Tomorrow, Ellen Stafan will meet one hundred young men and women at the Phyrtual Innovation Gym
What will the next victories of science be? How much is there still to discover? What skills and contributions are required of the new generations?
“Mission Rome” will be held tomorrow – Wednesday, May 13 at 10 am – at the Phyrtual Innovation Gym (via del Quadraro 102). The event is promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, the United States Embassy and NASA.
One hundred students will meet Ellen Stofan, Chief Scientist and councillor at NASA, and Carlo Boschetto, a seventy-three year-old Roman inventor, whose passion and creativity has become an example for many Italians.
Mr Stofan will address a range of issues: the Titan Mission, the Mars Express Mission, but also a career in science, the gender divide and the importance of “being passionate and curious.”
The students will discover how the laws of physics help us every day and how people with a simple passion can invent extraordinary solutions and receive a gold medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. We are speaking about Carlo Boschetto, who will speak after Mr Stofan, to present his last inventions at an innovation laboratory for students: the Plant sitter, the vertical lifeguard and Phimostop.
Participants include:
•Alfonso Molina, Professor of Technology Strategy, University of Edinburgh and Scientific Director, Fondazione Mondo Digitale
•Menaka Nayyar, Office of Public Affairs Embassy of the United States
•Ellen Stofan, Chief Scientist – Councillor to the NASA Director for Scientific Programmes
•Carlo Boschetto, Roman inventor and winner of a medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, Switzerland.
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