Gems Education’s Streamability puts new focus on solving UN SDGs with innovative prototypes

Gems Education’s Streamability puts new focus on solving UN SDGs with innovative prototypes

The driving forces behind the programme, which is primarily for middle school children aged 11-14, include Mrs Asha Alexander, Principal of GEMS Legacy School and Executive Leader – Climate Change at GEMS Education, as well as the school’s Curriculum and Research Developer, Ms Ranjani Ramnath.

Each school team included children of exceptional ability, slower learners, as well as Children of Determination. The teams had no outside assistance from their teachers and had just three weeks to finalise their prototypes and demonstration models.

Ms Ramnath said: “It was wonderful to see the students work together so collaboratively to come up with such ingenious ideas. We wanted the programme to reflect three key pillars: Inclusion, Collaboration and Research based on the STREAM subjects of Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, Art and Mathematics.

“STREAMability has brought together students of various levels of ability to work together in collaboration, mirroring the society they are getting prepared for, giving recognition to those children, and celebrating inclusivity in all its forms. We hope to see that such practices will be taken forward in each of the participating schools.”

GEMS Winchester School – Dubai (WSD) produced a system for recycling wastewater (aptly named ‘No Money Down the Drain’) from children washing their