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13.02.2024New Scientific Education Projects at CCiTUB
The projects "Feria (TEC) NanoInventum" and "Ari and the Lost City" are the new outreach initiatives of CCiTUB, designed for primary and secondary school students.
With these projects, the aim is to highlight the contributions made by the research support centers at UB to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to research in the archaeological and heritage field. Both projects have received funding from FECYT in the 2022 call and will be developed throughout 2024.
With these contributions, CCiTUB is advancing towards more technological projects by adapting their content to the study conditions of the new generations of students. The ultimate goal is to spark students' interest in technology and science from an early age and to teach them to seek technological solutions to scientific challenges.
Projects
Ari and the Lost City: A Virtual Archaeological Adventure (FCT-22-18492)
The project "Ari and the Lost City: A Virtual Archaeological Adventure" is based on the development of an educational video game, aimed at secondary school students, to showcase the contributions of technology to research in the field of archaeological and cultural heritage. Students will have the opportunity to firsthand and in an engaging manner learn about various experimental analytical techniques associated with archaeology and heritage. This project aims to complement the project "FCT-21-17 400 Core Sustainability Lab: Operació Delta S 2150 (ODS 2150)" where different possibilities offered by the experimental laboratories of a research support center were presented (also in a gamified format, albeit in a different form).
Feria (TEC) NanoInventum: Nano+Technology for the SDGs (FCT-22-17932)
The fair, part of the NanoInventum project, will consist of the exhibition, by primary school students and/or first-year secondary school students, of a series of models (drawn and/or built with 3D technology and/or programmed for a specific action) inspired by nanotechnology with the aim of proposing solutions to sustainability challenges (SDGs of the 2030 Agenda). The project continues the "Feria NanoInventum: Nano for the SDGs," complementing it with a second collaborative event where some of the presented models will have a more technological component (programming with Arduino or similar tools, digital fabrication, etc.). During the fair, students will share their experience with other participants and gather ideas and proposals to improve their model.