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For the European Robotics Week (Nov. 28 – Dec. 4), the Fondazione Mondo Digitale has organized a series of educational robotics activities in the schools of Rome. The Training Day in Rome (Dec. 2) was kicked of at the Istituto Santa Maria. Father Luigi Magni, the Rector, emphasized how robots represent an entity that will never substitute mankind, but will help him improve his knowledge, culture and dialogue.
The workday began with an extremely original presentation of robotics for the young on the future of scientific research and didactics. This is how the Rome Acquarium allows all schools to come closer to the world of robots and scientific subjects.
“Robot fish were initially created at the University of Essex, London and now at the Rome Bio-Medico Campus,” explains Admiral Nicola Pavone, Director Generla of the Mediterraneum Acquario in Rome. “Children study the marine environment, mainly the Mediterranean, via exciting 3D projections.”
Michele Baldi, teacher at the first degree secondary school “C. Trezza" di Cava de' Tirreni (Salerno) and expert on educational robotics, and Celestino Rocco, school administrator at the Secondo Circolo didattico in Eboli (Salerno), explained the principles of Robotics in School to students and teachers. First, the laboratory for kids with the bee-robot and the Lego We Do and Mindstorm NXT, then the workshop dedicated to the teachers from 15 Roman schools on the “learning by doing” approach and guidelines to begin experimenting with Robotics in the classroom.
Students demonstrated great interest and enthusiasm and were immediately ready to experiment with the robots. Even the youngest have very clear ideas about their future.
