3rd meeting for Erasmus+ program «Active Learning Academy», Cesena-Italy
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During the week of May 1-7, a group of 5 students and 2 teachers traveled to Cesena, Italy as part of the Erasmus+ program "ActiveLearningAcademy" (this is the third mobility of the program in which participate also schools from Cyprus, Poland and Spain). Cesena is a picturesque city of 100,000 inhabitants in Northern Italy with medieval architecture, with the Rocca Malatestiana fortress dominating in the center and the Malatestian library which was the first public library in Europe.
The students who participated were Vasilis Argyropoulos, Michaela Daliani, Valia Karakasi, Kosmas Oikonomou and Ioanna Paloumpi and the accompanying teachers were the Principal of the school Ilias Andreou and the professor of Informatics Ilias Spanos. The topic of the five-day meeting was related to technology issues and more specifically: (i) the construction and programming of facebot and (ii) the expansion of ForeignWords and AZandMore software. Facebot is a programmable, self-moving robotic vehicle based on the arduino open source software/hardware platform. Students of all schools working in mixed groups practiced in programming it as well as in the use of the camera for object recognition.
In the afternoons, cultural visits were made to cities of great interest, such as Ravenna with its amazing mosaics, Florence, which was the cradle of the Renaissance, Cesendantico, the port of Cesena, and finally Bologna, which had the most ancient European university.
Full of knowledge and experience, the students made an appointment for the next mobility in September in Cyprus!
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