Cinco profesores de Ávila y Segovia viajan a la sede del CERN en Ginebra con una beca de Aquona y Fundación Aquae
This week they have attended a scientific training program with the aim of awakening STEM vocations among their students when they return to Spain
Five science and technology professors from Ávila and Segovia attend a high-level training program from the 23rd until today at the headquarters of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), in Geneva. The objective is to expand their training in physics, engineering and computing and learn tools so that, once they return to Spain, they can take this knowledge back to the classroom, thus encouraging scientific and technological vocations among their students.
These teachers have been able to travel to CERN thanks to Aquona and Fundación Aquae, which in 2017 signed a collaboration agreement with the CERN & Society Foundation, thus becoming the first Spanish institution to be linked to this scientific foundation. Ana María Bueno (Secondary Education Institute María Zambrano, Segovia), Rocío García (Training Center for Teachers and Educational Innovation, Ávila), Agustín González (IES Isabel de Castilla, Ávila), María Victoria Régil (IES Jorge Santayana, Ávila) and Sergio García (IES María Zambrano, Segovia) are five of the 20 science and technology teachers from Spain who have been selected to travel to the "heart" of CERN.
This training program is aimed at professors, Secondary School teachers and technical vocational training professors, specializing in Physics-Chemistry, Mathematics, Technology or Biology-Geology and professional families of Professional Training in Electricity-Electronics, Health and Information Technology -Communications.
On this trip they were accompanied by the illustrator Óscar Alonso, better known as 72 kilos (@ 72kilos), who will capture in vignettes the other "journey", the knowledge of these teachers in the "heart" of CERN. His characteristic drawings, with a sober outline but with messages of enormous depth, will serve to disseminate everything that has happened during these days in the largest research laboratory in particle physics in the world. Publicist by profession, this creative, who has almost 1 million followers on Instagram and 210,000 on Twitter, has just published his latest book: 'The Lives We Draw' (Plan B).
According to Mikel de Pablo, Project Manager of Fundación Aquae, "this experience at CERN is a unique opportunity for these teachers to discover new ways to inspire and motivate their students in the approach to Science, a subject that is still scaring to much".
Directed by Jeff Wiener, director of S'cool Lab (Teacher Training Program of CERN), the Spanish teachers have deepened, through lectures, lectures, practical workshops, discussion sessions and exhibitions, in the knowledge of the particle physics, computation, antiprotons that are produced in the CERN Antimatter Factory, neutrino physics, cosmology or accelerators such as Sincrociclotrón, which uses powerful electromagnets to accelerate increasingly heavy particles and at increasing speeds.