Educating is intrinsically bound with enabling children to know different environmental, social and relational contexts and to experience different experiences on an ongoing basis. And this is exactly where Science4you tries to focus. The aim is to help the community teaching both children and young people through observation, experimentation and research in the scientific world. Education through experiences, in the long run, leading the human being to become curious, enthusiastic, creative and not just a mere “puppet” of society. In the near future young people will reach working age and become true entrepreneurs, set up companies and will be able to successfully manage, plan and achieve goals.

Hence, it is extremely relevant to educate on a daily basis taking into account that the family context is the first to promote experimentation. Many successful competencies during adult life are directly related to the acquisition of scientific knowledge and skills in the days of youth. It’s very important to have companies and masters encouraging education either through experimentation, as there is an entrepreneurial attitude in the human being that is not 100% native to him, but should be fostered from an early age.

If educators focus and adopt innovation and experimentation based reasoning, children from kindergarten on will be able to surprise them by developing micro-projects that show entrepreneurial discernment. Learning mathematics from an early age may be there via the simple activity of rolling two dice and checking the final result adding the numbers. That is, children can be entrepreneurial if they are subjected to an environment that encourages precisely that.

We ask ourselves how we can launch the economy, schools and universities to “generate” entrepreneurial human beings with science-based roots. There are countless ideas out there, always keeping in mind that “less is more” and never losing focus on simplicity. Here are some examples:

• Regional and national Science Fairs, which promote contests and where groups of children, even from the primary school, present posters, conduct experiments and/or make videos (among other types of content). The idea is that they have the freedom to do so and use resources that promote experimentation.

• Experimentation in the family, from baking a cake (focusing on the concept of yeast, for example), painting a drawing (stimulating the mixing of colours), going down a slide or diving into a pool (explaining concepts of speed and buoyancy), dismantling a coffee machine (focusing on electricity) through to understand the anatomy of a pet. You don’t want anything complex, you want something that is age-oriented and that is almost part of the family situation and routine.

• Science groups in schools: how to recreate what is theoretically learned in the geography, science, physics and chemistry school books on an experimental basis. Like meetings where ideas are debated or group experiences are carried out, always adapted to each age. Or being able to create groups where mathematics is stimulated through, for example, chess game.

We want to show some simple guidelines in a comprehensive way:

• Experimenting is directly related to observation, performing an activity and completing a response. That is, living the experience promotes an immediate capture of the activity “forever”.

• Creating is the greatest purpose of creativity and innovation. Enabling children and young people to invent is a powerful and silent tool for the future of society.

• Challenging is not easy, but it is important that parents and educators share their ideas with children and motivate them to develop a critical spirit about their performances and achievements.

• Communicating should be there if we want young activists, entrepreneurs, questioners and not parasites of society. We are thus central as a company, as educators, as parents, fostering debate and the freedom to share ideas.

In light of this it becomes clear that if we combine education from an early age with experimentation we will have creative young people, entrepreneurs and innovators who will foster a more scientifically stimulated community.