STEMzone Update from Grade 5 “Action News” Group

The STEMzone will be open from the start of the new school year and provide our learners and teachers with multiple inspiring, collaborative learning areas. The design delivers a solution for not only housing modern STEM facilities but also converting underutilised and older areas into additional classes and communal spaces. The modern facilities will include a Fab Lab, material workshop, IT spaces and more. Grade 5’s “Action News” group has been working on school news this year. They helped create this news update about the state-of-the-art STEMzone.

STATE-OF-THE-ART STEM FACILITIES IN 2021

Antwerp International School (AIS)  is currently in the final stages of a €2+ million upgrade and redesign of its STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) facilities. The construction project began in the winter of 2020. The school strongly believes that STEM is a “language” that every child should be proficient in, regardless of whether they pursue an engineering or humanities-based career. 

BUILDING THE FUTURE

Our ambition is that this new area will develop into the heart of the campus where students and teachers work and learn together. 

The new space will increase the excitement and interest in STEM subjects and will provide hands-on STEM opportunities, provide early exposure of the youngest students to STEM and encourage STEM participation by girls. It will also emphasise the development of creativity, innovation, analytical thinking and collaboration through STEM studies.

There is often an ‘A’ for arts added to STEM, transforming it to STEAM. However, due to the physical separation of our Fine Arts Centre at AIS, we have decided to only name our current project STEMzone.

AIS SINCE 1967. A MODERN PATH TO SUCCESS!

AIS offers the globally recognised International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme and Diploma Programme for students from age 3 to 18. AIS is also a proud member of the oldest accrediting association in the United States, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).