Coding skills and employment for vulnerable people

In this project we seek to develop skills so that people have the tools to face the challenges faced by the pandemic caused by covid 19, in the last 2 months we have accompanied 12 young people from the municipality of Bolombolo Antioquia with a Bootcamp on social innovation , promoting the development of ICT skills in young people, the objective of the Bootcamp is that they develop skills to identify problematic aspects and conditions of their environment that can be solved or improved through the development of prototypes that incorporate Arduino, circuits and 3D design.

At the end of the training of 65 hours, the young people will have identified a local problem identified by themselves, who are those who know closely the reality of their territory, they will be able to address their interests and challenges using the skills developed in the course

To promote self-care through the use of technology in times of pandemic, due to covid 19, different activities were developed, including innovation laboratories that would allow young people from Medellín and its surroundings to build different prototypes using code and skills in electronics, to solve and mitigate different problems and threats identified by themselves in their territories.

The exercises were aimed at promoting teamwork around technological projects, involving code and basic skills in robotics, involving good practices in each of the developments, simulating and testing different conditions. Each beneficiary managed to build a prototype at the end of the course and record a video explaining how their creation works, as seen in the videos attached to this report.

Links:

• List of videos created by the beneficiaries