The IIS Rosatelli of Rieti participated today in Campobasso at the meeting “Knowing to prevent – A contribution from the School to the knowledge of seismic risk and its mitigation” as part of an exchange of teaching experiences in the transversal teaching of Civic Education and in the activities carried out for the PCTOs (Paths for Transversal Skills and Orientation).
This activity took place on the initiative of the RESISM network, of which Rosatelli is part, a network headed by the IIS Aldini Valeriani of Bologna. The contribution of the tireless engineer was also fundamental. Giovanni Manieri, volunteer collaborator of the Network.
With the initial greeting from the Councilor for Social Policies and Education of the Municipality of Campobasso Luca Praitano, in the presence of numerous local authorities, the work began.
The Alberto Romita Scientific High School, directed by DS Anna Gloria Carlini, hosted the event and their students introduced the DOCUMENTARY EXHIBITION for the twenty years since the San Giuliano di Puglia earthquake, also created for the PCTOs under the guidance of Professor Carmen Adamo . The video they made is very touching and engaging.
On an important date like today 6 April, the students of the IIS Amedeo D’Aosta of L’Aquila, directed by DS Maria Chiara Marola under the guidance of professors Rossella Simonelli and Michelina Di Massimo, have given a constructive contribution and concrete by bringing the work carried out in the PCTOs to “the historic city before and after the earthquake”. The voices and vital force of these new generations convey with freshness the awareness of being protagonists of their own history with an eye towards the future, but on the basis of a solid historical knowledge.
After the message sent by the Principal Prof. Beatrice Tempesta, the students of Rosatelli Beatrice Pompei, Francesco Giovannelli and Diego Pecoroni of the 5 CAT, (heir course of the Surveyors), accompanied by the profs. Luigi di Mattei and Davide Milardi and also prepared by prof. Marcello Iacuitto, illustrated the fundamental principles that lead to visualizing the movements of a building in relation to the accelerations induced by the earthquake while Matteo Di Virgilio of the 5MA and Gabriele De Massimi of the 5MB spoke about the creation of the shaking table in progress in the laboratories from a point predominantly mechanical point of view.
Graziano Ferrari, INGV Research Associate from Bologna reported on “The great earthquakes of central-southern Italy”. The lessons of the past, which he effectively recounts, and the scientific and technical tools that see Italy in first place in the contribution on these issues, are a warning and a stimulus regarding the concrete actions and attitude to have for the future. Remote intervention by the INGV researcher in Rome Paola Vannoli on “Recent earthquakes and active faults in the central-southern Apennines”.
The professor. Mauro Fava and the IIS Aldini Valeriani students envisaged the future of the development of tools for teaching on seismic risk with the ongoing design and construction of a shaking table capable of using the accelerograms of various historical earthquakes to study their effect on various models. This experience sees the students involved in a challenge of a high scientific and technical level. Their Director Prof. Pasquale Santucci led and coordinated the work of the event.
A rich and stimulating day which, despite seeing seismic events receding over time whose emotional impact dissolves over time, must not make us lower our guard towards the events that nature itself will inevitably throw at us. Therefore, awareness, study, research and prevention will see these young students and their peers protagonists in the various roles that history will reserve for them.
