Future Congress in your Commune with activities for children Tea – 2024-08-03 05:28:29

Personalized and interactive were the keys to the day of dissemination of science and knowledge that Future Congress in your Commune – through the Senate’s Future Challenges commission, chaired by Senator Juan Antonio Coloma – brought, for the first time, dozens of boys and girls, users of the TEA Center, San Miguel.

Was the House of Culture of the commune which received various activities linked to science, whose staging was created especially for boys and girls with ASD.

There they highlighted the debut of two workshops that recreated a trip through the Solar system (in charge of the Mirador Active Museum, MIM)), the workshops of Astronomy (by the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics MAS)), Robotics (led by the Ideo Maker group) and the storyteller “The Guardians of the Wetland” (from the Learning Support Center of the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences).

“An honor”

The Executive Secretary of the Senate Future Council, Carolina Muñoznoted that “on behalf of the Commission Challenges the Future of the Senate and its president, Senator Juan Antonio Colomait is an honor to reach the San Miguel commune and to bring science and technology closer, in a personalized way, to children with ASD. This allows us to make visible their concerns and ways of learning that we have to take care of. We hope to return to San Miguel in 2025.”

The Mayor of San Miguel, Erika Martinez, He pointed out that “due to the progress and growth that TEA has had, it is important that we have this vision for the future and that we can face the challenges together. This alliance with CF in your Commune is the only way to learn and build a new learning process.”

He Director of Health of San Miguel, Jorge Cristi, She thanked the Senate for the work carried out through Congreso Futuro en tu Comuna. “I think it’s fantastic that all the participating organizations adapted their projects to include children with ASD, who generally cannot participate in such massive activities. I hope that CF en tu Comuna returns to San Miguel.”

The Director of the TEA Center, Rocío Uribenoted that “it is very important to work for inclusion at a transversal level (…) Bringing this type of activities to San Miguel means that they can access the same opportunities and content in instances in which they have often been excluded.”

Activities

“Great activity, since I am a very good robotics engineer,” said the little boy. Isaac Kalma, user of the TEA Center, the robotics workshop carried out by the Ideo Maker Groupin which boys and girls created their own Bug Bot.

This activity was joined by the Mirador Interactive Museum (MIM), an organization that participates -for the first time- in the Future Congress in your CommuneOn this occasion, children enjoyed the “Little Astronauts” workshops, focused on early childhood, which recreated a journey through the Solar System to perceive, through the senses and imagination, some characteristics of the different planets.

He Disseminator of the Education Department of the MIM Interactive Knowledge Center, Emilio Lavaudsaid that “the reception from the children was tremendously positive (…) This is the first time that this workshop has left the museum. It has been a great experience to be at Congreso Futuro and we hope that they will continue to invite us.”

In addition to these activities, The children of the TEA Center participated in the workshops of astronomyin charge of Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS),opportunity in which they met the Solar System in a sensorial way (with touch and smell), and of the Storytellers “The Guardians of the Wetland”, a work carried out by the Learning Support Centre of the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE), which aimed to link the youngest children to environmental issues.

The program of Future Congress in your Communeled by the Senate’s Future Challenges Commission (chaired by Senator Juan Antonio Coloma and composed of Senator Ximena Rincón and Senators Francisco Chahuán, Alfonso De Urresti and Luciano Cruz-Coke), the Dr. Roberto del Río Children’s Hospital will be visited on August 22.