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.
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