READY, STEADY… GO! Fondazione Pirelli Educational: A Year of Free Activities for Schools
Fondazione Pirelli Educational’s activities for schools kicked off two months ago and more than 600 students have already enjoyed discovering the secrets of the Bicocca area, learning what raw materials are needed and how tyres are made, while also getting to know the most likeable family of cavemen in vintage Carosello television commercials.
Some of the most popular workshops organised in recent years have been refreshed and made more relevant to today’s world, like the “Factory of the Future”, in which students are invited to draw models of the ideal manufacturing plant using 3-D pens.
With the collaboration of our colleagues from Pirelli Communications, budding journalists from the Alessandrini middle school in Cesano Boscone learnt how to draw up a digital communications plan and pick the topics that are most suitable for grabbing the reader’s attention.
Classes from the Cartesio technical school in Cinisello Balsamo were the first to be accompanied on a one-day visit to the heart of the company: the Pirelli Historical Archive. Through key documents, photographs, objects, and audio-visuals in the Pirelli Foundation, the teenagers learnt about the development of the company that set off from Milan to become a global enterprise. The tour continued in the afternoon at the Industrial Centre in Settimo Torinese, where they received a warm welcome from the workers of this Italian centre of technological excellence, which was renovated by starchitect Renzo Piano.
The first lucky students will soon have the opportunity to step into a place which is usually off-limits: the Next MIRS – Modular Integrated Robotised System – plant in Milano Bicocca. High-performance tyres are made in this plant and the students will observe the painstaking yet delicate operation of the automated machinery that appear to dance to the beat.
The school year has just started and we are ready to continue our journey through the places of Pirelli and discover the world of work and the factory.
Fondazione Pirelli Educational’s activities for schools kicked off two months ago and more than 600 students have already enjoyed discovering the secrets of the Bicocca area, learning what raw materials are needed and how tyres are made, while also getting to know the most likeable family of cavemen in vintage Carosello television commercials.
Some of the most popular workshops organised in recent years have been refreshed and made more relevant to today’s world, like the “Factory of the Future”, in which students are invited to draw models of the ideal manufacturing plant using 3-D pens.
With the collaboration of our colleagues from Pirelli Communications, budding journalists from the Alessandrini middle school in Cesano Boscone learnt how to draw up a digital communications plan and pick the topics that are most suitable for grabbing the reader’s attention.
Classes from the Cartesio technical school in Cinisello Balsamo were the first to be accompanied on a one-day visit to the heart of the company: the Pirelli Historical Archive. Through key documents, photographs, objects, and audio-visuals in the Pirelli Foundation, the teenagers learnt about the development of the company that set off from Milan to become a global enterprise. The tour continued in the afternoon at the Industrial Centre in Settimo Torinese, where they received a warm welcome from the workers of this Italian centre of technological excellence, which was renovated by starchitect Renzo Piano.
The first lucky students will soon have the opportunity to step into a place which is usually off-limits: the Next MIRS – Modular Integrated Robotised System – plant in Milano Bicocca. High-performance tyres are made in this plant and the students will observe the painstaking yet delicate operation of the automated machinery that appear to dance to the beat.
The school year has just started and we are ready to continue our journey through the places of Pirelli and discover the world of work and the factory.
