The Pamplona City Council has opened the registration period for the Bizilabe 2026-2027 program, an initiative that aims to bring STEM disciplines to boys and girls aged 10 to 14. Through practical workshops and collaborative projects, participants will explore areas such as robotics, programming, and biology. The activity will take place during after-school hours, with the goal of sparking technical vocations from an early age and reducing the gender gap in these fields.
Robotics and programming as the foundation of learning 🤖
Bizilabe structures its sessions around active methodologies where young people build prototypes with sensor and actuator kits. Development environments like Arduino and Scratch are used, allowing attendees to design circuits and write code to solve real problems. The program includes modules on 3D printing and mobile app design. Participants document their progress in a digital logbook, fostering analysis and technical documentation skills inherent to the scientific method.
Less TikTok and more soldering wires, says the City Council 🔧
The idea is for kids to swap infinite scrolling for a screwdriver, even if just for a few hours a week. Parents are already rubbing their hands together imagining their child turning their room into a lab or, even worse, figuring out how the home router works. Of course, if they manage to program a robot to do their homework, the City Council will have to expand the program.