The summer plans of schools that teach robotics, coding and 3D printing

The summer plans of schools that teach robotics

From Rome to Genoa, from Bergamo to Campobasso, for the Summer 2021 School Plan launched by the ministry, the stories of the institutes investing in technology and new skills

Group of robots (photo by Chen Chao / China News Service / Vcg via Getty Images) After a year and a half of distance learning and face-to-face lessons, the Italian school does not go on vacation. Rather. The classrooms have opened the doors to volunteering, to the third sector, to external expert educators and teachers. The Ministry of Education has called it the Summer 2021 School Plan and it is a program of initiatives to enhance learning, recover sociality and better prepare for the restart in September.

Membership is on a voluntary basis. After the phase of reinforcement and strengthening of disciplinary and relational skills, in June, July and August they will be dedicated to creating opportunities for socialization, while in September they will work on recovery. For the school's summer plan, 510 million euros were made available, divided as follows: 150 from the Sostegni decree, 320 from European resources and 40 million from funding for the fight against educational poverty.

The applications received by the ministry of Education were 5,888: 5,162 state schools, 667 peer schools and 59 adult education centers. And in this plan there is no lack of technology, with projects to familiarize themselves with robotics, coding or the use of drones, as Wired found by interviewing schools.

A robot in the classroom

The Galileo Galilei Institute in Rome, known for its excellence in the field of robotics, has planned various laboratories for the summer. As the manager Elisabetta Giustini explains, the first module started a few days ago with football robotics courses: students will learn how to design and assemble the parts of robots that will then be used for the soccer world championships. "We will do a unique activity in Italy: lessons with virtual reality, both in the classroom and in the laboratory, dividing the students so that everyone can follow it at the same time. In this way we will recover part of the activities that inevitably and for Covid reasons we had to reduce ", Giustini underlines.

Stems do not go on vacation

Also at the Guglielmo Technical Institute for the technological sector Marconi di Campobasso, a large space was dedicated to the orientation and dissemination of skills for the disciplines of the stem area (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The idea is to offer students aged 14 to 19 extra-curricular activities that can then also be useful for the return in September. Such as, for example, the robotics project that will develop in the summer months but which will continue in September and throughout 2022.

"We have noticed a great deal of support and willingness on the part of the young people to continue a path training also in summer. Also because many families, due to Covid, cannot afford to go on vacation and thanks to this plan we can offer many young people an educational and creative study plan that can distract, but also help to find a professional path without additional costs for children. parents. For this reason, we are planning drone courses, making and three-dimensional drawing ”explains Annalisa Gaddi, executive assistant of the institute.

Building a seaplane

In Genoa, on the other hand, at the San Nautica School Giorgio, among the initiatives put in place by the manager Paolo Faccia the Hydrofoil course, to create the prototype of a single-seater seaplane. To participate in the project 23 young people who are studying to become shipbuilders. The working groups alternated between the activities of 3D modeling, Cad design and Cam programming, passing from the preparation of materials and the Cnc pantograph to real-time documentation on social networks. The prototype realization times have been respected and tests in the Ligurian Sea are scheduled for the next few months, with the hope of being able to present the finished work for the 100th anniversary celebrations of the institute in October.

3D printing for the future

At Isis Giulio Natta in Bergamo, the outdoor spaces and working methods of the American campuses will be exploited above all. The goal is to help last year middle school students understand which course of study to choose in September, offering them not only theoretical but also practical lessons. The first courses will start on July 1st and provide for a daily attendance ranging from 2 to 3 hours. Among the projects, the realization with the 3D printing of platonic solids. At the end of August, a back-to-school support program was launched, with coding, robotics and fablab laboratories. "The important thing is to direct the young person towards the best study path, and the only way to help him is to teach them to get their hands dirty immediately", says the head teacher Maria Amodeo.


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