Research matters most when it leaves the university and reaches the real world. That’s why I’m especially grateful to Alley Oop – Il Sole 24 Ore and Sara Magnacavallo for dedicating space to my work. Seeing your own research told through someone else’s eyes is a rare and valuable experience: it helps you look at …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
Every year, IEEE Women in Engineering Italy Section organize IRIS online event. The initiative involved schools of every level, from preschool to upper secondary, and offered them a national stage to showcase their projects promoting STEM education and gender equality. This year’s program included an inspiring variety of contributions: from hands-on robotics projects to theatrical …