Important recognition and great emotion for the Istituto Comprensivo “G. Nosengo” of Petrosino led by the head teacher Domenico Pocorobba: the students of class 2ᵃB of the lower secondary school won first place in the “Sky Up the Edit” journalistic competition with an interview with the paralympic athlete Fausto Firreri. The newspaper report entitled “Sport overcomes disability” celebrates sport as an inclusive and redeeming tool: a hymn to life, inclusion and willpower. On the picturesque coast of Biscione, the students interviewed Fausto Firreri, a disabled athlete who, after having achieved important goals in the world of basketball and swimming (he was champion in 1999, winning gold in Sesto San Giovanni and for TWO consecutive years he was arrived 2nd at the crossing of the Strait of Messina), last January he set the world record for extreme linear apnea under the ice of Lake Lod in Valle d’Aosta. Through his story, the kids learned that sport is important to overcome life’s challenges. Fausto is in fact an example of how with courage, passion and determination you can overcome all difficulties.
The awards ceremony took place on Monday 20 May at the “Leonardo da Vinci” Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, as part of the Sky Inclusion Days event. The teachers received the award. Antonella Bonsignore, teacher of Literature and journalist, and Liliana Angileri, teacher of Mathematics. The children were rewarded with the dissemination of the video within SKY sports broadcasts, while the school will receive the sum of 5000 euros for the purchase of technological material. «We are really happy – declares vice-principal Rossana Pantaleo – to have obtained this recognition on a topic particularly dear to our school, which among other things has been designated a hub for inclusion in the province of Trapani. Furthermore, participation in this competition represented a wonderful moment of growth for our students, as, thanks to Sky, the children had the opportunity to experiment with new languages, to approach the world of journalism and to use new technologies through who were able to address the theme of Sport – Inclusion”.
