IJAO

IJAO (International Junior Art Olympiad)

The event is organized by the Singapore International Children's Media (SICM) under the auspices of the International Ministry of Youth Leadership (SINGAPORE), co -organised by the Federation of Arts Society Singapore (FASS) and the Youth Century International Arts Education Centre (YCAC), and international youth art competition that will bring together more than 100 international institutions and 200 leading artists from over 40 countries around the world. SIMCC and Scholastic Trust Singapore Foundation are Co-organizers to include IJAO into STEAM AHEAD Global Finals Academic Competitions.

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) education has been growing rapidly in the last decade. You've probably heard of the acronym STEM. STEM was introduced in 2001 as a way to refer to careers and/ or curriculum centered around Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) -the most rapidly growing industries in the Global economy. Then as many companies continued to ramp up technological innovation, in order to remain competitive across the globe, the movement around integrating STEM into educational frameworks began to gain a lot of traction.