ORGANIZATION

Organizer

 

Fondazione Mondo Digitale is a no-profit organization founded by the Municipality of Rome, the Lazio Region an ICT companies.

Fondazione Mondo Digitale works for an inclusive knowledge society by blending innovation, education, inclusion and fundamental values. The benefits that comes out from knowledge, new technologies and innovation should be an advantage of all people without any kind of discrimination.

 

The strategic decision of Fondazione Mondo Digitale is to promote the mission within a framework focusing on education, in terms of lifelong learning, as a reference point for the interaction of all the other dimensions (innovation, inclusion and cultural values).

 

For this reasons, Fondazione Mondo Digitale promotes from 3 years the international competition titled “Rome Cup: International Trophy of robotic”, where robots built by international schools and universities compete in the  heart of Rome: the Campidoglio City Hall. In the past years the event had a big success and was followed by national and International press and TV.

 

At present, Fondazione Mondo Digitale works for the promotion of robotics in the school and the study of science with the ICT in partnership with the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Scuola di Robotica.

 

 

 

 

Why use a robot to study?

 

The study and application of robotics allows students to approach traditional disciplines with greater interest and curiosity and this, in turn, leads to a stronger motivation to study science.

Schools in Italy have been successfully experimenting with the introduction of curricular activities related to robotics in upper secondary school programmes. This allows students not only to learn how to design and construct a robot, but also to grasp a methodology that will help with reasoning and experimenting in the external world.

 

Robotics unites all the knowledge necessary for the construction of machines (mechanics, electrotechnics, telecommunications, physics, English, etc.) computers, programmes, communication systems and networks. The specificity of this new science is that it stimulates the creative abilities of students as well as their communication, cooperation and group work skills.

SconfinataMente, the first Science Fair in Rome, witnessed the participation of many Roman schools together with scientists from all over the world. The opportunity to see robots work and compete made the didactic laboratory all the more interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why host an international competition in Rome?

 

Rome, the city of archeology and innovation, will host students from the world over for an engaging competition to promote an interdisciplinary approach to the didactics of science and transmit stimulating research ideas to young people.

 

The events are an important opportunity for the City of Rome to diffuse international-level good practices amongst its schools through an exceptional setting, which will witness the competitions in the Campidoglio's, the Roman Capitol, Protomoteca Hall.