UTalca signs agreement with municipalities to promote scientific education in schoolchildren

The agreement formalizes the linking work with boys and girls that the Faculty of Engineering has carried out for more than 15 years in order to teach in a playful and entertaining way.

Daniel Pérez Terán, Journalist UTalca.- Promoting the development of scientific and technological skills in children and young people is the objective of a collaboration agreement signed by our University with Departments of Municipal Education Administration (DAEM) of the 9 communes of the Province of Curicó, represented by their mayors and mayors.

With this agreement, UTalca, through the Faculty of Engineering and its connection space called Discovering Scientific Talents (DTC+), will provide distinctive playful initiatives for schoolchildren to discover scientific competencies such as: DTC Challenge, Trucklab, Savialab, Makerbox , and Astroscience, among others.

Likewise, training spaces will be generated for students, teachers, parents and guardians in the different disciplines that the aforementioned faculty houses in its Curicó Campus; as well as innovation activities in public spaces of the communes of the province.

Rector Carlos Torres Fuchslocher valued this agreement that reaffirms the institution’s commitment to educational development.

“This agreement aims to deliver our capacities as a Faculty of Engineering to promote the study of science in children and young people. We saw the results of the SIMCE test and we found a significant deficiency in mathematics, which is the fundamental basis of technology and engineering. For this reason, as a university, we believe that we can provide tools to captivate boys and girls, through scientific and playful experiences available in the DTC+ space,” the authority stressed.

For his part, the academic from the Faculty of Engineering and director of the DTC+, César Retamal Bravo, added that this agreement “comes to consolidate a work that we have carried out for 15 years to promote the study of science in the educational communities of the province. Our mission now is to have this alliance with all the communes of the region”.

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From the vision of the municipalities, this agreement is a direct benefit for the educational development of their communes.

The mayor of Curicó, Javier Muñoz Riquelme, stated that “this alliance will benefit our educational network, which has more than 12,000 boys and girls from more than 40 educational establishments. The University of Talca has many competencies with which we can work and strengthen all the development processes that we have planned in the field of education, especially in the scientific field, where the study house has had an outstanding work in research and innovation”.

For her part, the mayoress of Hualañé, Carolina Muñoz Núñez, stressed that “our students are the main beneficiaries of this agreement, who will be able to enhance their skills and knowledge so that they can reach higher education with better tools.”