Academics
Classes at STEM Obour integrate a rigorous academic curriculum with an engaging collaborative environment, with the goal of improving students' social qualities and presentation skills. What makes the STEM system unique is the fact that it is student-based; That is, the students are the center of the educational institution, as it depends on the students to explain and research their concepts referred to.
Skills that students will learn
Researching
Research is an essential skill that every student acquires. The school considers the inference of information through research as the basis for learning. The student will begin to learn this skill while researching concepts in STEM fields as well as literary files, such as English, Arabic, and the second language of the student's choice, to gain a better understanding of them. The student also applies what he learned during the semester through research projects to solve Egypt's problems based on EDP and the scientific method.
Decision Making
Here the student will understand how to meet any academic or personal challenge and how to deal with it in an appropriate manner.
Co-Operation
The student will have to collaborate with each individual, whether it is a presentation group, a capstone group, or a competition group. Collaboration is necessary to unify efforts, produce the highest potential, and obtain satisfactory results.
Capstone Projects
Conducting research is essential at Obour STEM School. Prerequisites for a STEM Postgraduate Diploma Completion of five examination projects divided among the five semesters: 2 projects in grade 10, 2 projects in grade 11, and 1 project in grade 12. These projects are evaluated and presented at the end of each semester. Capstone groups consist of five, four or three individuals. Topics address the finding of new and innovative ways to solve and address the major challenges in Egypt called the 11 Egypt grand challenges. Students should use the scientific approach and Engineering Design Process (EDP) to come up with a practical solution to the required challenge. This solution should not exceed a specific budget.
The capstone project consists of four critical tasks: portfolio, poster, prototype, and journals. Each component has its own evaluation model that must be followed. A portfolio is a documented record of each step the groups take to solve a specific challenge depending on the method of scientific research. A tested and working prototype of the solution proposed by the different problem-solving groups should be submitted on the exhibition day to be evaluated. The poster, which is a brief thumbnail of the documented data in each group's portfolio, is presented to evaluators well in advance of the exhibition day for review. The journals are 5 exams per semester which assure the student of personal reflection, communication between subjects and a capstone project.
At the end of each semester, the exhibition day is assigned to the 3 grades. During the day of the exhibition, a group of external evaluators from university professors in the College of Science and College of Engineering came to the school and graded the students' projects after discussing the projects with them all in the English language.
Solving Egypt Challenges
Academic Writing
presentationa Skills
Our Courses
Most courses at STEM Obour are taught at Honors level; the school doesn’t offer AP course, however. All the courses taught in STEM October during the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades, their types, and their credits are shown in the table below.
Our Grading System
STEM October follows a letter grading system starting from A and ending with D; students scoring bellow D fail the course and receive an F score. The following table shows the interpretations of each grade.