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Training museum professionals to tinker sustainably in the Netherlands
Training museum professionals to tinker sustainably in the Netherlands Together with the Dutch Association of Science Museums and Science Centers (VSC), NEMO organised a tinkering training in NEMO Science Museum in...
Training for secondary school teachers in the Netherlands
Training for implementing sustainability using tinkering activities for secondary school teachers in the Netherlands On the 5th of March and the 11th of April 2024, NEMO organized a training for secondary school...
Two-day experiential seminar on the TINK@School Toolbox for Greek teachers
Two-day experiential seminar on the TINK@School Toolbox, 5-6 April 2024, Athens! The goal of the seminar was to familiarize Primary School teachers with the method of tinkering that can merged with their projects on...
3rd Partners’ Meeting and peer training
The 3rd partners meeting combined with an intensive Peer-to-Peer Training seminar on the upcoming tinkering Toolbox was hosted by MIO-ECSDE in Athens, between 6 & 8 February 2024. During the meeting the partners...
Activity test: Balancing Sculptures
A group of students in 6th grade of Helgafellsskóli Iceland tested two activities that are being developed for the tinkering toolkit of our project Tink@School! The activities are coordinated by Anna Bjarnadóttir and...
Activity test: Make something that moves in a quirky way
A few weeks ago NEMO staff tested one activity that is foreseen to be included in our TINK@SCHOOL project Toolkit. Let’s find out how it went! Thanks Judith Bal and Inka de Pijper for sharing the process and your...
Problem solved through tinkering !
Read bellow how our colleague Ólafur from Iceland, applied the tinkering mentality to solve a practical problem in his surroundings: Upon returning from Milan I went up north to attend to a little eider colony we have...
Our methodology toolkit is ready!
Within the first months of the project a guide for developing Tinkering activities with a focus on sustainability has been prepared.The guide, originally in English language (other languages will follow) is thought to...
Shadow-Art for Sustainability
Can we create interesting shadow art using materials from a recycling bin or items collected during a beach clean-up? Apparently yes, according to our TINK@School team that, during their meeting in Milano (June 2023)...
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