Sharkya school Profile 2020-2021 december

CEEB CODE: 648006
Sharkya STEM School
WADI EL-NIL STREET

ZAGAZIG EGYPT
44511

Egyptian STEM Model High School (public) owned and operated by the Egyptian
Ministry of Education (MOE Decrees #369 and #382) founded 2018 – 2019 school year

"These schools
(Egyptian STEM
Model Schools) will
serve as centers of
excellence,
contribute to
workforce
development, and
allow enrollment to
a range of gifted
students regardless
of their gender,
social, religious, or
economic
background. "

School Profile

2020-2021

Principal office: +2055/2240040
Principal: Naglaa Abdel -Khalek Maghawry
School counselor office: Reham Ismail El-Ekhtiar , Marwa Adbel-Azeem , Reham Mohamed

School Address: Harayah Raznah, Zagazig, Ash Sharqia Governorate,

Phone numbers: 0552240040

School URL: https://www.facebook.com/sharkiastemschool

Grades Levels: Grade one (10th grade ) 92 students / Grade two (11th grade) 170 / Grade three
(12th grade) 150 students enrolled

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Mission and vision:

Our vision is “Applying distinguished STEM education depending on 21st century skills to face

community challenges.”

Our Mission

➢ Provide students and teachers with STEM culture.
➢ Equip students with modern technology tools.
➢ Develop students' 21st century skills.
➢ Provide professional and save learning and teaching environment.
➢ Give fair chances for students' innovation in different levels.

➢ Encourage positive community partnership environment.

➢ Spread STEM culture among local communities.
➢ Make self-learning and lifelong learning a lifestyle for students and teachers.
➢ Adopt teamwork culture.

School Community

Sharkya STEM School is a Co-school , five-day boarding (residence) and it serves the
educational needs not only for the governorate of Sharkya, the 3rd most populous of the
governorates of Egypt with an area of 4,180 km², but also the other near governorates
which don’t have a STEM school. Our school is in Zagazig city which is located in the
eastern part of the Nile delta, our city Zagazig is a big city with 529,100 people according to
2016 Census, It overlooks the Nile, Mois and Ismailia Lakes, and the Muiz Canal. The city is
located 85 kilometers northeast of Cairo, the capital of Egypt..

Admissions to STEM schools:

Our school gathers bright minds after excelling in grade nine. Students must score above
98% and get the full mark in maths or science or English to be eligible for applying to the school.
students who achieve at least 95% of the total marks in 9th grade must get the full marks in maths
, science and English. Eligible students take an entrance exam (composed of Math, Science, IQ,
and Arabic tests) to select the top 150 students to be admitted to the school. Our school accepts
students under supervision of Ministry of education.

School accreditation

Sharkya STEM high school is a boarding comprehensive three-year public high school that enrolling
students in grades 10 to 12. The school started in the fall of 2018-2019 and it has Grades 10 ,11 and 12 this
Academic year. Sharkya STEM high school is accredited by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Higher
Education & Higher Commission for Scientific Research - HCSR

Education System

One of the most important reasons that makes our school unique is the entire sessions system in the class of 25
students, depending on their discussions, so for every learning outcome, there is a group of 4 students
responsible for searching the concepts, presenting, suggesting extra materials and discussing with the other
class members, and the teacher here is a facilitator, instructor and supporter. In addition, we have practical
sessions that provide understanding, modeling and imagination of scientific concepts in our science labs.

Capstone & student research

In addition, to apply the curriculum into a practical way, students are required to do a project addressing
one of Egypt’s grand challenges. In capstone projects, students work in groups and follow the engineering

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design process to generate innovative solutions for such challenges. The solution must be applicable,
affordable, efficient, and safe. At the end of each semester, the groups exhibit their projects to a group of
experienced and specialized Professors to evaluate them.
The students address one grand challenge every semester. The challenges are:

1- Increase the efficient use of our land through improved use of arid areas (grade 10 Semester 1)
2- Improve the use of alternative energies to reduce our reliance on extracted fuel sources (grade 10

Semester
3- Improve sources of clean water (grade 11 Semester 1)
4- Drive economic vitality in Egypt by increasing the industrial base (grade 11 Semester 2)
5- Work to eradicate public health issues (grade 12 Semester 1)

Academic curriculum

Our school curriculum is an open-ended one; that is, we don’t rely on one resource or
textbook. Students shape their way of learning and choose their resources to meet the concepts
they are required to know and the skills they are supposed to gain. However, there are textbooks
that are extremely recommended by curricular designer, the ones taught in class.

