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Colonize the Mar Menor with sustainable practices, goal of the board game that premieres the UPCT in the Week of Science Educational games stand out among the 40 informative workshops of the Polytechnic in Secyt2017 Colonize the Mar Menor with sustainable practices, objective of the board game that The UPCT opens in Science Week A huge map of the Mar Menor and its surroundings, divided into 170 squares that show current land uses and with a design similar to popular strategy games such as Catán, is the starting point of the workshop in board game mode that the team of planners of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) has premiered today in the Week of Science and Technology (Secyt) of the Region of Murcia.

"Each player must colonize the terrain in a sustainable way to win the game and regenerate the lagoon," explains Marcos Ros, responsible with Fernando García of the workshop.

"The moral that we transmit to young people is that it is the activity around the Mar Menor that has generated their current state," he adds.

Hundreds of young people have already spent this morning in the workshop of the School of Architecture and Building of the UPCT, where you can play until Sunday at noon.

Ecological agriculture, natural spaces, outdoor leisure activities, urban rehabilitation ordinances and waste treatment policies are some of the positive changes that must be achieved by players, who must avoid intensive agriculture, mining, unbridled urbanism or new marinas occupy the board.

Games like this stand out among the forty informative workshops of the Polytechnic in Secyt2017.

The set of 'Retame and Aprendo' is also very popular, an initiative of ludification in the television format of the Digital Content Production Center of the UPCT, as well as the robot operating room created by the UPCTMaker student association.

The Week of Science and Technology, held in the garden of the Malecón de Murcia, can be followed live through tv.upct.es, thanks to the retransmission that UPCT is doing.

Source: UPCT