Professors and students of the Scientific and Innovation Culture Unit (UCC + i) of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) took up this Thursday the scientific-technological workshops in the libraries of Cartagena, with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology - Ministry of Competitiveness and within the second quarterly program of the Cartagena Piensa municipal initiative.
In the afternoon of yesterday the workshops were given 'How much sugar do the juices and fruits we eat?', In the library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center, and 'Where does the water we drink come from?
Taibilla Reservoir ', in the library Rafael Rubio, Los Dolores.
This Saturday, at 11 a.m., the UPCT Racing Team's single-seat racing team will show their latest prototypes at the neighborhood association of the Station sector.
Last quarter, around 600 children attended the thirty lectures given by the UPCT in the municipal libraries.
The novelty of this new edition is the collaboration with the neighborhood associations of Galifa, Sector Station, San Felix and El Algar.
The programming of Cartagena Piensa also includes lectures to be held at the Polytechnic, such as the seminar on Citizen Participation and collective research that will be held on 10 and 11 March, the group of the Universitat de Barcelona OpenSystems, which coordinates the Office of Citizen Science of The city of Barcelona.
In addition, the UPCT will participate next week in the 13th IES Floridablanca Science and Technology Week, in Murcia, with workshops in electronics, engineering of roads, canals and ports and engineering of mines and a demonstration of multicopters flight that Will conduct the Telecommunications School this next Monday between 11:30 and 13:20 hours.
Source: UPCT