Our curriculum is a STEM integrated curriculum, design-focused and trans- disciplinary,
driven by the Egyptian Grand Challenges (real-world challenges) and capstone projects. Students
meet in subject classes daily, 80 minutes per session, and Capstone classes 80 minutes twice per
week. Grades are given for subjects and for Capstone projects. We have Grade 10, so students
work on their subjects and Capstone projects. While Advanced Placement courses guide some of
the lab experiences for the sciences, there is no Advanced Placement courses (USA College
Board) offered at the school. The student is considered gifted and talented and therefore ALL
courses are deemed honors-level courses. All courses are in English and the official language of
instruction in English.

Activities within the school

Art, Music, P E and Library are our core activities. Our students enrolled in many arts, music
and sport competitions inside and outside the school. For instance, our students in Sharkya got
the second position all over the country in French singing completion held by the French culture
center in 2018/2019 & 2020/2021 academic years.

Students in the school are free to form any club that will enrich their knowledge, skills
and attitudes towards any concept related to their studying and to their identities.

Boarding school experience

As our school is a boarding school, we are taking care of students 24 hours for 4 days
starting on Sunday and they go home by the end of the school day on Thursday, we have boys and
girls in our school, each group has his own accommodation building, they meet if necessarily – for
example preparing for a project or event - under supervision, according to our society values and
customs, our school day starts on 7:30 am to 3:05 pm, then all students go back to the
accommodation building, they conduct many events after the school time, some of them courses
to help their colleagues in the school subjects, or for helping them in some projects.

Fab Lab (digital fabrication)

Sharkya STEM high school is one of other 14 STEM schools in Egypt, which each of them
has its own Fab Lab, which is an environment that promotes innovation and education by
providing collaborative open makerspace equipped with digital fabrication and prototyping
machines & tools and hands-on workshops & training using MIT based curriculum. Students
benefit in many fields from the fab lab and its components, they use laser cutter, mono fab, shop

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bot, 3d printer, and other machines in building their prototypes, they learn how to use all the
machine under supervision of a Lab manager, and practice what they learned in the capstone
project in a safe environment. STEM Fab Lab supports the innovation and de sign work in all
subject areas and capstone projects. With a goal of empowering the students in different sectors,
students are encouraged to participate in designing and making the products they use such as
physical objects and machines to materialize their ideas.

Laboratories within the school

We have other 5 labs, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geology, and Mechanics, the main
purpose of these lab is to help students in applying what they learn in these subjects, in each lab
students do experiments, investigate, practical work, and other work may help them in their
capstone’ projects.

Examination System

Student final scores depend on several stages of evaluation not only the final exam. The student to be assessed to pass
for the next grade, he should achieve 60% in each subject. The evaluation system in grade 3 differs from grades 10
and 11.

For Grades 10 and 11 :

Achievement Score percentage Description Subjects
Practical 30% All
2% An exam is taken every semester All except math.
Classwork & covering the required curriculum.
Attendance 5% All
Capstone 60% Evaluate students’ ability to work All except technology
in different labs and their and activities.
Mid-term 3% understanding of experiments.
For grade 12: All
Including assignments, quizzes and
group collaboration.

Poster 40%, portfolio 10%,
prototype 10% and 40% for 5
journals exams (one every 2 weeks)
to evaluate the individual work and
understanding of each student.

Evaluate the regular attendance of
each student.

Achievement & Score percentage Description Subjects
inventory 20% All except languages
One final year exam is taken to score percentage 30%
URT 40% cover the required curriculum,
including the important concepts of All except languages
Practical 5% the 3 years high school studying in score percentage 50%
Classwork 10% order to be able to get a college
Capstone 20% level All except languages.

An Egyptian standardized test All.
(University Readiness Test) that All except technology
evaluates the students’ and languages.
comprehension of new academic
reading.

Evaluate the student ability to work
in different labs and his
understanding of experiments.

Including assignments, quizzes
group collaboration and attendance.

Poster 40%, portfolio 10%,
prototype 10% and 40% for 5

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journals exams (one every 2 weeks)

to evaluate the individual work and

understanding of each student.

Subject Project 5% Present a research paper in each All except languages
10%.
subject area.

Our school scores come in the form of A+, A, B+, B and … etc.

Score Level Percentage range
A+ Outstanding Student More than 95 %
A Distinguished 90 – 94.99 %

B+ Excellent student 85 – 89.99 %
B Very good student 80 – 84.99 %

C+ Good student 75 – 79.99 %
C Above average 70 – 74.99 %

D+ Average 65 – 69.99 %
D Below average 60 – 64.99 %

F Failed Less than 60 %

Grading and Ranking

School Grading System;

A+ A B+ B C+ C D+ D F
95-100 90-94 85-89 80-84 75-79 70-74 65-69 60-64 0-59

4.0 4.0 3.7 3.7 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.3 0

All students receive grades in their subject courses taken and in the capstone projects. The
school uses a letter grade system for both.

THE SCHOOL DOES NOT RANK ITS STUDENTS. The GPA is unweighted.

Graduation requirements

Successful completion of three years (this is a three-year secondary school) of biology, chemistry,
physics, mechanics, mathematics, Arabic (language and culture), English (language and literature),
a second language (French or German) and Social Studies/ History. Successful completion of
three

years of capstone projects, one per semester.

Arabic English Social maths mechanics physics chemistry biology Geology Second Total Capstone Religion Computer
Language Science
100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 1000 100 100
100 100

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Results of Grades 10 & 11 in the Academic year 2019 – 2020

G11 /124 students G10/ 171 students
A+ 1 A 99
A 92 B+ 71
B+ 30
B1 B1

English Proficiency tests & standardized exams scores

• 3 students got 5.5 in IELTS: Sohaila said /Marina Rafaat/Mohammed Hassan.
• Nouran Hamdy got 6
• 1 student got 120/160 in Dulingo test: Mohanad Moustafa.
• 9 students took the TOEFL

El-sayed Ahmed 97 ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TESTS
Islam Aref 93
Fatma Said 89 140 TOEFL DULINGO
Nourhan El-said 86 120
Sondos Hesham 77 100
Aya El-Kady 76
Ibrahim Gala (not declared ) 80
Ahmed El-azab (not declared) 60
Abdel-Rahman Alaa 86 40
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IELTS

Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Series 4 Series 5 Series 6 Series 7

Adjustments due to community disruptions such as COVID-19

Grading scales and policies, graduation requirements, testing requirements and our academic calendar for
our school did not change during the pandemic while instructional methods and schedules and course
offerings changed. the school applies hybrid learning for the three grades. Only one grade attends face to
face sessions during full school day from 7 a.m. to 3 pm. For one week every month. the other sessions are
given to students through zoom application. Our schedule for the three grades is flexible. students attend
online sessions during the school day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the weeks of online leaning. Teachers
give both face to face and online homework and annual work quizzes.

Awards and Distinctions (2018-2019)

• Two scientific projects : Rana Reda & Habiba Mohamed as a team and Merna Rafaat as the second
team participated in, INTEL ISEF Egypt 2019 and the two projects were accepted to compete on the
republic round .

• 2nd place over all schools in Egypt in singing in Activites de l’AEPF Annee scolaire et universitaire
2018/2019

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• Shahd Elsayed Elsayed was nominated to participate in TSL 2019 International Schools Essay
Competition

• 15 students got scholarships to study in new York academy for sciences.

Awards and Distinctions (2019-2020)

• Mohammed Momen and Ismail Mohammed participated in in the competition of the Arabic
reading challenge 2020. Mohammed Momen got the 8th place and Ismail Mohammed got the second
place .

• Fatma Said got DELF A1 Level in 2019.
• Islam Aref was nominated to participate in TSL 2019 International Schools Essay Competition
• Rana Hussien got YYGS in the USA in the pre-college summer program 2019/2020.
• Nada EL-Melegy got YYAS in Africa in the pre-college summer program 2019/2020.
• Ibrhim Galal and Rana Hussien were chosen to participate in the republic round in BLAST OFF

competition.
• 29 students were selected to participate in the republic round in IESEF competition.
• Omar Hany Mahmoud Gobran was selected to participate in Hippo English Competition , the

republic level.
• Ganna Mohamed won the bronze prize for participating in the International Astronomy and

