2017 News Archive
Here you can read reports and news for the current year. We update the news page as soon as something new and exciting has happened or is planned for. The posts are listed in chronological order: with the latest news first and the oldest last. Everything written on this page is archived year by year (see archive below) so you can always go back and find information from the past.
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5 November 2017
Team Sweden wins in 3rd International 4DFrame Competition in South Korea
Three out of the five two-
It was a busy week for the students, the adults traveling with them from schools and science centers, as well as three parents who also participated in the trip. Besides the actual competition in Gwacheon on 21 October, some of the trip’s highlights included:
• Seeing 4DFrame’s headquarters in Seoul, which included a training session in their educational workshop
• Visiting the Korean National University of Education, participating in the Opening Ceremony of the 2017 Convergence Festival and receiving greetings from South Korea’s Minister of Education
• A chance to interact with similar-
• Visit Inha University in Incheon (a large Korean technology research institution), visits to other cultural attractions in Seoul followed by visits to the Samsung D’lite media interactive exhibition as well as both the Lotte and Nam San towers for day and night views of the capital city
• FREE time for the students to explore by themselves was also built into the schedule
“We at Nordic4DFrame can’t help but believe that both students and adults who had never been in Korea before were part of an experience that they will never forget; both culturally and educationally,” says Tom Callen, the company’s Operations Manager. “Our congratulations to all who participated, and we look forward to hearing how the students will apply their newfound global perspectives in the future.”
15 October 2017
Winners of Third Swedish 4DFrame Competition South Korea-
This will be an unforgettable month in the lives of ten Swedish high school students and their teachers and parents as they travel to South Korea, to take part in the international 4DFrame competition to be held there on 21 October. The five teams—Agnes Sundström and Emmy Renlund (Prima School, Umeå), Sara Lennström and Max Wistedt (Gylle School, Borlänge), Emil Österberg and Elias Hedberg (Skuru School, Nacka), Yara Saleh and Sarah Hams (Wieselgren School, Helsingborg) and Alva Brandt and Elisabeth Dierschke Passikhani (International English School, Lund—were the finalists in Sweden’s third 4DFrame competition.
The competition was held in late May at seven science centres and two KomTeks across Sweden; Vattenhallen (Lund), KomTek (Alingsås), Innovatum (Trollhättan), KomTek (Katrineholm), (Tom Tits Experiment (Södertälje), The Swedish Museum of Science and Technology (Stockholm), 2047 Science Center [The Future’s Museum] (Borlänge), Umevatoriet (Umeå), Exploratoriet (Skellefteå). All the groups of students who competed had the same task to perform in a specified amount of time. An additional part of the challenge was to first make a drawing of what they were going to build as well as describe the math and science principles used in its creation. The winning teams from this stage were then asked to produce a short video describing what they had done as the second part. These were reviewed by an international team of judges from Sweden, Finland and South Korea, and the winners were announced in the summer.
We here at Nordic4DFrame wish the five Swedish teams the best of luck in October’s competition.
12 June 2017
Third 4DFrame Competition in Sweden!
May saw the third 4DFrame competition to be held in Sweden, with the final goal to take students to compete at the international competition to be held in October 2017 at the National Science Museum in Gwacheon, South Korea.
Seven science centers and two KomTeks ran the completion:
• Vattenhallen, Lund
• KomTek, Alingsås
• Innovatum, Trollhättan
• KomTek, Katrineholm
• Tom Tits Experiment, Södertälje
• The Swedish Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm
• 2047 Science Center (The Future’s Museum), Borlänge
• Umevatoriet, Umeå
• Exploratoriet, Skellefteå
This year’s challenge was different than that of the past two. In the earlier competitions, the student teams were tasked to come up with a design that utilized wind power that made their finished model move in some way. The 2017 “Enlightening Imagination” competition challenges them to come up with their own ideas—it does not matter what they build—but it has to follow the guidelines to “Create a tool, a construction or machine that could be good for the environment in the future. The model must contain at least two moving parts.” Not only do they have to come up with their own design, but they must also describe in writing what it does and what scientific principles it uses, but also make a concept drawing of what their object will look like when finished.
The winning students from the Swedish competitions were:
• Agnes Sundström and Emmy Renlund (Prima School, Umeå)
• Sara Lennström and Max Wistedt (Gylle School, Borlänge)
• Emil Österberg and Elias Hedberg, (Skuru School, Nacka)
• Yara Saleh and Sarah Hams (Wieselgren School, Helsingborg)
• Alva Brandt and Elisabeth Dierschke Passikhani (International English School, Lund)
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