American students as tutors for creathon with Scratch
For a few days, a delegation of 35 students from theUniversity of Delaware, accompanied by lecturers Katie Wassil and Lori Pollock, has been in Rome to explore the environments of the Palestra dell'Innovazione (Innovation Gymnasium), get to know the experience of the Coding Girls at first hand and animate a creativity marathon with the youngest students.
The delegation then continued the Italian educational experience with two more stops, in Florence (16 and 17 January) and Sorrento (23 and 24 January).
The Rome stop was enriched by the meeting with Ambassador Jack Markell at the headquarters of the US Diplomatic Mission in Italy (see photo gallery).
The three training stages reproduce the same ‘Game On!’ format, an intensive two-day experience: a training session on the first day and a creathon on the second day, in which the classes involved engage in a creative challenge, putting into practice what they have learnt and developing an innovative project with Scratch on a theme that is unveiled on the day.
Today, Friday 10 January, is the day of the challenge which, in addition to the American university students in the role of tutors, involves three classes from the Artemisia Gentileschi Comprehensive Institute in Rome, a school led by headmistress Alessandra Silvestri [see box].
The tutors are Giulia Nardini, Emanuele Coletta and Mohamed Fadiga.
