Repsol and its Foundation will celebrate Science and Energy Week from November 2 to December 3 with fun activities, which will take place virtually in all educational centers in the city, and face-to-face workshops at the Puertollano Cultural Center, with limited capacity and complying with all health measures.
For seven years they have been celebrating this program that this year has become Science and Energy Month with an offer of activities very focused on STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, for its acronym in English).
Since its first edition, more than 33,000 people, including schoolchildren and families, have participated in this initiative, one of the most popular and involved in the city. As every year, the Puertollano City Council collaborates in the transfer of spaces and the dissemination of the event.
Zinkers virtual activities
Fundación Repsol will carry out through its educational platform Zinkers some digital workshops on the world of energy and the energy transition, an activity that brings school curricula content on energy transition, climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030, where they become the protagonists of their learning.
The workshops are aimed at students in 2nd, 4th and 6th grade of Primary, where students will explore the challenges of energy, water, mobility and the Sustainable Development Goals, making different trips in time to know the past, understand the present and imagine the future.
Likewise, through these workshops, 3rd year ESO students will assume different roles to learn about the challenges of the energy transition and climate change. They will have to design the best energy model for a given country in teams and together they will be able to reduce emissions.
To complete the activities in the educational centers, Repsol Volunteers, workers from the Puertollano Industrial Complex, will give online talks focused on the challenges of energy and climate change, within the framework of the 2030 Agenda.
All educational centers in Puertollano may register for these activities by e-mail [email protected]. An expert instructor from Fundación Repsol will lead the session aimed at allowing young people to have fun and consolidate their knowledge.
Face-to-face workshops
In addition to all these activities, Repsol organizes scientific and technological workshops every Saturday in November upon registration at the Puertollano Cultural Center, with limited capacity and respecting anti-Covid-19 measures.
The Casa de la Ciencia de Ciudad Real will be in charge of giving the Scientific Workshops aimed at children from five years old, who will approach science through surprising and entertaining scientific experiments. There will be two passes every Saturday with different activities, at 10.30 am and 12 pm, aimed at various age groups: from 5 to 9 years old and from 9 years old onwards. They will be able to make a car powered by solar and wind energy, a homemade oven, mix different substances to see how they pass from one state to another and they will learn about the uses of carbon dioxide.
At the same time, the Robotics and 3D Printing Workshops will be held given by the entity Wehu-lly.com, experts in 3D printing and robotics, who organize a didactic workshop applied to new technologies. Participants, from 5 years old onwards, will be able to carry out interactive activities learning to 3D print and the secrets of robotics with Arduino.
To guarantee prevention measures against Covid-19, all workshops have a limited capacity for 10 participants in each session and each workshop. These workshops, on both themes, will be held on November 6, 13, 20 and 27 with two shows every Saturday, at 10.30am and 12.00pm.
Registrations for these workshops can be made from today, through www.puertollano.repsol.com and on the websites of the collaborating entities.
II Scientific Film Cycle
This program is completed with the Scientific Film Cycle that is now in its second edition, given the great acceptance it had among the residents of Puertollano in its 2019 edition. The films will be screened at the Ortega Multicines, on the 12th and 20th of November.
On Friday, November 12 at 8:30 p.m. the biopic ‘Radioactive’ about Marie Curie will be screened, aimed at an adult audience and on Saturday, November 20, there will be a children’s morning session at 12 noon, with the screening of the film ‘ Ron gives error ‘, recently released in cinemas throughout Spain.
Edutubers and #SomosFuturo
For those who want to continue learning during Science and Energy Month, they can do so from home through the #SomosFuturo web series. Repsol is committed to young people to let them know about future career opportunities that science, technology, engineering and mathematics, known as STEM disciplines, can provide them.
For this reason, it has promoted the web series # SomosFuturo, in which with videos of Edutubers, youtubers who are dedicated to teaching through the YouTube channel, it encourages technological innovation at school. In them, the mathematicians Clara Grima and David Calle or the scientific disseminators Javier Santaolalla and the biomedical Sandra Ortonobes, among others, bring the world of advanced science closer to young people in a very entertaining way adapted to their language.
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