Opening of registrations for “Bojos per la Ciència”
Bojos per la Ciència is getting ready for the new edition of its programme and from today registrations are open until Monday 12th September. The programme was created by Catalunya-La Pedrera Foundation to stimulate scientific talent among young people. Within this framework, Bojos per les Noves Technologies was created, by proposal of La Salle Campus Barcelona – URL. The finality of this programme is to promote the technological and innovative spirit among high school students, allowing them to get in contact with technological progress in the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) sector. During the year 5 courses in different areas but with a common topic, new technologies, will be carried out with the intention of increasing vocations, and a technological and innovative motivation among young students, awakening their entrepreneurial spirit. The program will help to understand firsthand the work of an Engineer in areas such as Web Development and Programming, Mobile App Development, Robotics at the service of people, Internet Technologies and Cybersecurity and Videogames, areas of activity with a great development in the coming years and with lack of professionals all over Europe. Within the general programme of Bojos per la Ciència there are other excellent courses that offer students the opportunity to learn the theory and scientific techniques in different fields. Some of these fields are biomedicine, economy, physics, maths, nature or chemistry. Students will also have the opportunity of working with researchers in order to know what it’s like to do science from an international research center or to follow a scientific career. The selection process for students will be from September to December and will consist of a first selection followed by a personal interview which will allow to decide which are selected. Courses will have place on Saturdays and selected students will not be able to do more than one course at the same time. The opening of the programme will be in January 2017, starting on the 14th and ending in November 2017. If you want to know more information about this programme click here.