PROJECTS & Events
Projects
Microworld®
BiOutils, a association promoting scientific education based at the University of Geneva, recently published an interactive book about the role and the importance of microbes in our body: Microworld. This book explains the different implications of microorganisms in our everyday lives, taking into account the latest scientific discoveries on microbiota. The augmented reality, which is a very promising technology, offers a more fun and enjoyable experience for young children, who nowadays are less interested in simply reading. This project contains useful responses to questions that have been wrongly answered by the media. It is also a pedagogical medium for professors in the Canton of Geneva, as the book has been given for free to public schools in Geneva . Moreover, it is currently sold in bookstores, medical offices, and on amazon.
STEM Cells Geneva helped raise important funding for the realization of this project, as well as participate in review sessions to decide the content and presentation of the book.We were interested in contributing to this project, due to its link to the fields of STEM, and its interesting and largely undiscovered topic.
Discovery Center
L'ASAS is a non-profit association in Laos, whose aim is to promote access to education for the youth. Their projects include building schools, promoting hygiene, educating children and much more. One of their projects consists in building a Discovery Center for children to learn about scientific topics, such as the solar system, the human body, microbes and climate change. L'ASAS opened in March 2019 the first Discovery Center in Laos.
This inspiring project encouraged STEM Cells Geneva to participate actively in the construction of an extension to this Discovery Center in 2020. The funds raised in 2019 and 2020 were directed towards the renovation of a building in Luang Prabang, to transform it into a classroom with educative panels about sources of energy, types of electrical circuits and new technologies.
In 2020 and 2021, the Discovery Center served as a shelter for those affected by the pandemic, providing food and resources to those in need. With the pandemic, the process was slowed down, but 15 panels were constructed and are now ready to be approved and installed in the Discovery Center !
We are excited to finalize this project and see the effect it has on the youth in Laos.
KEY DATES
STEM Cells Geneva organises various events during the year, such as presentations, workshops but also bake sales to raise money for the projects we support. Moreover, we will also be present to numerous official events in Geneva and Baltimore that support STEM education.
Events:
Student Involvement Fair at Johns Hopkins - September 2nd 2022
March 21st 2020 - TEDxIIL
February 11th 2020 - Workshop in Luang Prabang to celebrate the 'International Day of Women and Girls in Science"
December 1st 2019 - Course de l'Escalade
October 17th 2019 - IIL Careers Fair (only for IIL students)
March 11th 2019 - Excursion to the EPFL to attend the "Brain Awareness Week" conference.
Events around Geneva:
February 3-7th 2020 - "International Day of Women and Girls in Science", at CERN
September 14-15th 2019 - "EPFL 50 years open doors.", at EPFL
March 14th 2019 - "Geneva Wealthtech Forum", at Campus Biotech
March 11-15th 2019 - "Brain Awareness Week".
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