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The Councillor for Education, David Martinez, inaugurated the activities at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena |

Scientific Workshops Foundation Repso l back for the third year to bring science in a more entertaining way for children. More than 950 students of 6th of Primary participate in activities that develop from November 23 to 17 December at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.

The Councillor for Education, David Martinez, inaugurated the workshop.

The students come from 19 schools and will participate in these workshops, where students approach science in a different way, doing practical activities s participating in different experiments.

Cartagena is being performed Toy Story workshop, students of 6th primary learners become physicists and chemists.

This time learn physics and chemistry that hides both the toys they usually play, and others who may have never seen.

This morning the children have been visited by the Councillor for Education, David Martinez, the deputy director of Institutional Programs Repsol Foundation, William Gartland, director of the Industrial Complex of Repsol, Juan Antonio Carrillo de Albornoz, deputy director of People and Organization refinery, Ignacio Trapiella and the Vice Chancellor of Students and University Extension UPCT, Francisco Martinez, who wanted to see first hand the workshops developed in order to stimulate interest in science.

The Councillor for Education, David Martinez stressed support for such proposals from the Department of Education: Since we've come, the City Council has very clear the importance of popularizing science.

In addition, it is also very important that science and culture go hand in hand as we will see this weekend at the conference, a commission called Science and Thought.

On the other hand, the mayor also explained that he held a meeting with the Vice Chancellor: We have talked about such activities because it is very important to disseminate science.

There is nothing closed, but we have said that just as the Science Week in Murcia is done, we could do something like this in Cartagena, but we are working on it to see what can be done.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena