Today, the Tibidabo Amusement Park welcomed more than 2,400 4th year Baccalaureate and compulsory secondary education students from around seventy schools
Tibidabo has hosted a series of STEAM activities related to physics organised by Barcelona de Serveis Municipals (BSM) and by professors of the Physics Engineering Program at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
For a day, Tibidabo becomes a physics laboratory. Throughout the morning, the Amusement Park hosted a new edition of Fisidabo, a day of scientific activities organised for the sixth consecutive year by Barcelona de Serveis Municipals (BSM) and professors from the Physical Engineering Programme at the Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia - BarcelonaTech (UPC), led by Professor Luis Carlos Pardo.
This year, the Fisidabo has reached a record number of participants, with a total of 2,487 4th-year Baccalaureate and compulsory secondary education students. A total of 71 schools attended, 54 of which were from the city of Barcelona and the metropolitan area, and the remaining 17 from other parts of the territory (12 from the districts of Girona, 4 from Lleida and 1 from Tarragona).
The STEAM project is based on the promotion of science among young people with the aim of encouraging scientific vocations in a fun and academically rigorous way. At the same time, it has a particular focus on girls to help break down stereotypes and encourage scientific vocations among girls by encouraging female scientific leaders.
At the top of Tibidabo, students took measurements, did calculations and applied their knowledge of physics, both inside and outside of the area of the amusement rides. The rides have been turned into scientific tests with the aim of providing students with knowledge through hands-on experiments.
Among other tasks, the participants had to calculate the acceleration, speed and energy of the Roller Coaster, study the forces acting on the Piratta, see why the Miramiralls mirrors reflect the images in different ways or discover how quickly the Cuca de Llum funicular railway reaches the top of the mountain.
Conferences such as Fisidabo also contribute to promoting pedagogical innovation in the classroom because students participate in the experiments after having worked on in-class material prior to the STEAM sessions. There is also a firm commitment to improving the educational qualifications of teachers: on 19 April, a training session for teachers was held at the Tibidabo Amusement Park.
STEAM BSM: educational innovation in emblematic areas of the city
The Fisidabo is part of an educational project based on the STEAM methodology that BSM and the UPC have co-organised together for the last six years. Over the course of the year, it takes place during four sessions in emblematic spaces in Barcelona. These sessions have already been held at the Palau Sant Jordi and the Parc del Fòrum, with a total of more than 3,600 participants.
The next STEAM session will take place on 16 November at the Zoo de Barcelona. In this way, BSM continues to reinforce its commitment to the social and educational use of some of the emblematic spaces in Barcelona that it manages.
