October 4th, 2021

LABS AND WORKSHOPS AT SCHOOL

On the first day at school, pupils were involved in the so-called “marshmallow challenge”. Using some spaghetti, rope and tape their aim was to build a high structure with a marshmallow on top. The winning team reached a height of 56cm. Congratulations!

Then each student presented part of the STEAM timeline the delegations had worked on.

All the students were involved and acted very professionally during their presentations. Good job!

October 5th, 2021

EARTHQUAKES AND ROBOTS AT UNIVERSITY

During the visit to the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) the students were split into two groups. A group had the chance to work on a building construction activity. At the end of the activity the stability of the constructions was tested, by means of a platform that simulated an earthquake.

The second group attended three lessons, about robotics, renewable energies and computer vision, held by University teachers.

Students could see two actual robots: a robot used to clean the air from viruses (even Covid-19!) using UV rays and a second one, built by students from the University, walking and moving inside the building. Amazing!

October 7th, 2021

IT’S SCRATCH TIME!

During the Workshop at school, students worked in pairs on various challenges with Scratch. They had to solve some problems. The aim was to learn some basic aspects of the coding platform, such as events, outputs, inputs, variables and loops. In the second part of the workshop they had to use these notions to programme an artificial intelligence which could complete some simple tasks.

After the workshops pupils listened, by videoconference, to some interviews to people who chose STEAM careers in their life and shared their experience with them.