This Monday, the second edition of the Aldaba-TIC Camp summer camp kicked off simultaneously at the School of Computer Engineering on the Ourense campus and the Faculty of Computer Science on the A Coruña campus. The camp aims to promote technological vocations and contribute to gender equality in this field. 60 children in A Coruña and 30 in Ourense, all aged between 6 and 12, are participating in this initiative, 80% of whom are girls. The underlying reason is to enable girls to perceive themselves as the majority and to normalize this as a situation that can occur in reality, in contrast to what happens in the classrooms of schools where the Computer Engineering Degree is taught.
The camp is taught by instructors from PlayCodeAcademy. The camp workshops, which this year play with the idea of preparing a mission to travel to the depths of the underwater world, are adapted for different age groups. The participating children learn, through play, about training with drones, creating 3D tools, building and programming robots, etc. To achieve this, they will use tools such as Lego, Arduino, Scratch, 3D printers, and robotics kits.
In A Coruña, the camp is partially subsidized by the Social Council of the UDC, and in Ourense by the Social Council of the UVigo, which means that any family, regardless of income, can benefit. The summer camp has been a complete success in terms of the number of applicants, which is why, in A Coruña, a second session will be held this year, from July 1 to 5, to meet the high demand received.
