“You have to lose the fear of subjects such as mathematics and programming”, claims the engineer Elisenda Bou-Balust
Make young people curious to know. Hooking them on unfairly feared subjects like math and technology. Instill in girls the desire to become scientists. Go to the theater during school time. Visit the mountains and make the boys and girls learn to love nature and respect animals. Instill in the new generations respect for people with functional diversity. This is the enormous task that teachers, a fundamental part of society, have ahead of them. This has been made clear in awards ceremony of the Princess of Girona Foundation (FPdGi), a ceremony that took place this afternoon at the Museu de les Aigües in Cornellà del Llobregat (Barcelona). For the first time, all the winners have been women.
In a speech in Catalan, Spanish and English, princess eleanor has congratulated the five winners for “their strength, their talent and their commitment & rdquor ;. The daughter of the Kings – who in the morning has held a meeting together with her parents and her sister, the infanta Sofía, in the Albéniz palace with the winners of other years – has also had a memory for the boys and girls that ” they have lost so many opportunities” due to the invasion of Ukraine, a war that is “spreading destruction & rdquor ;.
One of the most moving speeches has been that of the psychologist Claudia Tecglen (Social category), which has called for a change in the educational world so that lifelong learning is a common denominator and so that society accepts and coexists with diversity. “One of the happiest moments of my life was when I was 16 years old, when I tied my own shoelaces. I claim the right to access the opportunities we deserve. People with disabilities have talent & rdquor ;, explained Tecglen, leaning on her crutches and joking about the possibility of falling when going up to the podium.
The engineer Elisenda Bou Balust (Company category) and the physicist and researcher Eleanor Viezzer (Scientific Research) have highlighted the importance of teachers encourage girls to love science. “College and institute teachers have a fundamental role not only to teach science but to engage in science & rdquor ;, has assured Viezzer, who has had an emotional memory for a Physics teacher. “Must normalize female leadership. We must lose the fear of subjects such as mathematics and programming & rdquor ;, has asked Bou Balust, entrepreneur of a “technology with soul & rdquor; and an “artificial intelligence that brings humanity back to technology and brings it closer to people & rdquor ;.
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In addition to motivating scientific studies, the conservationist Trang Nguyen (International award winner) has demanded that teachers take time out of the school day to visit the mountains with the students. “Boys and girls will learn many things. And, in addition, they will be better people. Let them wander through a forest and catch a worm. Being in nature is also very important for mental health & rdquor ;, she has concluded.
Actress, playwright and producer Maria Hervas (Arts and Letters category) -protagonist of ‘Jauría’, the play that reflects the brutal rape of ‘la manada’ at the San Fermín festivities in 2016- has asked the teachers to also accompany their students to the theaters, to see works with them and then discuss them because theater “is not only an artistic expression, it is a tool for critical quality & rdquor ;.