They have given excellent feedback Orientation workshops aimed at children in the second year of lower secondary schoolcarried out at‘ISIS Bernocchi of Legnano this June. They were forty-five students who joined and completed the courses, coming from various institutions in the area – the Dante Alighieri, Bonvesin de la Riva, Giosué Carducci and Franco Tosi schools of Legnano, the Dante Alighieri school of Cerro Maggiore, the Papa Giovanni XXIII school of Villa Cortese and the Leonardo da Vinci school of Nerviano.
These co-curricular workshops are among the activities financed with the PNRR aimed at combating school dropout. The idea of organizing courses aimed at students from other schools was born within a working group organized by the Municipality of Legnano, for the planning of actions aimed at this purpose. There were three paths from which the students could choose.
In that of Mechanicsconducted by professors Antonio Lamattina and Nicola Puma, the children carried out various activities in the technological laboratory, where they had the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the measuring instruments used in workshops, in the drawing laboratory, where they enjoyed using the CAD software, and in the workshop of the Medea branch office, where they were able to observe the functioning of vehicle engines. On the last day they also had the opportunity to see the CNC machine tools at work.
In the context of Fashion path, held by professors Nadia De Rossi and Cinzia Oliva, starting from a paper pattern provided by the teachers and the students they sewed a shorts out of non-woven fabric and created the decorative elements.
In the Electronics and electrical engineering laboratory finally, led by professors Elisa Albano and Francesco Lauricella, the kids have an alarm circuit was created with siren and one with LED flasher with transistor. Playful activities were also proposed, such as a treasure hunt: the children challenged each other to trace the correct route on a map with a joystick, signaled by the switching on of LED lights thanks to the use of the platform’s electronic cards
Arduino.
The teachers said they were very satisfied with the commitment and enthusiasm shown by the students, testifying to the usefulness of these initiatives to excite the students and support them in an informed choice of higher education.
