On April 17th, we held four workshops presenting SciMaG games to the pupils of elementary schools in Pazin, Croatia. We talked about tiling and crystals and played games: “Open the chest with evolution” and “Assemble and play Sudoku”.
On April 12th, 2025 we participated in the STEM picnic in Rijeka with several activities: Math escape, Treasure hunt around STEM picnic, Assemble and play sudoku, Mathematical card tricks and Mathematical games and puzzles.
On April 11th, 2025, as a part of the visit of the pupils from the school IES LES DUNES from Alicante, Guardamar, our SciMaG partner Prva sušačka hrvatska gimnazija Rijeka presented the SciMaG project and organized a Treasure hunt game “Come and find me at žuta ludnica”.
On Friday, April 11, 2025, the traditional Day of Open Doors was held at the Faculty of Education in Koper. Preschool children from nearby kindergartens participated in various workshops. The mathematics workshop led by dr. Marina Volk was conducted as part of the SciMaG project and, through various activities and games, developed numerous representations of preschool children, which are key to building mathematical thinking in further education.
On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, the first cycle of games as part of the Erasmus project SciMaG was held at the primary school “Osnovna škola heroja Janeza Hribarja u Starem trgu pri Ložu” and in the regional school in Iga vas (SLO).
2nd-grade students took on the role of “builders and architects” and, through activities and educational games, developed spatial thinking, which affects not only the ability to visualize in geometry but also broader abstract-logical thinking.
On April 4th, 2025 we presented the SciMaG project and our game Assemble and Play Sudoku – Vectors to two 3rd grade classes in Ekonomska škola Mije Mirkovića Rijeka.
On March 31st, 2025 we held a project presentation and SciMaG educational games “Assemble and play sudoku”, “Open the chest with evolution” and “I explore” to approximately 60 computer science teachers participating in the County teachers meeting in Rijeka, Croatia.
We are happy to present an article by S. Stajić, S. Đ. Vučković, L. I. Bibić, J. Milanković, A. Ivkov Džigurski, R. Dragović, A. Dragin, M. Solarević and A. Lukić, “How the Flipped Classroom Affects Year Seven Students in Geography Test Results: A Case Study of Two Primary Schools in Serbia”. Sustainability, 2025, 17(6), 2464. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17062464
As a part of Erasmus + project Mul3DiSC, 10 students from IES Rosalia de Castro iz Santiago de Compostela, Spain came to visit Rijeka, Croatia and Prva sušačka hrvatska gimnazija (PSHG). On March 17th, 2025, we presented the SciMaG project to them and developed a Treasure hunt: “Come and find me at Žuta ludnica”.
Additionally, on March 20th, 2025, we held a 3D print workshop for 10 students from Spain and 10 PSHG 2nd-grade students. The task for them was to solve a 3D-printed puzzle and prepare one piece of the puzzle for 3D printing.
We are happy to present an article by M. H. Dlab, B. Crnković, I. Traunkar and V. M. Crnković, “Innovative Approach to Enhancing STEM Skills through Educational Games: Work in Progress” 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Washington, DC, USA, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 0.1109/FIE61694.2024.10893066.
