Experimentation is the process of testing out new ideas or approaches. In the context of the classroom, experimenting helps develop challenging science learning experiences in which the students acquire the intellectual tools to become conscious and responsible actors in their relationship with the world. This approach aims to support the adoption of an inquiry-based approach to science education encouraging the development of meaningful experiences developing the critical mindset of the students as well as increasing their motivation and interest in STEAM topics. Within SteamCity, we are offering an experimentation service in a territory context. Within urban areas, experimentation is often carried out in response to urban challenges such as mobility, waste, well-being, sustainability, or population size. Experimenting on a territory hence means that those proposed solutions can be prototyped, tested, and observed in a real-life setting. Thanks to SteamCity, the objective is to equip the students with open and accessible tools that will enable them to participate in territory experimentations, offering the opportunity to learn from their own successes and failures and share their achievements and results to empower the whole school community. This open culture that we want to promote makes experimentation more accessible and useful to schools and classrooms but also to all the representatives of the territories, from the citizens to the companies, associations, and policymakers. To support this vision, SteamCity is offering experimentation services, to explore new ways of approaching science education while developing citizen science projects. This will include the exploration of ideas and data within territories in innovative ways including the deployment of sensors, the creation of new datasets, the exploration of existing data, the opening of new datasets made available by the schools to engage a larger community, the sharing of this data in efficient and open-mindset ways.

With the objective of encouraging people to act upon this information, creating citizen science governance solutions and feeling empowered in their learning experiences.​