The Science Engineering and Technology (SET) Challenge organized by the Kivalliq Science Educators Community (KSEC) will return to Kivalliq schools this year.
KSEC has developed and delivered the SET Challenge into Kivalliq schools since 1995.
Initially organized for participants at the Kivalliq Regional Science Fair, its popularity quickly led to the development of a distance delivery model for science education at the regional level.
The SET Challenge is a collection of fun, concrete thematic problems that require cooperation, communication and some science, engineering and technology.
It also reinforces many of the core values of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit traditional knowledge).
It took a one-year hiatus this past year as the students received a Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Challenge, which was delivered by Actua, a national charity that encourages youth to pursue careers in science and technology and was used in the majority of schools across Nunavut.
Longtime KSEC member Glen Brocklebank of Victor Sammurtok School in Chesterfield Inlet confirmed that KSEC would be running its own SET Challenge this year under the banner of Uuksitaaqtut (Target Practice).
He said the new SET Challenge is almost school-ready. When complete, it will be sent out to schools in late March and will be ready for delivery sometime in April.
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