Iis Luigi Calamatta returns to Civitavecchia as a winner. Invited to participate in the “Palermo Scuola Futura Campus” event, the traveling campus of the Pnrr Education to promote training on innovative teaching and the challenges of the Pnrr, which took place from Friday 17 to Tuesday 21 May in the Sicilian capital, wins first place in the “Future School in Canoe” contest. Around 2200 students participated in the “Palermo Scuola Futura Campus” event, involved in workshops, visits and participation in educational activities; 1300 teachers, managers, administrative staff participating in training activities and 440 schools involved in the various teaching and training activities. The Iis Luigi Calamatta participated in the “Scuola Futura in Canoa” contest within the event with a team made up of Ginevra Ciancaleoni, Sofia Zena, Giordano Floris, Alessandro Pazzaglia accompanied by Professor Vittorio Casalini.
The competition was of a combined type, it included an Olympic canoe competition “2 pairs” sprint 200 meters and a mathematical-statistical competition for the analysis of the data collected during the sports competition, both the physical monitoring data of the athletes involved and the pure parameters of sports performance. The sporting performance and the performance of logical mathematical skills and public speaking determined the ranking, which was drawn up by adding the scores obtained in the sporting test with the scores of the logical mathematical skills test. Six nautical institutes are involved: Iis Luigi Calamatta of Civitavecchia, Iis Buccari-Marconi of Cagliari, Isis Duca degli Abruzzi of Catania, Iis Vendramin Corner of Venice, Iis E. Fermi of Bagnara Calabra, the Itn N.Bixio-Piano Sorrento of Piano di Sorrento. In the five days in which they were involved Ginevra Ciancaleoni, Sofia Zena, Giordano Floris, Alessandro Pazzaglia competed in the morning divided into the rowing tests in men’s and women’s crews, while in the afternoon they worked together in processing the data they had collected in the morning via of the sensors they wore in competitions. On a sporting level they brilliantly concluded the group stage in the top places, they won the final by beating the two crews from Catania and in the presence of Minister Valditara they brilliantly and easily won the women’s final against the crew from Cagliari and with great determination and competitive spirit the men’s final against the very strong teammates from Cagliari. In demonstrating their possession of logical, mathematical and public speaking skills, they created and presented a correct and punctual paper from a scientific point of view, captivating from a graphic point of view and above all exposed in a clear and exhaustive way in the three minutes that each team had available. .
The combination of scores in the sports performance and scientific skills test was not revealed until the winner was announced in the final ceremony on Tuesday afternoon at the Politeama Theatre. Until the end the boys were suspended and then moved to free themselves in thanks by going on stage in a theater packed with authorities, including the Minister, the mayor of Palermo, Undersecretaries but above all a sea of boys. The head teacher Giovannina Corvaia, who was unable to accompany the children due to a family problem, on behalf of the entire institute congratulates Ginevra, Sofia, Alessandro and Giordano, not only for their victory but above all for their ability to do team, to support each other and to make the best they had to give available to the team. Sofia and Alessandro had never ridden an Olympic canoe and had never rowed with a double oar; the manager also thanks the organizers of the invitation, the parents for their trust and visceral support, and last but not least professor Vittorio Casalini for his infinite availability.
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