The challenge aimed to promote studying and stimulate curiosity amongst higher main and decrease secondary college students in science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic (STEM) through partaking hands-on experimental actions, in step with the royal initiative of Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, The Princess Royal. In 2016, greater than 3,400 college students from 150 faculties throughout the nation participated in the programme. Activities have been subsequently held all through the yr at collaborating universities and companion organisations, with joint plans to increase the challenge to different provinces nationwide in 2017.
The Children’s University challenge offers alternatives for college kids from main to decrease secondary ranges to participate in enjoyable and difficult scientific experiments, permitting them to expertise studying in a university-like setting. The initiative goals to spark curiosity in science and encourage additional schooling and future careers in STEM fields.
The Children’s University challenge was first launched in Germany earlier than being expanded to different international locations. Children’s University Thailand was established in 2011 underneath the royal initiative of Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, The Princess Royal, following her go to to observe the challenge in the People’s Republic of China.