Specific projects concerning scientific subjects to expand the educational offer
Competitions in mathematics and physics
For more than thirty years, our institute has been preparing the most gifted students in these subjects
for the numerous competitions offered by associations and universities.
The students, already selected from the first classes, meet weekly in extra curricular hours for team
training sessions led by school teachers and external teachers or former students.
This is why they present themselves to competitions with excellent preparation.
The spirit of healthy competition, teamwork, personal research and comparison with other
scholastic realities constitute a precious opportunity to enhance excellence.
“Biology with biomedical curvature”.
Our high school is one of the institutes selected by the Ministry of Education to experiment with a
model that provides for collaboration between the School and the provincial Order of Surgeons and
Dentists.
The course, aimed at undergraduate students, lasts three years for a total of 150 hours. High school
science teachers and specialist doctors alternate in conducting the lessons, during which some
aspects of anatomy and pathology are studied in depth. The annual number of hours also includes
10 hours “in the field”, i.e. activities carried out face-to-face or remotely in healthcare facilities,
hospitals and analysis laboratories.
Indeed, the objective is to help students in the delicate phase of post-graduate orientation, in order
to facilitate their university and professional choices: frontal and field lessons, as well as providing
solid training to successfully support university admission tests, will help students understand their
real attitudes towards medical studies and professions in the health sector.
WormEx II experiment: since 2012 an experiment of spontaneous renaturalization of a portion of the
school garden, initially deprived of vegetation, has been underway. The natural transformation of
this area was studied for eight years, scientifically detecting the plants that have followed one
another over time and carrying out statistical analyzes on the evolutionary trend of vegetation
development. In next spring we will continue on a more extensive stretch and we will see how
nature can wonderfully develop even in an urbanized area.
In addition, in spring 2022, two Wormstones were placed in the garden on the east side of the
school with the aim of re-proposing Darwin’s experiment. By measuring the sinking of these stones
in the field, the activity of the earthworms is indirectly measured and the speed with which the soil
is formed is studied.
The laboratory teaches how to recognize plants that grow spontaneously, to observe the
transformation of man-tended greenery into wild green, to appreciate natural vegetation, to evaluate
biodiversity, to apply the scientific method to carry out surveys and to use the sheet of excel
calculation for the acquisition and the elaboration of the data.
Air quality monitoring
The students involved built an air quality monitoring station, which has been placed in the school
courtyard. The electronic sensors installed on the Arduino board have made it possible to detect the
concentration of suspended particles or gases in the atmosphere.
Students learn to use the programming language of the Arduino platform. The graph of the data,
collected on a daily or weekly basis, is sent via Wi-Fi to a computer for study and archiving.

Our high school was founded in 1984 and welcomes students from both the city and its surroundings. It has
been hit by a deep crisis and has been affected by the consequences of the pandemic. Despite this, it is an
active context with a high economic development, there are universities and important cultural institutions
and this year it was elected as the Italian capital of culture.

The training course has expanded over the years and offers students many scholastic and extracurricular
activities. The high school guarantees a broad cultural preparation which gives the possibility of successfully
attending any university degrees; in fact, the ratio of students starting university and completing university
studies is high.The current training offer includes, alongside the traditional high school, various other classes to adapt to
the new cultural and professional needs of the area.

● Physics and mathematics classes: considers a greater use of information technologies, gives
suitable preparation for a university course in mathematics, physics, information technology and
engineering, much in demand in the workplace
● European language classes (English, German and French in the EsaBac scientific high school)
instead offer the possibility of deepening the English language or learning another language
(German or French) by acquiring skills that can be used both in the university and in the workplace
in a territory, such as the Brescia area, with industries, commercial enterprises and tourist
structures.
● Classes in communication languages: responds to the need to train students with skills in the
various aspects of communication.
● Biomedicine classes: responds to the increased interest of students for degrees in the health
sector, revealed by the analysis of university enrollment data and is closely linked to the systematic
use of chemistry and biology laboratories and collaboration with hospitals and universities.

Furthermore, it is correct to talk about the importance that we also give to other aspects that are not
strictly related to teaching and study. We also want to mention activities that are linked to: welcoming
foreign students – inclusion – the culture of solidarity – raising awareness and combating gender-based
violence.
In our high school the number of students from non-European countries is constantly increasing. They are
very intellectually gifted girls and boys who can use their skills if they know the Italian language better. We
have therefore activated two Italian language courses relating to two levels of competence and knowledge
of the language and which have had excellent results and great success.
In our high school we are very attentive to special educational needs, which are also on the increase and
which provide for the activation of individualized courses and greater attention from teachers, who are
trained and sensitized.
We are also proud that a “CIMPUNDA” volunteer group has been present in our school for decades. It is the
name of a group of high school students and teachers who meet to promote and organize voluntary
activities both inside and outside the school. The goal is to raise awareness that there is a world of need
and poverty to which we owe our attention and our help. There are many activities: preparation and
distribution of dinner to the guests of a “family home”, collection of clothes and food, charity sale of
panettone, Easter eggs and sweets. The proceeds go to finance a collaborative project with the “Meru

Children’s Home” orphanage in Nkabune, Kenya. An internship is also planned for some students, with our
teachers, at the orphanage, to look after the children and organize educational activities.
Four years ago, a network of schools was created in Brescia, of which we are part, whose name is “At
school against violence against women”. This aims to raise awareness and combat gender-based violence
through activities, experiences, interventions by activists, operators of anti-violence centers, lawyers to
educate and train in the culture of respect, knowing and eliminating cultural and social stereotypes and
prejudices. From March 23, the high school will also host an exhibition entitled “What were you wearing”
which our students will help set up.
For more than a decade, a theater workshop has been present in our high school in the afternoon which
ends with the creation and representation of an original theatrical show in which many girls and boys
participate with great passion under the direction of a teacher and a young and talented director. Before
the pandemic we received a prestigious local and youth award for a show made by this team.
No less important are the filmforums: one in Italian, the other in French, which are also followed with great
success and which are held in the afternoon.
Last but not least is the “Copechic” which is one of the few examples in Italy of a “simulated enterprise”
created within a school. Students learn how to run a clothing company – they are used clothes that are sold
to donate the money to charity – in every aspect. We have found the educational value of this “experiment”
for understanding the economic aspects related to a commercial activity.