The Graphics and Navigation laboratories were named after the student Anello Berlingeri and the principal Antonio Amato
The “Carlo Rambaldi” Technology Center concludes the school year with the inauguration of two new laboratories: the air navigation laboratory, for which the high school has obtained funding of almost 130,000 euros from European structural funds (Operational Program National ”For schools, skills and environments for learning” 2014-2020, Axis II – Infrastructure for education – European Regional Development Fund); and the graphics laboratory – within the PNRR, Mission 4: Education and Research, Component 1- Strengthening the offer of education services, Investment 3.2: School 4.0 Az. 2 – Next generation labs – for which the The Lamezzo institute has obtained a loan of approximately 165 thousand euros.
At the inauguration of the European navigation laboratory, Raoul Blasi, representative of the Canadair flight group, and Attilio Soluri, controller of air traffic.
‘We have chosen to join this PON – declared the manager Anna Primavera – because it is important to give our students a space and tools to apply what they study and it is a strategic choice in an area like ours with an international airport, considered strategic importance from the Italian government, which records increasingly significant flows every year. We carried out all the planning last year to meet the deadlines indicated by the Ministry and seize an opportunity for our students, who we care about very much.”
The manager also recalled the agreement between Polo Rambaldi and the National Flight Assistance Agency (ENAV), active for some years, which allows students to directly access the exams to become FISO operators.
On the part of Commander Raoul Blasi, ”the wish is to see this laboratory ”alive” every day, populated by students who put themselves to the test with respect to what they learn in books”. Blasi underlined, in particular, the possibility offered by the new Rambaldi laboratory to practice through a simulator to learn how to behave in particular emergency situations while on board an airplane. ‘In general – underlined Blasi – whatever path you follow, through this laboratory you will be able to develop an ”aeronautical mentality” that can be used in any sector”. Soluri, on the other hand, said he was proud as a Calabrian that a high school could host a laboratory of this type. ”Today there are few Calabrian flight controllers and this laboratory gives you an opportunity to learn”.
Cutting-edge equipment and a look to the future for the graphics laboratory, an initiative also created with European funds which – recalled the Primavera manager –‘require painstaking work, a rigid timetable and complex procedures. For this reason I would like to thank the teachers, the secretarial staff and the entire school community for allowing us to spend important resources well and in the right time.”.
The two laboratories were named respectively after Anello Berlingeri, a Polo student who passed away last December after a long battle with an illness, and Antonio Amato, principal of the institute from 1984 to 2002.
Present at the inaugural event were Anello Berlingeri’s mother and Angela Amato, daughter of the late principal, who together with the school teacher Francesco Renda remembered her father as ”a man and a principal who lived an inseparable relationship with this school, which he considered his family”.
