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Concha Monje and the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Last Saturday Principia Magazine joined the International Day of Women and Girls in Science initiative and Concha Monje participated in it giving a talk named "Mum, I want to be a scientist". Children and families were excited listening to her talking about robots. Maybe future roboticists (girls or even boys) were born this day.
This event was held in Campus Madrid (Google).

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RoboticsLab Members promoting STEM amongst our younglings

Victor González-Pacheco, member of the Roboticslab, is teaching Robotics and Computer Science to a group of children aged 8-12 in the Primary School Trabenco. The course had a duration of 8 weeks in which the students learned to program using Scratch and and Lego WeDo kits. The course ended with a visit to our Lab, where the children have been able to understand how some of the skills they learned are applied in real robots like TEO, Maggie and Mbot. They also had the chance to interact with some of the robots and, even play with them

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