The decision to replace the SET Challenge run by the Kivalliq Science Educators Community (KSEC) with the Actua's STEM Challenge is not a popular one with KSEC co-president Glen Brocklebank of Chesterfield Inlet.

Brocklebank said KSEC was working with interested science teachers in the other two Nunavut regions to promote what the science community had been doing in the Kivalliq for more than 20 years.

He said the Kitikmeot has its own version of the KSEC program called SKY and has been fairly successful with the program, sending students to the Canada-wide Science Fair for a number of years.

SA国际影视传媒淭he Kitikmeot's science fair hasn't been around as long as KSEC's, which in its 20-plus years has had some great mentors like Jim Kreuger in Baker Lake helping to steer us through it,SA国际影视传媒漵aid Brocklebank.

SA国际影视传媒淭he Kitikmeot's programming for its science fair has been done through Actua and they told that company they were looking at doing a territorial challenge.

SA国际影视传媒淎ctua spoke to some KSEC members, who were open to giving it a shot to see what it looked like, so, this year, Actua took on the idea of sending things out to all the schools in Nunavut to do the STEM Challenge, and they're (STEM and SET) really the same thing.

SA国际影视传媒淚t wasn't so much to benefit our region as it was the Kitikmeot and the Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin).SA国际影视传媒�

Brocklebank said the problem he has with the move is that KSEC programming is more reflective of what Kivalliq students are actually all about, and more reflective of community involvement, the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) principles, and what students and teachers see, feel and touch in their schools.

He said KSEC programming was designed in Kivalliq schools for Kivalliq schools.

SA国际影视传媒淧ersonally, I think the challenges we've been delivering for 20 years are a better fit, less dependent on things that have to be done a certain way, and more open to being creative, much like the IQ principles,SA国际影视传媒� he said.

SA国际影视传媒淪o, the challenge is issued and the creativity of the student is at the foreground of how they solve the problem, as opposed to a more structured way that needs to be assembled this way or that in order to really make it work.

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Brocklebank said, based on his experience, there's room for major improvement with the STEM Challenge. He said the delivery should be modelled off of the KSEC model, not Actua's.

SA国际影视传媒淲e really need to get feedback from our schools, and if it comes back that this (STEM) needed some work or wasn't as easy to deliver, then I'll take that feedback back to Actua and promote our stuff,SA国际影视传媒� he said.

SA国际影视传媒淜SEC, as an organization, competes for funding with Actua and I've been around long enough to have been through the times when we didn't have enough money to run our events and had to really trim them back.

SA国际影视传媒淲hen we have a company from the south offer science programming in our schools for two days, they breeze in, do some things, and breeze out.SA国际影视传媒�

Brocklebank said local teachers are heavily invested in local communities and schools. SA国际影视传媒淥ur organization is a complete non-profit with no monetary perks for anyone,SA国际影视传媒� he said. SA国际影视传媒淎nd, the teachers who are our point people delivering our programming in our schools usually believe in what we're doing because, basically, our student base is all the same.SA国际影视传媒�

Brocklebank said he will probably be recommending KSEC goes back to its own SET Challenge. He said he finds it easier to run programming that's designed in the North because it flows naturally.

SA国际影视传媒淭he whole idea of the SET Challenge is to be a fun activity that you can do either with your class or as a school,SA国际影视传媒� he said.

SA国际影视传媒淭he SET Challenge has been a lot of fun at our school and that's not something I want to lose.

SA国际影视传媒淚 don't want to lose touch with what promotes science in our school.SA国际影视传媒