ScienceArt@Umbria

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ScienceArt@Umbria aims at creating training paths in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects for primary and secondary school students during summer periods. Summer camps aim at promoting higher confidence towards scientific knowledge among girls and stimulating the learning of STEM subjects, through new ways of teaching during the training paths.

ScienceArt@Umbria is co-funded by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department of Equal Opportunities (Initiative: In estate si imparano le STEM).

”In estate si imparano le STEM” aims at eradicating stereotypes that hinder women‘s participation in science.

The initiative aims at creating training paths in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects for primary and secondary school students during summer periods. Summer camps aim at promoting higher confidence towards scientific knowledge among girls and stimulating the learning of STEM subjects, through new ways of teaching during the training paths.

The School IC Panicale Paciano Piegaro participated in the initiative with the project ScienceArt@Umbria, which has been approved and funded by the Italian Ministry of Equal Opportunities.

ScienceArt@Umbria is based on the implementation of an interdisciplinary summer camp addressed to the students (but not only) of the IC Panicale Paciano Piegaro. The ScienceArt@Umbria Summer Camp addresses learners aged 11 to 13 and is designed to overcome the stereotypes that negatively affect women in science.

The so-called STEM subjects are indeed traditionally male dominated. Considering that females remain underrepresented in those subjects, ScienceArt@Umbria aims at improving such gender discrepancy, by counteracting the stereotype of the students‘ (with a special focus on females) poor attitude towards STEM disciplines.

The ScienceArt@Umbria campus gives participants the opportunity to challenge the experimental method through workshops for monitoring the environmental conditions of some local artworks (the Perugino’s fresco of the “The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian”, the church of “Madonna della Barra” and the “Museum of Sacred Furnishings”).

The participants had the chance to attend 4 interdisciplinary workshops:

  1. MATHLAB: Mathematics and Arts:
    The workshop explored the interactions between mathematics and art, with a special focus on some mathematical aspects in artworks of the Renaissance, such as the perspective of ratio and proportion.
  2. ENGLISH LAB:
    With the support of a native speaker, the students analysed the fresco “The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian” in detail, identifying its features and elements by transcribing the data that emerged in a table (landscape, colours, geometrical shapes, architecture etc). Through assigned working groups, the participants submitted written arguments in English.
  3. ART LAB:
    The workshop analysed the technique behind the mural painting called “fresco” and its conservation.
  4. CODING AND AUGMENTED REALITY LAB:
    The students used the Scratch programming language to write a code for a very simple animation to better explain some details of the fresco.

 

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