Turin: 13 upper secondary school teams participate in the final hackathon
“Starting from a website or blog created during the school training sessions, the students, divided into groups, face a communication challenge. They are asked to imagine the promotional launch of a website (and service) in two different modes, digital and analogue...”
Last Friday, the students participated in the challenge, launched for the second final event of the third edition of Project Coding Girls in Turin with 13 teams from four upper secondary schools: G. Sommeiller, Galfer (Galileo-Ferraris) in Turin, Ferrari-Mercurino in Gattinara and Carlo Cattaneo.
The extraordinary professors who helped the students at the Turin Polytechnic Incubator for Innovative Start-ups (I3P) were Marco Corsa, Carmela Accurso, Antonella Andolina, Paola Porta, Alessandra Vai.
Projects selected by Jury
- Best Project - Team 10 from IIS Ferrari-Mercurino in Gattinara (Anna Giulia, Zakarya, Marella, Angela, and Emanuele) with a digital and analogical campaign for their ice-cream parlour
- Most Creative Project - Team 5 from ITC G. Sommelier in Turin (Davide, Giovanni Andrea, Svetlana, Manuela, and Andrea) with a digital and analogical campaign for Project "Fitme"
- Most Involving Project - Team 6 from IIS Galileo-Ferraris in Turin (Virginia, Beatrice, and Greta) with their bold campaign on Project “I Am Not a Prostitute.”
"Proposing a final challenge to groups, to conclude a training course, is extremely useful to encourage healthy competition and stimulate the desire to get involved. The desire to raise the bar and continually challenge oneself is a fundamental driving force for the young’s learning and personal growth. It motivates students to work harder, but also promotes the development of soft skills essential for their personal and professional lives – such as teamwork, time management, decision-making problems in a creative and innovative way, just to name a few – as the students themselves confirmed last Friday in a moment of reflection and feedback, while we were waiting to find out who were the winners of the challenge,” says Elisabetta Gramatica, who coordinated the project developed with the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
“Together with Coaches Raffaele, Marco, Elisa e Debora, in fact, we involved the 13 upper secondary school teams in a communications challenge. We asked them to work on a communication campaign to promote the site or service they had worked on in groups during school training sessions. A creative challenge, which did not involve the sole use - now almost obvious and certainly more familiar to digital natives - of the main social media channels, but also an analogue communication campaign, therefore using more traditional methods, such as Out of Home advertising: billboards, flyers, and brochures. The result? They amazed us, as always.”
