A presentation about School & Enterprise & Community co-operation project "Meidän Kaarina", presented for international teacher guests in Piikkiö 11th Feb 2016

1. ”Our Kaarina”
School - Business - Municipality – Society
Co-operation Project

2. How Everything Started?
RegionalYESorganizedaTeacher-
Entrepreneur Meet-upinKaarina
(inearly2014)
Finland’s EntrepreneurDay–
September5th

3. • Anactiondayfor1st-9thgradestudentsabout entrepreneurship, work
life and surrounding society
• Organized in a co-operation between
– the city administration
– joint elementary schools
– local enterprise associations and companies
• Coordinated by a smallorganizing committee: entrepreneurs, teachers
and the city’s economic development agency (Kaarinan Kehitys Oy)
5thSep2014 4thSep2015

4. Me+You=We(1st–2ndgrades)
– A worklife guest visits a class and discusses with
students about his work
– Children build a ”my strengths box”
Mydreamcity (3rd–4thgrades)
– A land use planning engineer / architectvisits a
class and discusses howcities are planned
– Children build their own dream city from recycled
materials
Me&MyCityvisit (6thgrade)

5. AmazingRace(9thgrade)
– Students visit local companies, city offices and
locations during the day
– Independently, in group of 4-5 youths
– At each location a student group completes a given
task and collect points
– Thebestgroupand thebestclass will be announced
in the end of the day
4schools::25classes::400students
45companies::4hours

6. Youths get to knowlocal businesses…
…theymay use local services,
knowadults and knowwhatthe
city can provide them

7. Businesses get to knowlocal youths…
…theyare ourcustomers and
employees within ten years

8. Theschedule
08.00 Students gathered to their classes, registered their groups
online and got instructions for the day
09.00 – 12.30 Groupsvisited the task locations
13.00 Groupsreturned back to schooland registered the collected
points
13.15 Live stream and announcement of winners
14.00 Prize giving ceremony in a local restaurant
15.00 End of day

9. ExamplesofTask&Organizers
Tilihalme - An accounting company
”Makeasalaryslip calculations”
Paint & Ink - A tattoo entrepreneur
”Doyourowntattoo(ontoanapple)”
Langh Group& Farm
”TractorRally&Createyourownflour”
AnnaSport
”Plan anewdance&fitness movesformusic”

10. …manyothertaskpointorganizers

11. • Points were collected as own notes, ”crowns”, that were
distributedto each task point in advance
• Students registeredtheir collected notes in the website
with their pads or mobile phones
• ”Travel points” were automaticallygiven to students
based on the area theytravelled during the day

12. www.meidankaarina.fi
#meidankaarina
@MeidanKaarina

13. 1stPrize:
SummerJobs
• Winners get summerjob positions foronemonth
• Thecity supports the employingcompanywith
400€ (salary is usually around 700-
800€/month)
• Help forCV and job interviews is provided at
school& organizing committee

14. Thewinning group(and their teachers)got
alimousine ridefromtheschoolto the
prizegiving ceremony.