OPEN SCIENCE SCHOOLING - RETHINKING SCIENCE LEARNING

An ongoing trend shows young students in K12 develop resistance towards science learning and science careers. Tackling this issue to bring back the interest and motivation of students in science and technology learning, we present here the progress of the open science schooling project. The project proposes that science-learning processes should be strongly linked to the students' participation in real-life science challenges in society and to participation in real research and innovation circles. We present here the results of the 1st year deployment of these ideas with students in Poland as well as our views on how this hands-on science learning approach could further benefit from the integration with digital fabrication and making activities.