The Department of Education of the City of Totana funding a project aimed at students of institutes "Juan de la Cierva" and Prado Mayor "through which learn to program robots to represent plays. The project is based on the participation of five teachers in the fields of Technology and Informatics at the time of carrying out the programming of robots and Language Arts and Plastic for developing scripts.
Participants in this year's project teams "Schedule your Work Cycle Robotic Theatre", driven by Kaleidoscope, the Museum of Science and Water of Murcia and the Miguel Hernández (UMH) University of Elche, may submit jobs to categories audiovisual short film or play, so that the work of an entire course see its culmination in the sample, which will be held in late May at the Museum of Science and Water of Murcia and in the campus of Elche UMH.
"Schedule your Work" looking hybridization between the world of technology, culture and the arts.
This course has also achieved aid the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology grants within the "Call for the promotion of scientific, technological culture and innovation."
The company responsible for providing the robots to be used in robotic workshops theater is AISoy Robotics.
To program these robots, the Scratch platform, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (USA), for kids between 6 and 16 years to learn to program is used.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana