The European Chain Reaction is a science/art project for primary schools wishing to create, film and upload a "Rube Goldberg / Robert Storm Petersen-like" chain reaction. This project is also a competition! The school which uploads the most astonishing, creative chain reaction not only wins a trophy, but also everlasting respect of all the other participants!! Finally, all short chain reactions will be emerged into ONE BIG EUROPEAN CHAIN REACTION! Go and visit our blog at: www.ecr2022.blogspot.com

Goal

In The European Chain Reaction, primary school children are challenged to build the best Rube-Goldberg-machine. In this STEM-project children's CREATIVITY is put to the test. Problems that WILL arise have to be tackled in the best possible way. Children have to think in steps: What is the problem? / How can we fix it? / We execute! / We evaluate! ... and we start this process over and over again until things work as originally planned. Children are obliged to COOPERATE within school because the chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Teachers who are in the project can achieve a lot of goals in a very short period of time! Besides the obvious goals in science, children learn a LOT about social skills. Children have to learn how to COMMUNICATE with each other in a crisis situation (when things don't work and the deadline is approaching), COLLABORATE closely and they will needs PATIENCE and RESILIENCE if they are to achieve a successful chain reaction.

How we will work

Firstly, pupils introduce themselves in a short video by way of a human chain reaction. This video should be uploaded by Friday December 3rd 2021.
In the next step the teachers and their students will have until Friday January 25th 2022 to create, practise, film and upload a video of their technical chain reaction to a videosite (like Vimeo, Youtube, ...) and embed it in our blog.
When all videos are uploaded to the blog, every school will watch the entries of the other participants and will decide the number of points to award each country. As important as the points given are the comments the students give to each other when commenting on the videos.
On Monday February 14th there will be a newsflash video announcing who will be the winner of the project. The video will be embedded into the website, so everyone can find out how well they scored in this competition and how fabulous the ECR 2022 really is!

Expected results

The main goal of the project is too make children enthusiastic about technology. Each school creates a Rube Goldberg machine. The outcome of the project is the European Chain Reaction (all school Rube Goldberg Machines are combined into one big chain reaction).

Only one school from each country

In this project only one school from each country can take part. We are already 18 countries in the project, but not all European countries are represented. If you are from one of the following counties, there's no room for you..... Sorry!

- Austria     - Belgium     - Catalonia     - Estonia     - Germany     - Hungary     - Iceland     - Latvia     - Lithuania     - Molodova     - North Macedonia     - The Netherlands          - Norway     - Poland     - Serbia     - Slovakia     - Spain     - Sweden

Participants from all other European countries are welcome!