Hi! We are a team that met together in Steam activities that took place in Athens Solidarity Center (ACE program) this year! We are coming from Egypt, Albania, and Bulgaria, and we are 9-11 years old. We like games, music, drawing, physics, and technology, so experimenting with all these together was fun! Working with “sound -tific situations” this period, made us come up with this name…” Decibel”!

Our Project
It was a three – month project in which we explored with our students the concept of sound, and the way it is perceived and represented in our everyday life, working through music, physics, games, and art! What is sound? Is our body a musical instrument? Can we see the sound?
Discussions about verbal and nonverbal communication, practicing in a music circle, working on team empowerment and active listening was our starting point. Creative musical constructions followed like musical instruments, cup telephones or strip straws to understand meanings like sound, wave, communication etc. Through technology applications and experiments using laser, mirror, and a Bluetooth speaker, we got familiarized with the sound movement and more general with physics and music concepts. After all this experience the most important thing left, was the opportunity to work as a whole team, to learn, to interact, to play and to improvise together!