Astrophysics Competition (IAAC 2020). she scored great points and was placed among the top 20%
of the participants.
• Mahannad Moustafa got MIT SUMMER HSSB PROGRAM 2020
• Osama Soudy, Rana Hussien & Aya Elsheshtawy from Dakahlia STEM won the first place in the
SMART innovative competition organized by Nile University and Zeweil City . They won 20,000
L.E. for their project.
• Raneem Mamdouh, Rawan Ahmed , Fatma Al-Zahraa Ehab with Omar Khaled in October
STEM won Nefham special award in the SMART innovative competition.
• Menna Ramadan ,Menna El-Sayed and Saja Mohamed won Nefham special award in the
SMART innovative competition.
• Yousef Attia and Mohamed Khaled Sharkya STEM with Norhan Shalan and Iman El-
Dereny from Dakahlia STEM won Nefham special award in the SMART innovative competition.
• A bunch of 29 students from grade 11 and grade 12 won scholarships in junior academy while 7
female students were accepted in two programs: junior academy and 1000 girls .
• Two research papers of two teams : Mohannad Mustafa, Islam Aref, Zeyad hisham and
Mahmoud Yehya in a team and Mohammed Mohammed Hassan and Sayed El-Awady in a
team were accepted in 14th international conference of fluid dynamics (ICFD 14 ) 18th &19th
December 2020 at Cairo university under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Farouk , Zagazig university.
• 15 students are accepted in the Qualification round in the (IYMC) international youth math
challenge 2020: 8 students gold honor ,4 students silver honor, 3 students bronze honor on
15/12/2020.
• Fatma said is qualified by the Bronze medal in the Arab Maths Olympiad on the regional level
15/12/2020.
• Aliaa Ibrahim, Malak Ahmed and Habiba Mohammed are qualified in the first round in
tomorrow's leaders scholarship 19/12/2020.
• Rana Hussien got accepted to study biochemistry in Eckerd college in the USA.
• Rana Hussien got accepted to study biochemistry in the university of Tampa in the USA.
• Omar El-Said got a partial scholarship in Wilkes university to study mechanical engineering.
• Marina Rafaat got the diplôme d'études en langue (DELF) A2, Malak Ahmed A1,Nada El-
melegyA1,Ahmed El-Malky A1,Ismail Mohamed El-Sayed A1, Osama Soudy A1
• Zeyad Hesham got a partial scholarship in Arizona state university to study computational and
mathematical sciences.

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• Salah Eldin Galal got a partial scholarship in Arizona state university to study computation.
• Mohammed Hassan got a partial scholarship in Arizona state University to study aerospace

engineering& astronomy.
• Mohammed Hassan got a partial scholarship in Missouri state University to study aerospace

engineering.
• Hazem Ihab got a partial scholarship in Jacksonville university to study mechanical engineering.
• Mohammed Maher got a partial scholarship in Wilkes university to study mechanical

engineering.
• Ali Younes got a partial scholarship in Juniata university to study biology.
• Omar El-said got a partial scholarship in Arizona State university to study sustainable

engineering.
• Menna Ramadan , Menna Tolba and Saga Mohamed got a partial scholarship in Tulane pre-

college program .
• Mohaned Moustafa got a partial scholarship in Illinois institute of technology to study biology.
• Mohamed Farag got a partial scholarship in Ohio northern university to study computer science.
• Zeyad Hesham got a partial scholarship in Illinois institute of technology to study AI.
• Ahmed Tarek got a partial scholarship in Florida institute of technology to study computer

science.

Awards and Distinctions (2020-2021)

• Osama Soudy got a partial scholarship in Trinity college to study business and entrepreneurship.
• Salah-Eldeen Galal are accepted in the Arab space pioneers programme in the UAE 2021.
• Omar El-Saeed is accepted in the American University in Beirut 2021.
• Menna Tolba, Moustafa Medhat, Mohammed Abdel-Nasser, Rodina Abdel-Nasser, Sama

