MAYOR OF DIMITROVGRAD MR IVO DIMOV OPENED STEM CENTER AT LYUBEN KARAVELOV SECONDARY SCHOOL
Mayor of Dimitrovgrad Municipality – Mr. Ivo Dimov, the Principal of Lyuben Karavelov Secondary School – Mr. Valentin Hristov, and the Head of the Department of Organizational and Methodological Activities and Control at the Regional Management of the Education – Haskovo – Ms. Rositsa Prakova, opened the new STEM Center, as a modern space for digital skills, innovation and practical science that will inspire the future engineers, researchers and discoverers.
‘The opening of STEM centers is both an investment in the future and in children. Now our efforts are focused on modern and technological education because the world is changing and we must keep up with these changes. I sincerely hope that with the new STEM center the students will have the opportunity to be creative and keep up with modern technologies as an active part of the society. The municipality has always supported such type of investments.’ With these words the mayor Mr. Dimov addressed to those who presented and thanked all the principals and teams who were working on the creation of such modern centers in the schools.
The new STEM center includes two main directions - "Natural Sciences" and "Mathematics and Informatics", combining a modern educational environment with opportunities for practical and creative activities - for laboratory research, for design and 3D prototyping, as well as a studio for audio and video recording. The STEM center was built under the project "Building a school STEM environment and high-tech equipped and connected classrooms" under the National Recovery and Sustainability Plan. The total value of the investment is BGN 363 594,44. Through education in renovated environment, students will be able to turn their knowledge into real practical skills. It is expected that such kind of investment is going to contribute to a new model of learning, aimed at active perception of the world and development of key competencies.
Guests of the event were also the Deputy Head of the Department of Microelectronics at the Technical University - Sofia - Prof. Dr. Georgi Angelov, Dr. Miroslav Andreev from the same Department, Ms Kristina Kulicheva, Director of the Center for Children with Special Educational Needs - Haskovo, education experts, officials, and school principals from the Municipality of Dimitrovgrad.
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