The spirit of the inventor and cartagenero scientist Isaac Peral, was present today, June 7, at the Real Club de Regatas where students and teachers of IES Polytechnic have launched in the waters of the port of Cartagena a scale replica 1: 5 Submarine Pear tree.
This is a joint work of students in vocational training Higher Level Electronic Maintenance and Prevention of Occupational Hazards;
and Intermediate Vocational Training Welding, Boiler and body, altogether more than 200 students who have participated in this project over six years.
Alderman of the Culture, Ricardo Segado and councilor for the Treasury and Interior, Francisco Aznar, both representing the City of Cartagena, have been present at an event in which the Minister of Education Regional Minister Maria Isabel Sanchez Mora has served as godmother of the boat launch.
Lapresidenta of the Regional Assembly, Rosa Peñalver, and the general director of Quality Education and Vocational Training, Fernando Mateo Asensio, completed the list of officials present at the event.
The director of IES Polytechnic of Cartagena, Maria Rosa Peñalver Laborda, said that this trabajomuestra that the center is committed to the way of teaching the twenty-first century based on challenges and thus motivate the students specially.
According to the director, they opt for cooperative work based on previous works that have been carried out in the school since 2007.
This replica of the submarine Peral is directed by remote control, weighs 800 kilos and has a length of 4.7 meters and a width of 59 centimeters.
IES Polytechnic students have relied on the original plans of Submarino Peral for construction and equipped with all the elements wearing the original.
PERAL SUBMARINE OTHER GUNS
Previously, there have been other projects that have served as a prelude as:
Reproduction scale 1: 2 of the original submarine, made by teachers and students, currently exhibited at the Campus of Alfonso XII, opposite the School of Naval Engineering of the UPCT.
The colaboracióón the teaching staff and students in the restoration of the original submarine, located at the Naval Museum, located in the Port of Cartagena, and received the AR & PA International Award for Restoration and Intervention in the Cultural Heritage.
Playback 1: 5 scale static, predecessor of the current dynamic, which is located in the lobby of the administration area Polytechnic IES.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena