Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 1 Intel Confidential 11 Action Plan By Delloul Lakhdar & Rula Habash Intel ISEF Educator Academy May 2012 Algeria

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 2 High Level Goals What do you want to accomplish for your school, region or country? Look at long-term (3-5 years) and short-term goals (1-2 years) –Long term goals Implement science inquiry in high schools Institutionalize management of science fairs and science programs for secondary schools and make it an annual competition Increase the number of students participating in science fairs every year by 25% –Short term goals Get approvals from decision makers to support Science Fairs at the NMOE schools Create awareness of science fairs and build a support base of teachers, mentors, volunteers, judges, sponsors..etc. Start a new affiliated fair in one directorate Participate with 3 projects in 2013 and 2014 to Intel ISEF

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 3 Objectives How will you know you succeeded? National Ministry of Education supports with $$ money for science fairs Model replicated across all directorates in 3 years Student participation in affiliated fair increases 25% over a five-year period Volunteers/mentors increases 25% during the school year Systemic curriculum changes underway; 50% of teachers trained in Project Based Learning (or Inquiry research) or new curriculum adopted

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy ActionMeasure success?Who’s Responsible?Deadline? Meet the NMOE officials and present Algeria action plan Get their buy in and supportDelloul LakhdarMay ‘12 Form a Science Fair Committee (SFC) Implementers from NMOE of 5 to 7 people Delloul LakhdarJune ‘12 Translate and localize the international rules and guidelines of Intel ISEF 2013 Teachers and students will have a translated booklet to follow (Participation Kit) Science Fair committee (SFC)July ‘12 Have a meeting with the schools principles in the directorate and explain to them the purpose of having science fairs and how it fits in the project based learning process Meet with 25 school principles as they will be more willing to participate into the science fair when they realize it’s importance Delloul Lakhdar and SFC September ‘12 Request a meeting with math and science teachers in the school directorate to introduce to them to Intel ISEF Meet with science and math teachers who will be familiar with Intel ISEF. Teachers will start encouraging and requesting the students to participate during the beginning of the academic year. Delloul Lakhdar and SFCSeptember ‘12 Affiliate Science Fair with Intel ISEFFair affiliatedRula HabashOctober ‘12 Looking for companies and organizations interested in sponsoring the event Have one sponsor organization/company Delloul LakhdarNovember ‘12 Action Plan – Steps to Meet Your Goals and Objectives

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy ActionMeasure success?Who’s Responsible?Deadline? Conduct a workshop with teachers to discuss the rules and guidelines for the coming Intel ISEF 2013 and address any questions they have. Projects will meet the requirements of the rules and guidelines. Delloul Lakhdar and SFCNovember ‘12 Selection of judgesHaving minimum 10 university professors of different specializations to be named as Judges committee Delloul LakhdarDecember ‘12 Open registration and receiving applications of students Receiving applicationsDelloul Lakhdar and Judges Committee January ‘13 Filter applicationsJudges will filter received applications to qualify projects minimum 50 Judges CommitteeJanuary ‘13 Conduct the science fair and announce final winners to go to Intel ISEF 2013 Successful implementation of the science fair and selecting the best 3 projects to participate at Intel ISEF 2012 SFC and MOEFebruary ‘13 Register the official partyComplete registration of official party going to Intel ISEF Delloul LakhdarMarch ‘13 Finalize projects and complete all required Assist finalists to finalize their projects and complete all required forms SFCMarch-April ‘13 Travel to USParticipate with the 3 projects to Intel ISEF Delloul LakhdarMay ‘13 Action Plan – Steps to Meet Your Goals and Objectives

Intel ISEF 2012 – Educator Academy 6 Intel ISEF Educator Academy Reflection - To be done… As a result of your participation in the 2012 Educator Academy, reflect on your experience –Highlight what your team felt was the key learning from the Educator Academy The contents of the Educator Academy was direct to the point in particular for new comers –Which Shop Talks were the most beneficial for your team? Intel Future Scientists program Sessions about starting new science fairs Exchanging experiences with other countries