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The students of 2nd and 3rd of ESO of the Leonardo Da Vinci Bilingual Concerted School have launched a new project in Los Belones to promote tourism and businesses through various QR codes, distributed throughout the council.

The project 'Discover a QR Town' has the collaboration of the Department of Commerce of the City of Cartagena and the Association of Merchants of Los Belones (ACOBE).

The acting councilor of Commerce, Carmen Martín del Amor, attended this morning, June 11, the presentation of this initiative and explained that thanks to this project "in the first place, in a simple, comfortable and innovative, they are created points of information about this tourist place and secondly, it helps the merchants to improve their image and increase their profits ".

For this, on the one hand, two lecterns have been installed: one, in the Calle Mayor, and another, in the Plaza de la Iglesia;

and on the other hand, QR codes have been generated for 53 shops belonging to ACOBE, where the information is captured in a meter, placed on the front of each of these shops.

Conchi Donate, teacher of Mathematics and tutor of 3º of the ESO of the Bilingual Concerted School Leonardo Da Vinci, has highlighted the work of all the students and professors involved in this project and has indicated that to make this initiative possible it has been necessary "a cooked on a slow fire of a ration of technology, a trickle of innovation, a few tablespoons of cooperative work and abundant enthusiasm. "

In addition, he stressed that the important thing is to turn the Belones into "a digital reference."

To carry out an exhaustive investigation, the students and professors have made departures for the deputation, interviews with the merchants or photographs of the surroundings.

Two students, Luciano and Paula, who have participated in the project, affirmed that, although the work has been "very hard", they have learned different values ​​such as "companionship or the desire to excel".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena