On Wednesday, July 29th, 2026, Bojan Crnković and Vedrana Mikulić Crnković presented a poster “Educational games for teaching threshold concepts in mathematics” at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026 in Philadelphia, USA.
As the SciMaG project approached its end, over the last couple of months, we held 9 game-based learning education sessions for teachers and students in Rijeka, Croatia, with a total of 48 hours and over 350 participants.
On July 7th, 2026, we held an 8-hour education for lower-grade elementary school teachers in Rijeka, Croatia.
Program of education
| 11.00 –12.30 | About the SciMaG project, Presentation of the developed games, about some challenges in teaching, and what we have done? |
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Break |
| 12.45 – 15.45 | Presentation of SciMaG activities: Treasure hunt in the Pi Rhythm, Turtle plays Sudoku, Assemble and Play Sudoku, Say it in Other Words, Set me up, Reveal the Number, Math bag of puzzles, [ai] explore!. |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | Break |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Development of game-based activities |
On Saturday, July 4th, 2026, we visited STEM picnic at Lake Lepenica, Fužine, Croatia! We presented some of our SciMaG games: Set me up, Math bag of puzzles, Assemble and play Sudoku.
On June 23rd, 2026, we held a 4-hour education Educational games for teaching mathematics.
Program of education
| 9.00 –9.45 | About the SciMaG project, Presentation of the developed games, about some challenges in teaching, and what we have done? |
| 9.45 – 10.30 | Presentation of SciMaG activities: Assemble and Play Sudoku, Open the Chest with Evolution |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 – 11.45 | Presentation of SciMaG activities: Say it in Other Words, Assemble and Play Sudoku, Reveal the Number, Sudoku with Vectors. |
| 11.45 – 12.30 | Development of game-based activities |
Within program Budi++, from June 15th until June 19th 2026, in CTK Rijeka (Center of Technical Culture Rijeka), we presented some of the developed SciMaG games: Assemble and play Sudoku, Say it in other words, Beaver plays Sudoku, Treasure hunt in the Pi Rhythm, Math bag of puzzles.
On June 18th, 2026, we held a 4-hour educational session for geography teachers in Rijeka, Croatia.
Program of the education
| 9:00 – 9:45 | About the SciMaG project, about some challenges in teaching, and what we have done? |
| 9: 45 – 10:30 | Presentation of SciMaG activities: Math bag of puzzles, Reveal the number, Turtle plays Sudoku, Set me up |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Presentation of SciMaG activities: Assemble and Play Sudoku, Say it in other Words, Treasure Hunt in the Pi Rhythm |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Development of game-based activities |
On June 18th, at the opening ceremony of the festival Tobogan at Art kvart Benčić Rijeka, Croatia, we presented some of our SciMaG games: Assemble and play sudoku, Math bag of puzzles.
On June 8th, 2026, we held a workshop including the SciMaG game Sudoku with vectors in Prva sušačka hrvatska gimnazija Rijeka, Croatia.
From 28.05. until 30.05.2026. The Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad hosted the international meeting of the Erasmus+ project. Partners from Croatia and Slovenia have agreed with the local partners on the final activities of the SciMaG project, which will soon end. This three-year project deals with the creation and application of educational games in learning natural sciences. Within the project, more than 100 teachers and students of natural sciences were educated.