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The 11th EPMeeting

Thessaloniki 11th - 16th April 2008 There have been three years in the Comenius Program: Discover your own way to enjoy science at school, where the four schools have been cooperated successfully. The 11th EPMeeting took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, home of Experimental High School of Macedonia University. The contributing schools were M. Ozkan Αnatolian High School (2 teachers and 5 pupils), Βunyan Anatolian High School (8 teachers and 6 pupils) and Liceo Boggio Lera (1 teacher and 5 pupils). This was the last meeting of this program, since it officially ends in 31 August 2008. A representative of the Brussels European School, Mr. Erik Van Haegenbergh, also participated in the meeting. This school, from Belgium, has applied with the Italian and the Greek school for a new Comenius program. The opening ceremony started with a welcome speech of the Headmistress of the school Ms. Eleni Mouzoura and included a shadow theatre, performance of pieces of classical music, songs and folk dances. It is worthy to mention that the whole school participated singing the songs and it was a unique and a very emotional moment, when the whole audience sang J. Lennon’s Imagine. Then, the prize EPM Award ceremony took place for the 2006 best article competition. The coordinator of the program Ali Kalem handed a certificate to the two winners, the Greek pupils A. Deligiorgi and S. Discou. The prize included a trip to the place where the next meeting will be held, probably in Bucharest. THE WINNERS OF THE PRIZE EPM AWARD 2006 The first day of the official program was devoted to presentations about the origin and the history of EPMagazine. During the other working days there was a workshop on Publisher program, guided by the Italian group, since this software is used for printing the Magazine. In addition, every partner school presented its work and informed the other partners about the

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History of Science and Technology

European Pupils Magazine

DURING A PRESENTATION

fulfillment of its tasks. There were interesting presentations about: • the mirror sites, • the self-evaluation of each partner, • new proposed layouts, • the creation of a blog, • the renovation of the Magazine. A lot of discussion was spent about the role of editors, referees and supervising teachers, and the dissemination of the Magazine. The official program ended with sharing of works to be done till

next meeting. In the parallel activities there was an excursion to Halkidiki, where all the participants had a guided tour in Ancient Olynthos. Later they had lunch in Kallithea. In addition they visited the Mayor of Neapoli Mr. N. Ladopouolos, where they had an interesting discussion. They also visited University of Macedonia, where the supervisor of the host school guided them to the library and to a computers lab. Finally they visited the folklore

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SHADOW THEATRE

museum. The farewell dinner took place in a restaurant in the seaside. All partners enjoyed very much their stay in Nikos Georgolios Thessaloniki. Especially the students found this Experimental High School of meeting as a unique chance to know them better, to make new friends, to discuss and to University of Macedonia exchange ideas, and finally to learn a lot about Thessaloniki, Greece the culture and the habits of other people. Perhaps, this was one of the better lessons

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