One year after his first visit, Gary Stager, internationally renowned advocate of constructionism and long-time collaborator of Seymour Papert, was back in Padua for a new afternoon of training dedicated to teachers: the workshop “Il futuro è computazionale“ (“The future is computational”), organized and hosted at the Engineering Hub of the Department of Information Engineering …
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 …
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 …
On May 9th, as part of the Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile 2025, the School of Engineering hosted an event at Sala Paladin, Palazzo Moroni, reflecting on how engineering and AI can contribute to sustainable development. Together with Prof. Emanuele Menegatti, our contribution drew a parallel between two scales of the same challenge: AI applied to …
On May 5, 2025, the SMACT Competence Center in Padua hosted an inspiring event: a conference and hands-on workshop with Gary Stager, a visionary educator and internationally acclaimed advocate of constructionism, the learning-by-making philosophy inspired by Seymour Papert. The event — “Il futuro si scrive in codice” — was organized by the Department of Information …