Once more, the Travelling Scientific Audiovisual Exhibit (MACI) captivated young and old alike, this time at Penco’s Eduardo Campbell Saavedra school, where IMO’s Outreach team went to carry out activities with primary school children.

With a team led by marine biologist Belén Franco and monitors Montserrat Aldunate, Darío Torres, Pablo Cisternas and Constanza Merino, MACI again proved its usefulness in the dissemination of sciences and education.

At the beginning, younger students enjoyed the TV series “the Adventures of Ruka”, while the older ones were delighted by “the Power of the Sea”. Subsequently, they went to the classrooms, where each monitor worked with a group of students, reviewing and consolidating the contents in the videos. Through a process of meaningful learning, students became familiar for the very first time with concepts such as zooplankton samples, temperature and salinity.

IMO’s Outreach team member Belén Franco explained: “Teachers expressed their gratitude and interest in continuing to take part in IMO’s Outreach activities. Students were enthusiastic and receptive, which was made clear by their participation.”

Pilar Maldonado, the school’s science teacher, praised the event. “It’s a fun, playful activity that makes us teachers question our own approach, because we probably don’t innovate much. The exhibit is interactive, and the children get very excited. In the past, people used to think that science was only for scientists, so it’s a wonderful thing for IMO to motivate and integrate children into its experience as a scientific institute,” she concluded.

Thus, MACI closed a successful first semester, and it plans to come back even more decisively in August, this time in cooperation with PAR Explora Biobío and the organization “A Sea of Wonders” in the framework of the Year of the Oceans 2017.