Hegazy are accepted in YYAS 2021.
• 9 students are accepted in Tulane summer programme.
• Ahmed Abdallah got the first place in the category of ROBO Robotics and Intelligent Machines

in ISEF competition.
• Aya Yasser got the third place in ENMC Engineering Mechanics in ISEF competition.
• Mariam Tawfik got accepted in the experimental digital team.
• Menna Tolba is accepted in YYGS 2021.
• Menna Ramadan got accepted in Adelphi summer program.
• Hossam Mohamed got accepted in oxford clinical anatomy summer program.
• Publishing a research paper written by 4 students in grade 12 in the journal of advanced research

in fluid mechanics and thermal sciences.
• 6 students got accepted in Black College Institute.
• Bassant Mohamed and Mahmoud Haitham are accepted in Education USA academy virtual

connect program 2021.
• Ahmed Abdel-Khalek got accepted in Mity summer program full scholarship.
• 12 students are accepted in 2021 Pharmacy Summer Institute Buffalo university.
• Maive Maged got accepted in 1000 girls in New York academy of sciences.
• Hager Rezk and Ahmed Osama got accepted in Turkish governmental scholarship for studying

engineering.
• Yousef Attia and Moustafa Mourtada got accepted in NYU Maths summer program.
• Mohammed Abdel-Nasser got accepted in YIRLI, Upper line code and World Business Academy

Summer programmes.
• Ahmed Osama and Hager Rezk got full scholarship in Turkey to study engineering.
• Malak Mohammed Mohsen got full scholarship to study veterinary in Turkey.

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• Nourhan El-Said, salma Osman.sondos Askar,Jihan Abd-Allah got partial scholarship to study
Biomedical in Zeweil City.

• Rana Hussein got a full scholarship in zeweil city and Masr El-Kheir foundation to study
Biomedical.

• Tasneem Mobasher, Sohaila Said, Mohamed Maher ,Amera Sameh , Sama Hossam and
Mohamed abdel-Moreed got partial scholarships in the E-JUST .

• Lama Emad is to give a presentation about the idea of her capstone project in the regional
water conference.

• Rofaida got the nineth place in the "yes, we can " competition under the supervision of Randa
Shahin and Dr. Abeer Hamed.

• 1 student got the silver medal, and 7 students got the bronze medal in the international
astronomy and astrophysics competition.

• Mohamed Emad became an ambassador in the international astronomy and astrophysics
competition.

• Ahmed Mohsen Abdel Sattar 's project in the Undergraduate research forum got a place in the
highest ten places.

• Maha Atif Mohamed got the place of 2nd category in the TSL International School Essay
Competition.

• Marwan Mohamed Elsaid reached the semi-final round in the global Hippo Association 9th
International English language Olympiad.

Post High School University Matriculations (Class of 2020/2021)

Governmental universities

Faculty Number of GOVERNMENTAL
students UNIVERSITIES
joined

1 Medicine 17

2 Veterinary 21
medicine
25
3 pharmacy 11 20 21 22
2
4 Physical 17
therapy 2
15 11
5 Artificial 11
intelligence
10

6 Engineering 14 54
11 22
7 Computer
science 4 0
22
8 Applied arts 104
students
9 science

Total

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Private universities in Egypt

COLLEGES IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES

architecture
bio medical science

medicine
pharmacy

physical engineering
therapy

computer
science

1. The Japanese Egyptian university 10 students (engineering, computer science& pharmacy)
2. Zeweil city for STEM 2 students (engineering &biomedical science)
3. The Egyptian Russian university 5 students (engineering & oral and dental medicine)
4. MTI university 1 student (medicine)
5. Future university 1 student (oral and dental medicine)
6. 6th October university 1 student (computer science)
7. MTI university 1 student (physical therapy)
8. ACU university 1 student (oral and dental medicine)
9. MIU university 1 student (engineering)
10. The Egyptian Chinese university 1 student (physical therapy)

Universities around the world

• Turkey governmental universities 2 students (architecture & veterinary medicine)

Post High School University Matriculations (Class of 2021/2022)

• Mohammed Abdel-Nasser got a full need -based scholarship in Davidson university in the USA
for studying German literature.

• Marawan Moustafa got a full scholarship in the (ALA) African leadership academy.

Contact Information

School Principal : [email protected] ( +20 )111 638 0362
School Official Mail: [email protected] tel:ephone : (+20) 55/2240040

School Counseling Team

Reham Ismail El-Ekhtiar: [email protected] (+2) 01552072558
Marwa Abdel-Azeem : +20 102 100 1366
Reham Mohamed : +20 106 002 5779

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