"Teacher, our hot-melt glue gun is out of glue. Can you change it for us?" "Teacher, our circuit is connected!" In the classrooms of Datai Central Primary School, ice cream sticks, tape, power suites, No. five batteries are scattered on the table, and two children play with the parts of their hands, and a technology competition is strained. This is the second Mentougou mountain school science and technology competition held in the morning of April 25th, at the Tai Tai Central Primary School of Mentougou District, Beijing.
This mountain school science and technology competition is sponsored by the Education Committee of Mentougou District of Beijing, and jointly hosted by Mentougou children's palace and Tai Tai Central Primary School. The theme of the competition is "strengthening intercollegiate technology exchanges and building mountain children's dreams". More than 70 students from 9 primary schools in Mentougou District participated in the competition.
"We need to work together to assemble these scattered parts and circuits to create a functioning, solid and beautiful transport cable car." Liu Xinyu, a student from Tai Tai Central Primary School, briefed reporters on the part he assembled.
The activities not only set up the high altitude cable car transportation challenge, test the ability of the students to solve the problem and the comprehensive application ability of the subject knowledge, but also set up a rich scientific and technological experience link. The children ask all kinds of questions around the "fat" of the intelligent robot, and take part in the production of the model and gas model of the ship model and gas, and operate 3D Printers and so on, feel the charm of technology in practice.
Developing children's scientific literacy and developing various forms of science and technology education is an important measure to train scientific and technological innovative talents and help the development of science and technology. "Technological innovation, youth first, so that the mountain baby plug in the wings of technology has always been our goal of unremitting pursuit." Said Duan Changzhang, the principal of the Grand Central Primary School.
In the future, the Mentougou District of Beijing will rely on the development characteristics of the five municipal science and technology demonstration schools to build four district and primary and secondary school science and technology education colleges, which will promote the development of science and technology education in primary and secondary schools in the whole region, cultivate and improve the innovative spirit and practical ability of primary and secondary school students, and improve the comprehensive quality. Chen Jiangfeng, director of the Mentougou District Education Committee, said in an interview with a reporter: "it is particularly important for mountain children to hold scientific and technological innovation competition. We hope that children in mountain areas can enjoy fair and high quality education resources and solve the problem of the fair development of urban and rural education."