The municipal education in La Serena includes the first interactive science room

I wrote in region The 29/9/2022 3:23 pm.

At the Carlos Condell de La Haza school there is the first municipal interactive room in La Serena, air-conditioned so that students, together with their teachers, can develop their projects in the fields of robotics, microbes, astronomy and others.

In the context of the Education Department’s 21st Century Skills Plan, the Municipal Schools Interactive Zone seeks to promote interdisciplinary work and cooperation in science and technology, creating networks at the inter-school level, to encourage participation and students in the development of integrated projects such as the problems and challenges of their reality.

The official inauguration and the tricolor ribbon-cutting were attended by community authorities, municipal institution directors, school principals and principals as well as students, teachers, science clubs, planetariums, cell phones, academics, guests and the exhibit of an eminent doctor of astronomy, Rodolfo Angeloni.

For the Secretary General of the Gabriel González Videla Municipal Corporation of La Serena, Ernesto Velasco Rodríguez, this is a continuation of a job but also the beginning of another project. “We are very happy. Today in La Serena there is an interactive room so that students can develop science, astronomy and the entire technological field applied in schools. This is a seed that we hope in a short time will be an interactive Museum 2.0, which allows the introduction of scientific knowledge into educational processes. This is The plan We start with mobile planetariums, we continue the agreement with the University of La Serena and the STEAM project and 21st century skills We have trained 21 teachers in science, technology and astronomy We have delivered 11 robotic groups to 11 educational institutions, so they can develop their own projects This It shows that, from the public, management can also be done on such relevant issues that have to do with the future of humanity, science, technology and astronomy, we can open up and understand a different world.”

For Christian Marin, La Serena’s advisor, the space facilitates the integration of students into the world of science. “We are very pleased with what the institution has developed since the beginning of the school year, what the presentation, the development it has had during these months of the year, in short, how the work of astronomy, science and technology, is promoted with public education. I think it is an additional plus for the municipal institution. We have to That we continue to encourage, so that in the future we have new astronomers, people devoted exclusively to science. The future is in boys and girls, no doubt. I congratulate the initiative and hope it will be repeated in other schools.”

Also in agreement with the initiative, Pia Flores, a student at Marta Brunet Technical High School, gives her opinion. “I think the room is very good. It’s important that we get involved in today’s society and technology. I find it fun too, that there are other ways and not just looking for ourselves. Right now, I love programming as well as robotics. I would like to learn programming and create a bot.”

Currently, 11 municipal educational institutions are engaged in the development of science and technology, promoting the acquisition of 21st century skills through robotics, steam, astronomy and science. In addition to strengthening teachers, through an alliance with the University of La Serena, which began in 2018, with the development of teacher training belonging to these institutions, which also have a scientific and technological seal.