Bringing new technology closer to children

The first MINDTECH Campamentos Tecnológicos (MINDTECH Technology Camps) were held from 2 to 20 July. The idea of this groundbreaking educational program, set up by Seville University, is to promote creativity, innovation and a greater knowledge of the new technologies.

GMV has collaborated with Seville University in this initiative. The university always strives to harmonise its member’s working and family lives and on this occasion designed this life-enhancing alternative for the university community’s children and grandchildren aged 8 to 16 and also the public at large.
 

The participants in this program took on a series of activities related to the world of robotics, programming, audiovisual production and the design of videogames, livened up by day-long dynamic activities.

In the robotics and programming module, held from 9 to 13 July in the Higher School of IT Engineering, children were given a fun-based approach to technology, assembling and programming robots to solve the challenges that were set before them.

It was in this module that GMV showed participants the latest research on mobile robots and the host of applications of this technology now being phased in to our daily lives in the form of robot vacuum cleaners, autonomous vehicles or games.

The technology camps top up the offer of summer activities for the offspring of the University community provided by Seville University’s Social Services and Community Board, which also runs Summer Urban Camps and the Sporting Activities Service (Servicio de Actividades Deportivas: SADUS).
 

his initiative chimes in with GMV’s ongoing keenness to develop budding talent in the technology world and forms part of a whole series of activities designed to arouse a passion for engineering and technology amongst youngsters.