I had the opportunity to speak at the LearningMore Festival in Modena, presenting the themes at the heart of my research: why girls drift away from STEM, and what educational robotics can do to change that. The core message is one I keep coming back to: the problem is not girls’ abilities. It’s the invisible …
On February 11th, on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we hosted the #4Edurobotics Camp at the Engineering HUB in Padova — an afternoon training event for teachers of all school levels, organised in collaboration with the Équipe Formativa Territoriale of USR Veneto. My contribution focused on how educational …
On February 4th, together with Prof. Emanuele Menegatti, I took part in the inaugural event of “STEAM in Tour”, organised by Istituto Comprensivo Sottomarina Nord as part of the National STEM Week, with the support of the Municipality of Chioggia. As the opening event of the Week, we shared with students the research and teaching …
On November 14th, as part of the Science4All initiative promoted by the University of Padova, the IAS-Lab team ran two laboratory sessions for lower secondary school students at the Department of Information Engineering. The sessions were led by Profs. Emanuele Menegatti and Michele Moro, Dott. Daniel Fusaro and myself. The question we started from: can …
On November 28th, as part of Job&Orienta 2025, the national fair on orientation, education and work held in Verona, I led a workshop organised by USR Veneto titled “Girls, robots and the future: orienting beyond stereotypes in STEM“. The starting question: why do girls choose STEM pathways less often than boys? The workshop explored how …
On November 24th, I took part in the third appointment of EduRobotics at the SMACT Competence Centre in Padova, organised in collaboration with the Équipe Formativa Territoriale of USR Veneto and the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua. The theme of this edition was the integration of educational robotics and artificial intelligence. During the …
I consider this an important topic because educational robotics turns abstract ideas into concrete, hands-on experiences that build real understanding and metacognitive skills. Seeing the robot as a tool for thinking means it can support not only STEM but also other subjects, offering a versatile context for interdisciplinary learning. Moreover, bringing ER into the classroom …
On October 22nd, the Archivio Antico of Palazzo Bo hosted “Rethinking School in the Age of AI”, an event organised as part of the Padova Digital Week, promoted by the Department of Information Engineering and led by Prof. Emanuele Menegatti. The event brought together voices from academia and schools to reflect on how artificial intelligence …
Gender differences in mathematics: what does the research say, and what can teachers do? A landmark study published in Nature by Martinot et al. on the gender gap in mathematics was the starting point for a deeper reflection — one that I developed into an article for MaddMaths!, the mathematics outreach magazine of SIMAI (Italian …
As a PhD student fighting gender stereotypes through educational robotics, I’m always looking for how they show up in the world. So, tell me: Do you see a subtle stereotype in the choice of cover colors for the “World Robotics” reports? The cover for Industrial Robots? Light blue. The cover for Service Robots? Pink. This …