Award at the Robotics International Festival in Pisa: Tecnovisionaria

Award at the Robotics International Festival. An email, one among the many ones, where it was written: “We would like to award you as Tecnovisionaria.”

I search online and find out it’s an amazing prize which even Samantha Cristoforetti was awarded.

Award at the Robotics International Festival

Tecnovisionarie is an award which is given every year to people who in their job have witnessed to have got vision, privileging the social impact, the transparency in their behaviours and ethic.

So last Wednesday I went out school and I went to Pisa! It was our award night gala!

The location is wonderful.

We started with a briefing among the seven of us awarded and I had the chance to meet people with very interesting stories, great women who are changing the world!

Great women changing the world

Particularly two stories struck me.

The story of Paola Ricciardi Castagnoli: she’s a female scientist who spent her life abroad and now she’s come back and taken worth to Italy trying to create the captivating conditions thanks to which the brain drain can come back!

But the story that struck me most was Amy Kerdok’s one.

A Californian girl who created a medical robot operating with more arms to do operations less invasive possible.

We met each other, she told me her story and I told her mine and…guess what? She invited me to California and see here company with all the robots, even more developed than the one she took to Italy.

Appointment de rigueur of my next journey to California in December!

But let’s come back to the Tecnovisionaria award at the Robotics International Festival.

Award at the Robotics International Festival, Tecnovisionaria: special mention for the educational robotics

My award was a special mention for the educational robotics.

I was awarded for my determination, courage and willing to do and for how I teach children and young people robotics.

“She was able to overcome the limits of her own really young age and build – in the most concrete meaning of the term – her personal vision of future.”

For me it was a real honour to receive this prize, a very beautiful evening, many connections and…a bit of freshness among the university professors and rectors.

Award at the Robotics International Festival: the school I dream

The school I dream and that I try to make a bit through my robotics courses was able to contaminate a bit Pisa, too!