SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 23. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Science and Technology Park (PCTT) and with the collaboration of the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, celebrates Talentum Future to promote the scientific vocations of more than a thousand young people from the 33 educational centers that participated in the event.
The students have presented their projects on Tuesday at the Auditorio de Tenerife to show the results of all the work done during the program. The most common technological fields in the initiatives presented were robotics and Arduino programming, electronics, the use of augmented reality, video game design, 2D and 3D animation, gamified experiences, 3D design and manufacturing, digital and audiovisual communication, among others.
The First Vice President and Island Councilor for Innovation, Enrique Arriaga, and the Island Director of the area, Aránzazu Artal, attended this meeting. During his speech, Arriaga valued “the great work carried out by both the students and the teachers who have guided them” and highlighted the importance of awakening interest in science among the little ones so that perhaps, one day, we will have here important scientists, astronomers or engineers”
Talentum Future is a learning program aimed at young people between the ages of 6 and 18 who are in the educational stages of primary, secondary, high school and professional training. The objective of this program is to arouse their scientific interest, through educational robotics, programming and STEAM areas, that is, those linked to science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
Every year the project proposes a challenge to the educational centers, so that the students can propose a technological solution to a real problem in their environment within the framework of the 2030 Canary Islands Agenda for Sustainable Development. This year the Talentum Future challenge is called Talent, Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship.
The initiative is divided into three phases. In the first, a research work is carried out, to conceive the idea that will later materialize. Next, in the prototyping phase, we proceed to the creation and experimentation of the project, with the last phase of the project being its presentation and defense.
The objective is to promote students’ innovation skills through active learning. In this way, it seeks to identify and develop skills that make it easier for students to choose their professional career, as well as educate in values linked to innovation, an entrepreneurial attitude and creative thinking.
Of the 33 participating centers this year in Talentum Future, 24 come from Tenerife, three are from Gran Canaria, another three come from Lanzarote, two are from La Palma and one from La Gomera.
Specifically, the CEIP Alonso Nava y Grimón, CEIP Campino, CEIP San Matías, CEIP Acentejo, CEIP El Draguillo, CEIP Fray Albino, CEIP Miguel Pintor González, CEIP San Fernando, Pureza de María Santa Cruz, IES Alcalde Bernabé Rodríguez, IES participated. Andrés Bello, IES El Sobradillo, IES Geneto, IES Güímar, IES La Orotava – Manuel González Pérez, IES Los Cristianos, IES Lucas Martín Espino, IES Marina Cebrián, IES Professor Martín Miranda, IES San Matías, IES Teobaldo Power, IES Viera and Clavijo, IES Tomás de Iriarte, CEIP JOSÉ LUIS ALBENDA Y GÓMEZ DE ARANDA, CIFP César Manrique, CEIP León y Castillo, CEIP Pintor Manolo Millares, IES Guía, CEO Santiago Apóstol, IES Eusebio Barreto Lorenzo, CEIP Argana Alta, CIFP Zonzamas, IES Would do.
