Sensitize 32 minors, between 6 and 9 years old, about the attractions offered by the study of branches related to science and technology as well as awakening their curiosity about these disciplines is the objective of the robotics conference held by the council on the occasion of the International Day of Girls in ICT. The activity is part of the actions promoted by the Presidency and Modernization area to help reduce the digital gender gap, including an institutional motion promoted by the Socialist Group, approved this week by the Presidency and Action plenary Commission Social.
The second vice-president and Minister of the Presidency, Finance and Modernization, Berta Pérez, and the CEO of Equality, Priscila de León, participated in the session, accompanying the students –from three centers in Guamasa, Arona and Guía de Isora– in the activities held at the Technological and Renewable Energy Institute (ITER).
The program included two main activities. In the first, the students visited the ITER Robotics Unit exhibition, in which technicians from the institute showed them some of their R&D projects, such as the Marysol courtesy robot or the Heliodron solar-powered plane. Next, they visited the D-ALiX datacenter, the center from which all Internet services are provided, where the Teide HPC supercomputer is located, and the equipment and server room of the Cabildo and several town halls, which is connected to the entire Island through the fiber optics of the Telecommunications Ring of Tenerife (AITT).
