Making world-renowned STEM education accessible to all young learners in Greece.
ABOUT US
A nonprofit organization, Mathisi Initiative was founded in 2019 by volunteers sharing a passion for learning and exploring today’s fast evolving world. Its mission is to provide pre-high school students with local and affordable access to programs of internationally recognized excellence and relevance, to foster independent and curious learners, critical and creative thinkers, and problem-solving young adults engaged in the world.
We seek academically-rigorous programs designed for young learners, which promote inquiry-led and problem-solving learning, and which reflect today’s scientific and technological knowledge.
We develop collaborations with originators and educators to facilitate their local adaptation and deployment. Through these multiple collaborations, we aim to provide access to school-age learners regardless of their prior academic levels, economic means and location.
OUR ACTIONS
(4th year)
Racecar Challenge, a national autonomous car competition (4th year)
Prerequisite: completing miniRacecar, a free online Python course from the Beaver Works Summer Institute at MIT (BWSI).
For Gymnasio and 1st Lykeio students anywhere in Greece
- Python and robotics simulation
- Completion Certificate from BWSI
- 1st Prize: 1 week BWSI summer camp
Racecar challenge
Registrations for the 2024-25 school year opened on September 18, 2024 and will close on October 18, 2024.
Module Development & Pilot
“CogWorks” Autonomous Cognitive Assistant:
A BWSI’s online and English-based course on machine learning for Lykeio students
Project-based with modules for developing machine learning models that leverage audio, visual and linguistic data
In pilot for the 2023/24 school-year at Pierce - ACG
- BWSI Certificate of Completion
- Foundational mathematical, programming, and data analysis skills, to create algorithms and neural networks from scratch
“Smart Food”, a 7th grade cross-disciplinary STEM course:
Developed and piloted in 2022-2023, with the Moraitis School in Athens and MIT J-WEL
Project-based cross-disciplinary STEM course
- Discovery of interconnections between plants, the food chain, human’s energy needs and the environment, through hands-on activities
- Gymnasio core in Biology, Physics, with data analysis and ML, project building and teamwork
- Teachers’ in-school curriculum development and outcome assessment (140 students)
Summer Camp
In collaboration with MIT-JWEL in summer 2019
STEM multidisciplinary, project-based 2-week program
CHRONOLOGY
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2025
4th Racecar Challenge
2024
2023
2nd Racecar Challenge
“Smart Food” pilot
2022
1st Racecar Challenge
2021
Racecar Challenge
Pilot Module development
2020
Module development
2019
Summer Camp
OUR COLLABORATIONS
Let’s make a difference together !
Become a Sponsor
We live in a changing world with disruptive scientific and technological breakthroughs. Help us facilitate the transmission of the knowledge developed in universities and companies to school-age students and educators, to inspire future adults and contribute to prepare them for a fast-changing world.
Become a Collaborator
Reach out to us if you are a school, an educator or a university student interested in learning more about our actions, in bringing them to your students, or if you are interested in developing educational programs with us.
Become a Volunteer
You are a student, a retiree, a free-lancer or you just want to add to your professional experience: Mathisi needs volunteers to help with different tasks (designing, writing, testing course material, helping with events…). Write to us and let’s start a conversation.
