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Innovation and science for all! Explora RM Norte convenes multiple educational and scientific initiatives for this year
- March 15, 2024
- Publicado por: ACCDIS
- Category: ACCDiS in Media Featured news
The North Metropolitan Region prepares for a year full of discoveries and learnings, thanks to the various educational calls promoted by the Explora North Metropolitan Region Associative Project of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and innovation, led by the Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS ) of the University of Chile and its Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, This year 2024, students from the 20 communes belonging to the project will be able to participate in various free initiatives, which have as a common goal, strengthen competencies in science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Educational Communities.
The Project works with educational communities in Cerro Navia, Hill, Conchalí, Curacaví, Huechuraba, Independencia, Lampa, The Countess, Lo Barnechea, Lo Prado, María Pinto, Padre Hurtado, Providence, Pudahuel, Quilicura, Quinta Normal, Recoleta, Renca, Tiltil and Vitacura. Available calls:
Talks and Itinerant Laboratories CuriosasMentes:
This is an initiative that aims to generate spaces for interactive meetings between the scientific community and the educational communities, Sparking curiosity, Interest and appreciation of scientific topics in teachers, students, parents and other members of the school community, through the development of mobile laboratories, Talks, Museums, Open Observatories and Laboratories, among other territorial actions. The call available until March 27.
Scientific Research and Innovation "IIE"
It is a learning initiative that promotes the development of scientific skills through the implementation of research or innovation projects, dividing into two sub-initiatives:
- Mini explorador@s: dAimed at teachers of the first cycle of basic education and students from 1st to 4th grade. This initiative includes guided inquiry activities that will allow children to propose a social innovation project associated with the environment
- Science Clubs: Aimed at teachers and students from 5th grade to 4th grade. These groups of students will have the opportunity to carry out a research or school innovation project based on their own interests or concerns. For the development of both sub-initiatives, the Explora program will carry out trainings, workshops and socialization meetings and, In addition, each group will provide a scientific advisor who will guide, together with the teacher in charge, The work done by the students.
Call available until April 11.
Científic@s in action:
Call for applications aimed at professionals who are specialists or who are currently pursuing postgraduate studies in any of the areas of knowledge. The Científic@s in action will be a guide and support for the teams of teachers and students participating in the Mini Explorador@s and School Science Clubs.
PichinCO in search of water:
It is an illustrated story aimed at transition levels of Preschool Education and first and second grade, Aligned with the national educational curriculum and framed under the competency and inquiry model.
Its objectives are to promote in a playful way an early approach and appropriation to the environmental problems associated with water scarcity and pollution, and, On the other hand, Develop scientific skills and attitudes that allow children to act with curiosity, Look for opportunities for inquiry and find alternative solutions that mitigate the impact caused by this situation.
Call available Since the March 19 until April 23.
PichinCO: A Journey to Healthy Living:
This product is a comic book intended for third and fourth grade students, which arises in direct collaboration with our executing unit, the Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS ) in order to respond to the critical points associated with school health and well-being, considering the current curricular emphases around the subject and the competency-based and inquiry model.
Its objectives are to develop competencies in teachers that allow them to appropriate the serious consequences of malnutrition due to excess and in this way develop scientific skills and attitudes that allow children to propose alternative solutions to this public health problem at the national level
Call available Since the May 8 to July 13.
¡No doubt, A year full of opportunities to explore, discover and learn in the Northern Metropolitan Region! Check the rules and apply to these initiatives to be part of the transformation of education and science in your commune. Learn more at www.explora.cl/rmnorte