26/04/2018 - Articles, News
The Ocean in 3D: didactic kit now available!
Reading time: 1 minuteSchool of Robotics has always dreamed of making tools to make the study innovative and fun and we have often done so with robots and technology. In recent years, however, the seriousness of the problems caused by the pollution of the sea by plastic has manifested itself in all its greatness and we decided to 'dive into the water' to better understand the causes and consequences of this problem.
School of Robotics has always dreamed of making tools to make the study innovative and fun and we have often done so with robots and technology. In recent years, however, the seriousness of the problems caused by the pollution of the sea by plastic has manifested itself in all its greatness and we decided to 'dive into the water' to better understand the causes and consequences of this problem. We made this decision because respect for the sea is fundamental to giving a future to our world and technology can help. Thanks to the Costa Crociere Foundation we had the opportunity to develop the project 'The Sea in 3D', which aims to recover and recycle through 3D printing plastic materials dispersed in the environment, and we decided to start from our land, Liguria, to follow this path.
Thanks to our experience we know that, in order to improve the quality of our ecosystem, it is necessary to educate and inform the younger generations about respect for the sea and for nature in general. To achieve this goal, we have created a didactic kit that has as its main target the youngest, the adults of tomorrow, but that can be read and used by anyone. We are convinced that knowledge is an excellent tool for understanding, defending and loving nature. Normally you do not respect and you are only afraid of things that we do not know enough about, such as the sea. We have produced this educational kit, available free of charge to help people learn more about our environment. The manual was written by the naturalist Zaira Gennaro, under the supervision of marine biologists Andrea Molinari and Paolo Bernat, all three with great experience in scientific dissemination, friends of the School of Robotics and representatives of the RSTA cooperative.
At the end of the "marine" part you will also find a chapter written by our Elena Parodi, author of two books on didactics and technology - Creative Robotics for Young Technicians, Fifth Cover Publisher and "How to Makey Makey" and. School of Robotics -. With Elena we have created the part dedicated to automata made of recycled material. Finally, special thanks go to our designer and graphic designer Lorenzo Pestarino, who shapes all our publishing products.