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Participants at one of the latest editions of Retotech, with the projects they presented.
- A total of 150 schools in Madrid, Andalusia, Aragon, Catalonia, Extremadura and the Balearic Islands will be able to participate in these Awards in the 2020-2021 academic year by presenting their robotics, programming and 3D printing projects.
- The centres that are selected will exhibit their technological project at the RetoTech_Fundación_Endesa Festival that will be held in the different Autonomous Communities at the end of the school year, if health circumstances allow.
- Registrations can be made until 16 November.
The Endesa Foundation launched the VI Edition of RetoTech in the Communities of Madrid, Aragon, Andalusia and, as a novelty this year, also in Catalonia, Extremadura and the Balearic Islands.
RetoTech is a training project that encourages technological entrepreneurship, a vehicle through which the Endesa Foundation, in collaboration with the Education Departments of the aforementioned Autonomous Communities aims to promote vocations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (known as the STEM subjects), to promote projects that transform children's education through innovation, and to “challenge” the teaching staff and students of the participating educational centres to develop technological initiatives aimed at solving real needs in their school or social environment.
The Endesa Foundation will award ten prizes (two nationally and eight locally) to projects presented by students and teachers at a festival to be held at the end of this school year 2020-2021.
The Endesa Foundation Prize, to be chosen by the Jury assembled for that purpose, and the Redes Prize, awarded to the project with the most votes on the RetoTech website will have nationwide scope.
At local level, two prizes will be awarded in each of the four festivals of this edition, which will be held in the Autonomous Community of Madrid (for centres in Madrid and Aragon), in Andalusia (for centres in Andalusia and Extremadura), in Catalonia and in the Balearic Islands. These awards are the Endesa Employee Award, which will go to the candidate with the most votes among Endesa employees who attend the event in each Autonomous Community, and the Teacher Award, chosen by attending teachers from the schools of each Community.
In this sixth edition, 50 schools from the Community of Madrid, 20 from Aragon, 30 Primary and Secondary schools from Andalusia, 15 Primary schools from Extramadura, 20 schools from Catalonia and 15 Secondary schools from the Balearic Islands will be able to participate.
In addition, as a novelty in this year's edition, the Endesa Foundation is joined by the IMMUNE Technology Institute, which will award 16 scholarships to the Redes and Endesa Foundation award-winning schools so they can attend the YOUNG IMMUNERS SUMMER CAMPS that it will organise online during the summer of 2021.
As in previous editions, the project presented at the end of the year for Primary Education must combine 3D printed elements with robotics (Arduino family kits programmed with Bitbloq, which allows programming by blocks and without code). For Secondary, you must also integrate an Android mobile application.
To this end, the Endesa Foundation will donate 10 robotics kits based on Arduino (ZUM kit) and a Witbox Go! 3D printer to all schools participating for the first time in this edition. The selected schools that have taken part in previous editions will be given 5 robotics kits.
The teachers of each selected school will receive online training and continuous monitoring via the Reto Tech Foundation Endesa training platform with the support of the BQ Education team.
Registration for this edition will be open until 16 November. On the 23rd of the same month, the list of the schools that have finally been selected to participate in the project will be published on the project's website.
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To register, the teacher responsible from each school must fill in the registration form with all the information requested therein. The application must include a video of max. 5 minutes in length in which the school, its students and teachers discuss why they are participating in the project and why it would help them to extend and improve the use of technology in the classroom. In the evaluation, the originality, staging and quality of the videos will be taken into account.
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In the fifth edition of these awards, held last year, a total of 262 schools registered (117 from the Community of Madrid, 31 from Aragon and 114 from Andalusia), representing an increase of 43% in participation compared to the fourth edition. Since its launch in 2015, nearly 1,300 teachers and nearly 20,000 students have participated in RetoTech.
About the Endesa Foundation
The Endesa Foundation, chaired by Juan Sánchez-Calero (non-Executive Chairman of Endesa), is committed to social development through its educational projects, training for employment, and maintains a commitment to the environment and cultural initiatives.
The Foundation promotes educational projects, with initiatives that transform and promote innovation in education at all levels and promote academic excellence in the university environment through grants, scholarships and chairships.
In addition, it provides momentum for employment training projects which focus on promoting the talent of people at risk of social exclusion, young entrepreneurs with limited resources and professionals over 50 years of age.
In addition, it has environmental projects related to education in ecological culture and projects to improve the natural environment and environments that have been used for industrial purposes.
Finally, it promotes Spanish historical-artistic heritage of the enlightenment period, as well as the recovery and conservation of national art and culture.
More information at fundacionendesa.org