Good morning, Einstein Kids/Parents/Guardians and Teachers.

It is my pleasure to welcome you all to our event today.

“STEM Unites Nations” We combined these two significant concepts today to
celebrate last month’s Science focus and this month’s United Nations focus. And
we came up with this theme: “STEM Unites Nations.” Isn’t this great? It’s timely,
relevant, and uniquely Einstein in approach.
So, what is STEM? STEM, as you all know, is the acronym for science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics. These four fields share an emphasis on innovation,
problem-solving, and critical thinking. And woven together, they help make
countries grow in intellectual capacity and economy. At the other end of our
theme, we have the United Nations. As you also know, this is an
intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain
international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations,
achieve international cooperation, and serve as a center for harmonizing the
actions of nations.
These past few days, we challenged kids with their different skills and abilities.
With the theme, Stem Unites Nations, we conducted different competitions, such
as a Singing Contest, Dance Contest, Creative Visual Arts Challenge, and Inventor’s
Challenge.
In the inventor’s challenge we came up with the “Design Thinking in STEM.” This is
a rather intricate project combining STEM education, design-based thinking, and
the challenges addressed by the UN SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals
Design thinking is a very suitable method in addressing the subjects of the SDGs
since due to their complexity most of the goals require a multidisciplinary
approach which is a core element of the design thinking mindset. Furthermore,
the SDGs are of global interest and require local action. The design thinking
approach usually defines a concrete problem from the local context and develops
the optimal solution for the challenge. Its solution-based approach supports
young learners in nurturing their creativity and preparing an innovative mindset
which is required to openly embrace current and future challenges and
responsibly contribute to our society. We combined STEM and the United Nations
with creative processes to encourage innovative thinking among our Einstein Kids.
As we are wont to say, “Einstein Kids are never too small to think big.”
Parents, we would like to congratulate you for having kids who are now
introduced into the design thinking method and the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals established by the United Nations. This experience has given our Einstein
Kids the opportunity to address challenges with a sense of empathy, viewing a
problem through the eyes of someone actually confronting it.
And we are very much amazed with the ideas the kids came up with. They
grouped themselves and collaborated on each other’s ideas and presented them
to us confidently. We are proud of their creative processes and products. We are
pleased that they did not fail our expectations. They really know how to think out
of the box. Ladies and gentlemen… these are our Einstein Kids! What more can we
say?

Dear parents and guardians, we are very thankful for your support, especially your
kind efforts to make all these things possible, especially with their costumes
today.

Einstein Kids, I am really proud of you. Everyone here… Dr Ophel, Teacher Sofie,
your teachers, and other Einstein staff are likewise proud of you for being able to
show off your abilities and talents. We are all excited to see your different
creations and performances this morning. God bless you all!

Thank you 😊