There are schools and schools, competitions and competitions, countless prizes won, praised, praised, where paradoxically everyone wins and everyone is a winner. But there are also big competitions, those in which very few are able to compete, those that require skills in innovation and teaching that only very few teachers and managers have.
In the largest of the national competitions, the one on the simulated enterprise, in which the use of technologies is decisive and real tasks, didactics by competence, role play, metaverse and creative thinking merge, the Majorana of Milazzo dominates, demonstrating with facts to be the best technological institute in Italy.
«Once again the goals achieved confirm the high quality standard of a school whose mission is innovation, action research, students’ educational success, the acquisition of soft and hard skills, as key elements to build the future intellectual human capital, necessary to create that social capital which becomes social value, which alone is able to make the context to which it belongs competitive, making it competitive on global markets and incredibly rich economically and in turn preparing future generations for the many challenges related to the sustainable use of the planet’s resources» – comments the headteacher, Bruno Lorenzo Castrovincito the news of the result achieved by their students engaged on 5 and 6 June in the final competitions of the National Championships of Entrepreneurship (Simulated Enterprise) organized by JA Italia in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Merit.
At the end of a two-day marathon at the Bocconi University of Milan, the students of the Technological Majorana of Milazzo who, during the current school year, as part of the Three-Year Plan of the Training Offer relating to Pathways on Soft Skills and Orientation ( PCTO) of the Institute, had passed the regional phases of the competition through participation in the “Enterprise in Action” program of JA Italia and the creation of mini-companies, many of them reached the final phase.
In fact, nine of the institute’s teams which, dealing with 60 “companies” from all over the national territory, for a total of over 200 secondary school students from all over Italy, managed to convince of the validity of the project and the effectiveness of the work of a group of teacher-tutors, coordinated by the contact person, prof. Giuseppe Massimo Bucca, gaining the highest recognition.
In fact, it was the mini-company’s turn WashMeUp JA the title Best Business in Action 2023 thanks to the realization of Cedar Pods, a dishwasher cleaner made from plant-based and biodegradable ingredients. The working group, the 3rd C of the institute’s health biotechnology address, represented in Milan by the students Miriam Campagna, Giulia Cambria, Angelo Lombardo and by professor Nicola Conte, have demonstrated once again how sensitive the new generations are and skilled interpreters of the most urgent and current environmental issues, capable and brilliant in putting brilliant ideas and entrepreneurial spirit into play.
Great satisfaction for the rich booty, but equally great pride and responsibility for the winning team that will represent Italy at European level in the JA Europe Company of the Year Competition, which will be held in Istanbul from 11 to 14 July.
On the other hand, the Mamertine institute is not new to such successes and today it flies towards new and ambitious goals, innovating and renewing itself more and more; numerous awards have been received over the years precisely for the attention and dedication with which the institute and the work team have always promoted the development of emerging technologies and the process of empowerment of its students, enthralling and actively involving them and promoting the development of fundamental skills for their future.
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