A visit to the 70th Primary School of Athens, one of the 100 schools of the capital city that were selected to implement the Robotics pilot program, which is sponsored by the Region of Attica in cooperation with SPECTRAtech S.A., was made by the Governor of Attica, Nikos Hardalias.

The Attica Regional Governor toured the classrooms and spoke with teachers and students, highlighting the impact of new technologies in the educational process.

"In the era of AI, the big challenge - but also the big responsibility for us - is how to improve equal access and quality in education, how to bridge the gaps so that education can respond more effectively to the needs of our students and how to ensure that our children have as many skills as possible in a constantly changing world," Mr. Hardalias noted. He added: "Therefore, digital transformation in education is not an option, but a necessity."

The Attica Regional Governor handed over eight educational packages to the teachers and participated with the children in the assembly of the robotics construction.

Mr.Chardalias said that the use of new technologies strengthens education on three levels. "It empowers learning, creative and critical thinking. It promotes interactivity, collaboration and communication between students. It helps children develop new skills, preparing them for a future where technology will be ubiquitous," he said.

The Educational Robotics Programme in numbers:

• The programme provided for 800 educational robotics kits (8 per school unit) distributed to 100 primary schools in the Attica Region, together with the relevant software, in order to conduct specific lessons in the form of model seminars.
• Specialised staff trained a total of 100 teachers of the schools participating in the programme, through training seminars of a total duration of 15 hours each.
• The total number of training hours amounted to 1,500 hours, while during the programme, 4 special training workshops-seminars, each lasting 60 minutes, were scheduled for each school unit.