SokoTech co-founder. University of Illinois B.F.A, M.Sc. and Assistant Professor. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Fab Academy graduate. On 2015 co-founded SokoTech, a citizen laboratory dedicated to social innovation projects focused on the arts, science and technology. The purpose of SokoTech is to extend the use and understanding of technology, science, engineering, art and mathematics among society as a whole, without taking into account age, level of knowledge, status, capacities or gender.
mariona@soko.tech / @mariondita
He is an Associate Professor at La Salle Campus Barcelona – Universitat Ramon Llull (URL), Director of Robotics at La Salle Almere and Innovation Manager of Social Robotics at Everis-NTT Data. He has a PhD in Mechatronic, Robotic and Automation Engineering, a Masters in Telecommunications and a degree in Electronic Engineering, all three from La Salle-Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona).
@TxemaArenas
Musician, involved in the transformation of education and in the impact of art on the education of people, she is a primary and secondary school teacher, a teacher trainer and was a professor at UB’s Faculty of Teacher Training. She has also worked for the Education Department’s Innovation and Research Service, for the School Education Council of Catalonia and for the Jaume Bofill Foundation, on the Escola Nova 21 programme. In the past she has been a trainer for ICE at UAB, for the Rosa Sensat Teachers’ Association and for the Education Department. She has cooperated with ICFO’s Educators Advisory Team and formed part of the editorial committee for the journal Perspectiva Escolar. She currently works in the Area of Innovation, Programmes and Training of Barcelona’s Education Consortium, on the ‘Xarxes per al canvi’ programme (Networks for change). (#Xarxesperalcanvi)
Passionate about education, he is a secondary school teacher. He was one of the founders of the Les Vinyes School in Castellbisbal, part of the UAB’s (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) innovative institute network. He has been the driving force behind projects on education assessment, learning strategies and creativity in the classroom. He collaborates with other centres, institutions and groups to help them transform education. Currently he is Assistant Director of the Escola Nova 21 programme.
@MartiBuCar
Director of CESIRE, Department of Education, Generalitat de Catalunya. I am situated at the border between education and the dissemination and communication of science. I think that a good teacher is not far from being a communicator with fundamentals of didactics and his field of knowledge, high abilities of observation and empathy. I have been teaching at secondary school and the university, I have done teaching staff (initial and permanent) and I am also very comfortable working with primary school teachers (I am very respectful to children and I leave it for professionals). Defend a quality public education, which forms critical citizens, with their own criteria and able to develop autonomously in a technified society that changes very rapidly.
@lamirada
Maths and projects teacher at the Institut-Escola Les Vinyes and associate professor at UB and of the Master’s on Teacher Training. He is interested in transformation processes that contribute to compensating the amount of traditional materials and contents, favouring others that focus on actions, the resolution of problems and learning. His interests also focus on altering assessment methods, making them more diagnostic and less coercive, giving students a bigger role and more responsibility.
smoral3@xtec.cat / @sergidelmoral
A biologist by trade and an educator by vocation, she is director of the Virolai School of Barcelona. She is a member of different educational organisations —FEAEC, the School Education Council of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council. As an expert on different subjects she has participated in educational seminars and conferences.
@SusanaNavarroSN
Industrial electrical engineer from UPC, with over 20 years of experience in the development and management of automation projects. Advisor on production management technologies and training area at the FundacióCIM. He is passionate about technology and its dissemination and has played with LEGO for as long as he can remember. Director of the Masters Degree on Automation and Robotics at the Fundació CIM / UPC.
@fisidabo / @visionsSTEAMAnella
A teacher at Escola Projecte in Barcelona. He is passionate about educational programming and robotics. He is a member of the science committee for the Jaume Bofill Foundation’s Educació Demà programme and of the committee to promote the STEAM Barcelona congress. He has previously participated in the organisation of European editions of the Scratch Conference (Barcelona’13, Amsterdam’15 and Bordeaux’17). He is an advisor for the Magnet alliance between the Montessori School in Rubí and CIM UPC. He shares his knowledge during face-to-face teacher training sessions and on his YouTube channel ‘Scratch en 5 minuts’.
@cesirecat
