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President George Vella recently presented the awards of the first edition of the Malta STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Education Awards. The competition is organised by the Science Centre, Pembroke, which forms part of the Directorate for Learning and Assessment Programmes (DLAP), under the president’s patronage.
The Malta STEM Education Awards were established to celebrate outstanding practitioners and entities that foster high quality STEM education practices.
The president said the awards acknowledge the added value of a national policy that focuses on the cohesion of science education, the well-being of the community and development in the world of work. He expressed the wish that more female students take up STEM subjects.