Summer version of the “Children's University” successfully closes the first week of workshops

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The students enthusiastically received recognition for their participation in this activity. 

Various vocational and artistic workshops, as well as technological and computational ones, ended in the first week of the Children's University, in its Summer 2015 version. For the academics of the state campus and their careers, welcome the U. de La Serena to the little ones, providing learning and new knowledge, has become an instance of growth and feedback year after year. 

For Karina Núñez, Training Area coordinatorof the Educational Computing Center (CIE), teaching the Video Games workshop for the first time at the U. de los Niños, was a pleasant surprise due to the interest and participation of the students. “It was a very successful experience, since the young people and children have learned independently how to create the video game. We have been pleasantly surprised that the students have been able to program and create very interesting video games (...) with this workshop, we seek to bring out the positive side of all the time they spend in front of the computer, the use of the Internet and that video games also enhance creativity and teamwork when they are online games,” Núñez pointed out.

workshops see 2For his part, José Aguayo, an academic in the ULS Design program, participating once again in this vocational activity, organized by the Extension Directorate of the university, “is a pleasure. I love coming, I like it because it is a good experience. I learn a lot from them, one can give knowledge, but they give a new vision and that enriches me," adding that every year, more boys and girls feel interested in creation and design, "that surprises me because commonly one It is expected that slightly older students will make the decision, but the little ones are clear about what they want, they have come and had fun (...) although the truth is, we needed more time, because really, the class went by very quickly ”, concluded the ULS academic.

Finally, Edwin Contreras, an academic in the ULS Kinesiology program, describes this second participation in the U. de los Ninos as “the alternative we have to open our course, equipment and operation to students (…) and that allows them to learn from Now, what do we do as kinesiologists, under what format we work, what tools we use and how the career develops as they go through the training process.” Andrea Becerra, a second-year student, who participated in this theoretical-practical workshop, indicated that the teachers were educational and entertaining, “the workshop was fun and very interesting because I was able to learn new things (…) like the names of the bones, that most of them I didn't know about, and discovering flat feet for example," clarified the Andrés Bello Centro School student.

It should be noted that the Children's University workshops, Summer 2015, continue to delight the little ones in the home in their second week of activities, from Monday, January 19 to Friday, January 23, a day in which a ceremony will be held. closing in the Aula Magna Ignacio Domeyko.

Source: Press Extension Direction