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Left to right. Javier Blanco, General Manager of the Endesa Foundation, Rafael Rosselló, Principal of CEIP las Veredas, Isidro Sánchez, Principal of High School IES Sabino Fernández Campo, and Enrique Ossorio, Regional Minister of Education and Youth.
- RetoTech is an educational initiative of the Endesa Foundation to promote STEM careers and technological entrepreneurship in classrooms, challenging schools to create a project focused on solving a need for their environment and including robotics, programming, 3D printing and an integrated APP.
- Since the first edition of the programme, 32,000 students and over 2,000 teachers from more than 500 schools from six Autonomous Communities have participated: Madrid, Aragon, Andalusia, Balearic Islands, Extremadura and Catalonia.
The schools of the Community of Madrid participating in the 6th edition of the Endesa Foundation RetoTech Awards have received today, to mark the occasion, robotics, programming and 3D printing kits from the Regional Minister of Education, Enrique Ossorio, and the General Manager of the Endesa Foundation, Javier Blanco, at an event held this morning at the Regional Ministry of Education and Youth of the Community of Madrid. The meeting was also attended by the Deputy Regional Minister of Educational Policy, Rocío Albert, and Begoña Muñoz de Verger, Project Director of the Endesa Foundation.
RetoTech is an educational project that promotes STEM careers and technological entrepreneurship in classrooms, with which the Endesa Foundation, in collaboration with the Regional Ministries of Education of the Autonomous Communities, challenges schools to create a project that includes robotics, programming, 3D printing and an integrated APP, focused on solving real needs around them, such as an automated recycling system for classrooms or a device to improve the learning process of special need students.
After the delivery of the kits, teachers receive training to subsequently teach their students and start developing their technological projects, which they will present at a festival at the end of the school year to the rest of participants and attendees. During the festival, the Endesa Foundation will hand out ten awards to the best projects, two national awards and eight local ones. And for the first time this year, with the collaboration of IMMUNE Technology Institute, 16 scholarships will be awarded to the winning schools of the 'Premios Redes' and 'Endesa Foundation Award' to attend the Young Immuners Summer Camps that will be held online during the summer of 2021.
In this sixth edition, the Endesa Foundation has selected 200 schools from among the 339 applications received. Of these, 66 schools are in the Community of Madrid, 24 Primary Education schools and 42 Secondary Education schools. The number of applications to this event has increased by 30% from the last edition.
This increase has happened because the Endesa Foundation has expanded these awards to schools in three new Autonomous Communities, the Balearic Islands, Extremadura and Catalonia, which will participate together with those of Madrid, Aragon and Andalusia. In total, around 12,000 students and 800 teachers are expected to participate in the 6th Edition of RetoTech.
About the Endesa Foundation
The main objective of the Endesa Foundation, chaired by Juan Sánchez-Calero, is to contribute to social development through projects based on education, employment training, the environment and culture.
The Foundation's educational projects are primarily aimed at fostering innovation in education at all levels and promoting academic excellence in the university field through grants, scholarships and professorships.
Employment training projects focus on promoting the talent of people at risk of social exclusion, young entrepreneurs with a lack of resources and professionals over 50 years of age.
Its environmental projects are primarily focused on boosting education, ecological culture and energy efficiency.
Its cultural projects include those dedicated to the lighting of artistic monuments, the conservation and dissemination of the historical industrial heritage of the Spanish electricity sector and collaboration with top-level Spanish cultural entities.
The Endesa Foundation also develops and finances programmes and actions aimed at providing humanitarian, health, social, financial and material aid in extraordinary situations of health crises, natural disasters or other similar situations.
Learn more at Endesa Foundation webpage.