Our friends from Diário de Coimbra sent us a newspaper clipping about our visit to the 1st Jardim Escola João de Deus (we didn’t tell you, but this is technically the oldest elementary school in Portugal).
For the ones among you who don’t know, Diário de Coimbra is much more than a newspaper – for us it’s an institution. So, you can hardly imagine how proud we are!
And now, please forgive us for a little bit of Portuguese, but it’s more than appropriate: Bem-haja aos nossos amigos do Diário de Coimbra.
Today was instituted in honor of Rómulo de Carvalho, born on this day. Rómulo de Carvalho was a secondary school teacher, researcher of the History of Science and Education in Portugal (and also a poet, but that’s another topic). He is, to a certain extent, one of our most important science communicators.
Today was the day to pay our tribute to him, by visiting the 1st Jardim-Escola João de Deus de Coimbra. It is a labor of patience to try to sow a harvest that sprouts so late, but the immense joy, curiosity and innocence with which we were received washed our souls clean.
We were at peak anxiety: after all, this is not our normal “audience”! But it went well – looking back, We’re starting to believe it couldn’t have been any other way. No effort was spared, no help was held back: from the Amazing Lab project team, whose implementation was only possible because Feedzai believed in us, from the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, as well as from the headmistress and respective team of the I Jardim-Escola João de Deus – Coimbra.
We were received as if we were at home. And we want to go back – really. We can’t wait to continue with this collaboration effort. We returned with renewed hope and our hearts full of joy. Tired, but immensely happy.
We were among the winning proposals for the second call of the First Foundation initiative. We would like to thank Feedzai and the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra for supporting us.
Today, we hosted several activities for 12 groups of very special guests – almost 240 students from all over the country. We hoped they enjoyed the visit, at least as much as we enjoyed their interest and participation.
We had a visit of a group of teachers and students from Macedonia, Turkey, Hungary and Serbia, which are hosted by the Escola Secundaria Alves Martins, from Viseu, as part of an Erasmus exchange.
Our new chairs have arrived – we think they look very cool! But don’t take our word for it – you’ll have to try them to check how comfortable they are.
