Learning More Festival 2024
Grateful to have been involved once again by Future Education Modena in the Learning More Festival 2024 in Modena. I’m sharing three key takeaways from my two days (November 9-10) at the festival:
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Maker Faire 2024
From October 25 to 27, 2024, I had the opportunity to be at the University of Padua’s stand during the Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition, held at the historic Gazometro Ostiense in Rome. Maker Faire Rome is truly a celebration of innovation, creativity, and the maker spirit—a place where robotics, artificial intelligence, agritech, …
Top 10 Best Performer | STEMpedia International Educator Bootcamp
STEMpedia recognised me as one of the Top 10 Best Performers from the International Educator Bootcamp on AI and Coding with Junior Blocks, a result that came at the end of an engaging learning experience. The bootcamp explored how to bring AI and coding into the classroom in hands-on, accessible ways. What made it particularly …
National Robotics Championships 2024
In early May, I had the privilege of serving as a judge at the final round of the 2024 National Robotics Championships, hosted at the M9 – Museo del ’900 in Mestre. The event brought together 30 selected teams, chosen from over 140 entries, each tasked with designing robotic prototypes to address real-world challenges across …
IRIS 2024
On March 21, 2024, I joined IRIS 2024, the national event organized by the IEEE Women in Engineering Italy Section during STEM Week. The initiative gave schools from preschool to high school a platform to share projects promoting STEM education and gender equality. Among the highlights was I.C. 2 Chioggia (Veneto), which presented “Un tuffo …
EduRobotics Camp | February 19, 2024
On February 19, I had the chance to return — this time not only as a researcher, but also as someone who once belonged to the Équipe Formativa Territoriale of USR Veneto — to help organize a full day of training on educational robotics at the Competence Centre SMACT in Padua, in collaboration with the …
A Dive into STEAM – STEM week at IC Chioggia 2
I recently had the honour of serving as testimonial at the “Un tuffo nelle STEAM” initiative, held at the Istituto Comprensivo Sottomarina Nord in Chioggia, part of the National STEAM Week established by the Italian Ministry of Education. Over four days—from February 5 to 8, 2024—students from primary and secondary schools immersed themselves in a …
Bett London 2024
There were many new things to see — and even more inspiring people to meet — at this year’s Bett in London. Among the many photos I took, I chose this one as a symbol. It’s a simple pendant, a gift from two children from a school in Hong Kong. They were at Bett together …
Science4all 2023
Robots are becoming increasingly present in our daily lives: from toy robots to robot vacuum cleaners, robot lawnmowers, and soon even self-driving cars. Guided by Prof. Menegatti — with my support — students learned what a robot is, how to program it, and how its sensors work. They also built a robot car that was …
Gender Gap & Robotics in Bergamo
On November 21, I was at the University of Bergamo to share the data I have been collecting on the gender gap within a project on robotics and migrant girls. It was a valuable opportunity to discuss these findings with Prof. Pivetti (University of Bergamo), Prof. Datteri (University of Milano-Bicocca), and his research group. Exchanging …