Schools Study Innovation at the Pirelli Foundation
InsideEdu is a video-interview project that gives a voice to the children and young people taking part in the educational activities of the Pirelli Foundation Educational programme. The video camera followed the students around during the courses – watching them visit the Pirelli Foundation and coming face to face with original documents, such as patents and advertising sketches, seeing them intent on participating in meetings with experts, and putting into practice what they have learnt by creating their own advertising campaigns or programming a robot and getting it to work. Their impressions and opinions have been gathered during the courses and can now be seen in this video – the first in a series – showing how they tackle the subject of innovation, which in recent years has become increasingly key to the business world, as well as to that of schools and education.
Pirelli has accumulated almost 150 years of history, research, and production, which means that its technological development model is an interesting example for young students, who increasingly need to deal with new technologies and with the capacity for innovation in companies. With over 6,100 patents registered since 1872, the company’s Research and Development laboratories continue to experiment, in order to create ever-more innovative high-performance products, but also with an increasingly watchful eye on sustainability and safety. In its Historical Archive, the Pirelli Foundation preserves records of this continuous research, in the form of technical charts and drawings, projects, studies and research into materials.
During the “Mechanical eyes, robots, and music for the digital factory” course, the presence of Pirelli engineers specialised in new tyre-production processes helped the students find out about the functions and potential offered by the Next MIRS automated robotic system and by Automatic Visual Inspection (AVI), which makes it possible to automatically detect any possible defects in the tyre. They were then able to build their own little robot and experiment with programming it.
What do young people expect from innovation and advances in technology? “Cities made of robots” and “machines that can perform tasks that make it possible to make life easier and have new experiences, without the need for human intervention” are just a couple of the answers that the young interviewees give in the video. It is therefore important to show them that even the use of new technologies and artificial intelligence requires human mediation, and to highlight the importance of developing skills that make it possible to work with intelligent machines. To make sure that schools, too, are prepared for an increasingly digital and connected future.
InsideEdu is a video-interview project that gives a voice to the children and young people taking part in the educational activities of the Pirelli Foundation Educational programme. The video camera followed the students around during the courses – watching them visit the Pirelli Foundation and coming face to face with original documents, such as patents and advertising sketches, seeing them intent on participating in meetings with experts, and putting into practice what they have learnt by creating their own advertising campaigns or programming a robot and getting it to work. Their impressions and opinions have been gathered during the courses and can now be seen in this video – the first in a series – showing how they tackle the subject of innovation, which in recent years has become increasingly key to the business world, as well as to that of schools and education.
Pirelli has accumulated almost 150 years of history, research, and production, which means that its technological development model is an interesting example for young students, who increasingly need to deal with new technologies and with the capacity for innovation in companies. With over 6,100 patents registered since 1872, the company’s Research and Development laboratories continue to experiment, in order to create ever-more innovative high-performance products, but also with an increasingly watchful eye on sustainability and safety. In its Historical Archive, the Pirelli Foundation preserves records of this continuous research, in the form of technical charts and drawings, projects, studies and research into materials.
During the “Mechanical eyes, robots, and music for the digital factory” course, the presence of Pirelli engineers specialised in new tyre-production processes helped the students find out about the functions and potential offered by the Next MIRS automated robotic system and by Automatic Visual Inspection (AVI), which makes it possible to automatically detect any possible defects in the tyre. They were then able to build their own little robot and experiment with programming it.
What do young people expect from innovation and advances in technology? “Cities made of robots” and “machines that can perform tasks that make it possible to make life easier and have new experiences, without the need for human intervention” are just a couple of the answers that the young interviewees give in the video. It is therefore important to show them that even the use of new technologies and artificial intelligence requires human mediation, and to highlight the importance of developing skills that make it possible to work with intelligent machines. To make sure that schools, too, are prepared for an increasingly digital and connected future.
