ICT Expo 2008

On December 17th from 4pm to 9pm, there will be a presentation of the projects developed by 4th, 5th and 6th-year students from the ICT track, ORT Technical School, Belgrano campus (2845 Montañeses St.).

Some of the works you will be able to see are related to video games, virtual reality, websites, mobile devices, and simulation.

The project “Eye Mouse – A Project for a Better Life Quality” will be exhibited. This project developed by Nicolás Amaro and Nicolás Ponieman won the 1st prize at “2008 Technological Innovation” contest organized by the Argentine-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

This project enables people with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) -or those who have a handicap which doesn’t allow them to use the traditional mouse- to operate a computer with the movement of their eyes.

Please, confirm your attendance to tic@ort.edu.ar or to 4789-6540.

Roboliga Awards

Roboliga, the annual event which comprises Robotics Olympiads and a Project Fair on Automation and Robotics, was held on November 2nd.

In the “Sumo Robot” category, one of ORT Almagro teams achieved the 1st position for the second consecutive year. At the Project Fair, ORT Belgrano campus got the 1st position in the “Automated Control” category for the Domotics project. Such project also received a trophy for the ‘best project’ of the whole Fair.

The participants were students from 4th, 5th and 6th year from the Electronics track of Almagro campus and from the ICT track of Belgrano campus. The winner robot -"SonPark"- belongs to the group of 4th-year students from the Electronics track (Almagro campus): Ignacio Wolfsdorf Baigorria, Darío Szlain and Alan Elkin. The Domotics project –which won the 1st position at the advanced level of the “Automated Control” category – was developed by 5th and 6th-year students from the ICT track (Belgrano campus): Ezequiel Terranova, Yago Alonso, Pablo Loschi and Nechevenko Schuster.

ICT track at Belgrano University

On October 31st and November 1st, ORT (represented by the ICT track) was the only high school which participated in the exhibition of technological projects, together with leading companies, like GameLoft, Calipso, Sia Interactive, and IBM, among others.

On this occasion, 5th and 6th-year students exhibited the Domotics Project, which consists of controlling different home appliances by means of a PC, SMS and/or Bluetooth.

Conference: Why do we believe that dark matter exists?

On October 10th, Dr. Susana Judith Landau will give a lecture called “Why do we believe that dark matter exists?” at Noel Werthein Auditorium, Almagro campus.

Dr. Landau works at the Physics Department of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences School of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from the UBA, a PhD in Astronomy from the Astronomy and Geophysics School of the National University of La Plata, and she is an Assistant Researcher at the CONICET.

Those who attend the meeting will have the chance to know what astronomers and physicists call ‘dark matter’. Then, they will get a detailed description of astronomical observations in galaxies and clusters of galaxies, which lead us to think that such type of matter exists in the universe.

There are limited vacancies, so those who are interested in attending please contact the Physics Department.

Presentation of the Mouse Emulator Project

Alan Kharsansky, David Vilaseca and Dario Mischener, teachers from the ICT track, Belgrano Campus, presented the Mouse Emulator Project for Disabled People on August 19th at the VII Latin American Congress on Special Educational Computing; the VII Latin American Exhibition of Computing, Telecommunications and Software Companies; and the II International Forum on Adaptive Technology and Technical Support.

ORT Virtual Campus Distinguished at Canal AR

On August 27th, the digital newspaper “Canal AR” -specialized in the new information technologies (ITs)- published an article titled “Web 2.0 got to the School”. The article highlights the experience of ORT Virtual Campus, which enables the access to students’ and teachers’ productions through a net of weblogs.

The news article was produced from a video interview that Guillermo Lutzky –ORT Virtual Campus Director- gave to the digital magazine “Qué es Comunicación” (What’s Communication). Lutzky told them that the project was supported by the Institution, which decided to search for a redefinition of the school, by placing it in 10 years’ time and within the framework of the Information Society. “From the very beginning we knew that all our students had access to the Internet, most of them from home and others from cybercafés. Then we thought that the classroom could be enlarged far beyond the classroom environment, so many initiatives were generated through publication and production channels on the Internet”, explained Lutzky.

ORT at Marcos Aguinis’ New Book

We are very pleased to inform that the writer Marcos Aguinis has mentioned “ORT Sponsorship Project” in the “Good News” chapter of his new book called “The Atrocious Charm of Being Argentine 2”.

ORT Sponsorship Project is carried out by a group of students, graduates and teachers from the Industrial Design track (Belgrano campus) at a country school in Villa Adela, in the north of Santa Fe Province.

To view the page of the book where the project is mentioned click on the following link: http://www.ort.edu.ar/marcosaguinis.htm

Solidarity Project with Francisco de Vitoria School

Within the framework of the Ceibo Project - Solidarity School, which promotes the practice of solidarity as an educational experience in all our students, 5th-year students from the Business Administration track (Almagro campus) are working on the creation of a ‘toy library’. This is carried out along with the students' coordinator, Lic. Liliana Kuperman, and 7th-grade students from Francisco de Vitoria School.

This primary public school is near our campus. After the first meetings and visits on the part of our students, we agreed (together with the School’s principals and teachers) that ORT students could not only pass on knowledge and acquired experiences, but also help in the continuous improvement of Francisco de Vitoria School. For that reason, ORT students have been working with 7th-graders from such institution in order to equip a playing room according to the needs and characteristics of the little ones.

Last Friday they visited our school and 5th-year students were the ones in charge of the ‘tour’ around ORT.

F. Onetto says: “The human being is not only satisfied with receiving; he has the need to give. The need to give is the need to experiment that one can do people good, can take care of others, heal, protect and nourish them. Doing people good is also gratifying because the other gets some benefit. By providing opportunities to take care, feed, teach, help and assist others, we are creating well-being conditions”. Therefore, we will continue building spaces where our students can develop active and committed bonds with the surrounding community. Soon you will get more news on this project, so that we can continue sharing such a fruitful experience.

ORT at “Científicos, Industria Argentina”

The well-known TV program “Científicos, Industria Argentina”, which is presented by Adrián Paenza on channel 7, broadcast material on the “Mouse Emulator for Disabled People” project. Such project was developed by teachers and students from ORT Information and Communication Technology track, Belgrano campus.

To view the broadcast (in Spanish), click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8cAQcdF6ok&eurl=