The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization organised under the mentorship of Dr. Ahmed Ghoneim, Managing Executive Director of NMEC, and in cooperation with the Information Technology Department and the Museum’s Educational Department, a training course titled “STEAM for Historical, Cultural and Mathematical Architecture Using GeoGebra”. The course came within Dr. Ahmed Ghoneim’s vision to support innovative sectors of Information Technologies and automation of arts, architecture, history and cultural heritage.
The course targeted mathematical tutors from a number of schools, where they were acquainted with a full theoretical explanation of GeoGebra software, and the basic skills that teachers need to employ the software and use it to learn mathematics on their own, and help school students deepen their understanding of mathematical concepts, mathematical relations, inequalities, theories, functions and mappings.
The course introduced the tutors to the technology of Augmented Reality and the various possibilities of applying such technology within the museological field.
From a practical perspective, the course dealt with a two- and three-dimensional application of artifacts displayed in the Core Exhibition Hall of NMEC, using the Geogebra program, by drawing with points, rays, vectors, polygons, functions and mathematical relations, which resulted in the production of a small-sized stereoscopic pulpit of the Masjid and Madrasa of Abu Bakr Muzher, located at the Core Exhibition Hall of NMEC.
In conclusion, Dr. Ahmed Ghoneim handed out certificates of appreciation to the participants in the training course, where Dr. Ghoneim emphasized on the importance of hosting and organizing training courses and live workshops that enhance the process of enhancing the technological aspects in the historical and cultural sectors.
