date":"2018-04-16T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T09:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/?p=885"},"modified":"2018-05-30T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T07:53:39","slug":"nominees-2018-see-the-final-twenty-contestants-of-the-international-luma-start-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/2018\/04\/16\/nominees-2018-see-the-final-twenty-contestants-of-the-international-luma-start-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominees 2018: See the final twenty contestants of the International LUMA StarT Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The LUMA Centre Finland is proud to share the nominees for the best educational practices and the best projects carried out in learning communities across the world in 2017\u20122018. The videos of these twenty nominees introduce educational practices worth noting and suggest inspiring ideas for carrying out project-based learning in schools and kindergartens. Have a look and let the videos of the top contestants of StarT inspire you!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are proud to announce that the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> StarT jury has chosen the nominees for the International LUMA StarT Awards 2018 as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>The International LUMA StarT Education Award Nominees 2018 (<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/the-best-practices-2018\/\"><b>best practice nominees<\/b><\/a><b>):<\/b><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preschool group Puuhiset Satulaiva, Kirsi Rehunen, <\/span><b>Finland<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Innovation for Creativity Development Association, Suraaya Ayyad, <\/span><b>Jordan<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Junior Karasin University; &#8221;Club 2&#215;2&#8243; from Children and Youth Center for Creative Activities, Halyna Hodovana, <\/span><b>Ukraine<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kulosaaren Yhteiskoulu (Kulosaari Secondary School), Hanna Huhtakallio, <\/span><b>Finland<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Team Chimera, Richard Spencer, <\/span><b>the United Kingdom<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MEF Middle School, Simge Sohtorik, <\/span><b>Turkey<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTA-SZTE Science Education Research Group and Arany J\u00e1nos Primary School Szeged, Erzs\u00e9bet Korom,<\/span><b> Hungary<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S.O.S Project Schools, Nilg\u00fcn Erentay, <\/span><b>Turkey <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1B NMS Stromstra\u00dfe, Katharina Rettenmoser, <\/span><b>Austria<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yl\u00e4myllyn koulu (Yl\u00e4mylly school), Pekka Tarva, <\/span><b>Finland<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>The International LUMA StarT Award Nominees 2018 (<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/the-best-projects-2018\/\"><b>project nominees<\/b><\/a><b>):<\/b><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEcoChange\u201d, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agrupamento de escolas de Alcanena (B\u00e1rbara Correia, Catarina Naia, Guilherme Santos, Jos\u00e9 Coutinho and Maria Farinha), <\/span><b>Portugal<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGrab group versus shovel group\u201d, Automatic parking robot plan (Xu Mohan, Zhang Shuqin, Han Xinxue, Wang Jieting), <\/span><b>China<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cUV Alarm\u201d, Clube Ci\u00eancia Viva ESDMII Braga (Francisco Toldy, Filipe Santos, Raquel Moreira), <\/span><b>Portugal<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Galaxy\u201d, Curious Astronauts (Sabahat Demir, Nergiz Demir, Irmak Acar, \u015eiyar Atak, Cihan G\u00fcng\u00f6r, Oktay Demir, \u0130smail Atan), <\/span><b>Turkey<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOma peli ohjelmoimalla (pragramming your own game)\u201d, Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4n normaalikoulun alakoulu\u00a0 (Primary school of the Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 teacher training school) (Class 3C), <\/span><b>Finland<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTom Yam Kung Project\u201d, National science and technology development agency (Kindergarten school of Thammasat University), <\/span><b>Thailand<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBaret_Care\u201d, <\/span><b>Turkey<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHyppy kivikauden el\u00e4m\u00e4\u00e4n: Talvi\u201d (Jump into the life at the Stone Age: Winter), Day Care Center Piilomets\u00e4, <\/span><b>Finland<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLemna grinder\u201d, WASTE BUSTERS (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, Bilgesu G\u00f6k\u00e7enur), <\/span><b>Turkey<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c#biopolku\u201d (#biopath\u201d), \u00c4\u00e4nekosken lukio (\u00c4\u00e4nekoski Upper Secondary School) (Elina Aaltonen, Arttu Hyt\u00f6nen, Liisa Pulli, Linda Savolainen, Santtu S\u00e4llinen, Sofia Turunen), <\/span><b>Finland<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nominee videos convey <\/span><b>exemplary educational practices that take use of an interdisciplinary approach, and promote collaborative learning and active learning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in general. By watching the videos everyone can benefit from the pedagogical innovations formulated across the world, and make use of the exciting ideas and quintessential methods for carrying out project-based learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>We want to congratulate all the groups that have been chosen as the nominees for the International LUMA StarT Awards 2018, and thank everyone else for their contribution to StarT! <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was incredibly difficult for the StarT jury to make the decision of the nominees of all the impressive videos you submitted. Hopefully you all have had a great and inspiring time both doing your own projects and watching the videos of the other groups! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The final winners will be announced at the International LUMA StarT Gala<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next, the international honorary StarT jury will make the difficult decision as to which of the twenty nominees will be awarded with the grand prizes of StarT. There will be altogether <\/span><b>three projects winning the International LUMA StarT Award <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><b>three best educational practices winning the International LUMA StarT Education Award. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These <\/span><b>six <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">winning groups will be awarded with the trip to Finland to receive their awards at the International StarT Gala 2018. <\/span><b><i>As such, please note that even though being named as a nominee is a remarkable achievement and genuinely 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).<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>We welcome everyone to participate the gala<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at their own cost! However, attending the gala itself is free. If you cannot make it to the gala, <\/span><b>remember to watch the livestream of it<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to find out the final winners! Read more about the gala and find a link to the livestreaming later <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/start-gala-2018\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LUMA Centre Finland is proud to share the nominees for the best [&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":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/start.luma.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}