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Colombia Teacher Workshops -- With Science and Technology!
Through The GLOBE Program, the Colombian national government is committed to promoting the development of the educational community in Tumaco (Colombia).
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation offered training workshops for teachers in skills for the formulation of school research projects, incorporating tools of The GLOBE Program. The workshops were attended by 65 teacher leaders of the School Environmental Projects from 65 educational establishments of the municipality of San Andrés de Tumaco, Colombia.
Through a cascade training methodology where teachers who have already been trained will form school research groups, more than 650 children and youths will benefit. They will carry out environmental research that integrates GLOBE protocols in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and soil, to solve a local environmental problem.
"GLOBE has become an excellent tool for Minciencias, which through the Ondas program promotes in children and young people an interest in research and the development of attitudes and skills that allow them to actively participate in a culture of science, technology and innovation. We continue to advance actions that seek to offer new generations opportunities to develop their scientific and creative vocation, so that in the medium term they will be active subjects in the construction of a more just and egalitarian society," said the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Yesenia Olaya.
For the country's coordination it is important to build knowledge networks, as well as communities of practice around the GLOBE program, to strengthen activities for the promotion of scientific vocations in children and young people in the different regions of the country.
Training spaces are necessary for GLOBE, to promote collaborative work between schools in the region, to strengthen school research around local environmental issues, to empower children and young people and allow them from an early age to propose solutions for adaptation and mitigation of climate change, and in communities such as those of the Pacific of Nariño, to provide them with tools to meet the challenges such as the El Niño phenomenon.
Images courtesy Carlos Daniel Acuña Caldera, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Colombia.