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Calibration test and entrance exam: Information session
Did you know that your students increase their chances of success in a scientific or economics course by participating in a calibration test? What exactly is that calibration test? Is it mandatory for your students? How do they prepare and how can …
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Where you are born determines your chances (not): Interactive workshop
During this interactive workshop, a VIA Don Bosco employee will come to your school to get the students to think critically in an interactive way about the question: 'Does your crib determine your further opportunities in your life?'
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How to organize a successful fundraising campaign: Workshop
During this workshop you will learn everything about how you can organize a fundraising campaign with your class or school. During the workshop you will receive many tips to increase yields.
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Music Production: Workshop
During this workshop you create music yourself. First we consider the building blocks needed to make music: rhythm, harmony and melody. As a music producer you use these building blocks to compose different genres.
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Squares with sparks
Need a surprising piece of math? Or even a nice link with electricity and electronics? In this workshop we look at a simple question, which turns out to be not so simple: dividing a square into smaller squares is child's play, but can we also do …
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Long live bamboo sticks
Bamboo is a technique developed by artist Antoon Versteegde. Bamboo sticks are connected with elastic bands to create large works of art. We look at some of his works, and also examine bamboo sticks ourselves to discover what makes them so strong. …
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Percussion: Initiation
During this workshop, participants will discover through a series of simple exercises how to improvise and vary on percussion instruments, going a lot further than just beating on a drum.
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World music with song and gourd
Music with gourds (also known as water drums) and voice is a unique experience for everyone. Together in a circle of connection, the participants experience an unforgettable musical journey on the border between making music and meditating... …
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Bucket hoe, bucket drum
Do you need expensive instruments to make music? Of course not.
Armed with a set of drumsticks, we get the coolest rhythms out of something as ordinary as a set of buckets. Under the guidance of our enthusiastic music educator and …
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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Drones and Tree Management: STEM Experience
Next school year we will organize a number of STEM experience sessions on drones and tree management. During this STEM session you will discover how drone technology is applied in tree management and forests. You will also learn more about tree …
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Molokaï, the journey of Beauty and Love: Stage performance
Whoever says Molokai, thinks of leprosy and of Father Damien, the man who was elected The Greatest Belgian ever. He chose to move to this grim island of the living dead in order to give the sick who ended up there the most dignified existence …
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