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Science Education & Teacher Training
Our mission: The Science United Project (SUP) aims to responsibly deliver science education to displaced students in informal educational settings.

About Us: Founded in 2017 by Erika Gillette, the Science United Project began in Greece and aims to support science education for displaced children by teaching basic science principles using small, easily-sourced kits. Our sciences kits are designed to be utilized in any kind of educational setting and to be sourced locally for a low cost. Over 5,000 of our science kits have been distributed to 15 NGOs working in camps and community centers around the world. This scalable concept is supported by online video resources that can quickly educate teachers and community leaders how to deliver science lessons in just a few minutes. SUP also provides free teacher trainings for educators and volunteers who wish to teach science to displaced students in informal settings.

SUP is supported by the Blossom Hill Foundation and has partnered with several NGOs and non-profits in Europe.


Our goals: Our project aims to provide displaced students and their teachers with kits and instructional materials to support science in their classrooms. Science education supports socio-scientific decision making and problem-solving, and is important to support genuine scientific literacy for global citizenship. Children around the world who come from conflict-affected areas have experienced an interruption to their education cannot, and very often have not had the opportunities to, engage in meaningful and systematic instruction. Many of these children have recently arrived in refugee camps and community centers that provide them with significant venues to reengage and continue with their education, and for still many others, they provide these children with their very first experiences with education. 
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"I think the greatest moments have been to see the teachers get excited about the children being excited. At the end of the activities, teachers always echo the importance of science and how the children need more of it. They say that it is interdisciplinary, supports the children socially and emotionally, and that it allows them to discover a love of learning." - Dr. Erika Gillette, Founder & Director
"My favorite success story was from a teacher in Athens, Greece who said that after the activities were completed, the children worked together to use their magnets to develop a device for cleaning up the trash around the camp. This demonstrates that the learning continues outside the classroom and they are also engaging in social entrepreneurship to make their own community better." - Dr. Erika Gillette, Founder & Director
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