Citilab News
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Mozilla Europe is organizing a large two-day Mozilla conference in CitiLab-Cornellà, Oct 25-26, 2008. The conference, officially called "Mozilla Camp Europe 2008", aims to bring together Mozillians (staff and community members) from 3 main areas - DEV, l10n and QA - with a special focus on Europe.
A maximum of 200 participants can be invited to the conference sessions/workshops. The morning keynotes on Saturday and Sunday will be open to the public, to a maximum of 300 people.
7 keynote speeches are planned (TBC) :
Saturday 25 October, 2008
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Citilab has taken part for the first time in the Children’s Christmas Fair of Cornellà, now in its sixth year. The stand, which had a large number of visitors, grouped together various themed activities where kids and their families could discover in a fun way playing as a valuable tool for learning and fomenting the culture of technology. The mayor of Cornellà, Antonio Balmón, took an active interest in the activities of Citilab during his visit to the Fair.
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After the festive season, Citilab is proposing learning (and enjoying) technology as a New Year’s resolution. For this reason we are beginning a wide range of courses of digital initiation and specialised workshops.
The training course classes which begin from January 19th last approximately 10 weeks, and the workshops which begin from January 27th will last until the end of February and the beginning of March.
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Starting next week, and continuing until the beginning of March, Citilab will be hosting “Women Connect!”, an initiative brought about by the collaboration between Mujeres en Red and the council of Cornellà through the Centro de Información y Recursos para las Mujeres (CIRD) .
The courses will begin on January 12th and continue until approximately March 8th, coinciding with International Women’s Day.
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Ernest Maragall, Minister of Education for the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, visited Citilab last Friday and met with the management team. The Citilab work methodology, which is based on giving tools and knowledge to members of the public to help them use technology, coincides perfectly with the ideas the ministry has for schools in Catalonia.
Programming as a pillar of education
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On January 24 Citilab—Cornellà will be hosting a qualifying round of the First Lego League, a spectacular competition of programmable robots built with pieces of Lego MindStormsTM. During the day, 16 teams of youngsters between 10 and 16 will participate in this ambitious scientific and technological project in which they have to think like engineers and scientists to construct a global action plan for the environment.
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The objective of the robotics workshop is to stimulate creativity and innovation both in youngsters over the age of 12, and adults, using easily accessible materials. The sessions will take place in Citilab-Cornellà beginning on January 27th and ending in March. There will be two evening courses or ten weeks duration.
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Citilab was the scene of a great technological party where the stars were the robots in competition in the First Lego League. The competition was streamed live on Citilab TV and could be followed on Twitter.
The First Lego Legaue heats
Climatic connections
Scientific challenge in which the participants investigate how the climate affects the community, identify a problem that it causes and discover how to resolve it.Robot competition
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After almost 4 months hard work designing and programming a winning robot, the victorious teams of the First Lego League stepped up to receive their prizes jumping for joy, smiling and hugging one another, in an atmosphere of a euphoric sporting final. The 16 teams of youths aged between 10 and 16 who competed fiercely against the clock and rounds of 2 1/2 minutes, also had to demonstrate before a scientific tribunal that their plan of action to improve the environment was the best.
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Curiosity is a typical quality of children and one which makes them explore and ask “why?" about everything. It is also the starting point for science and technology but often things are explained in an unattractive and uninteresting way.
