STEAM Sare: Gravitating Bodies

In the framework of the STEAM Euskadi strategy promoted by the Basque Government through Innobasque, we find among other initiatives STEAM Sare, a network of secondary schools and socio-economic agents (industry, universities, research centres and other entities with STEM professionals) that work together to offer young people a realistic, positive and diverse image of STEM disciplines and professions, adding the ‘A’ for art, to inspire vocations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, with special attention to female students.

DIPC has been actively contributing to these objectives for many years and in 2022 formally joined STEAM Sare through the co-creation of the activity ‘Gravitational Bodies’, in collaboration with teachers from the Ikastola Lauaxeta (Bizkaia) and the artist Saioa Olmo.

The pilot test of this activity was carried out by DIPC post-doctoral researchers Marcos Pellejero and Sergio Contreras, and took place at the Lauaxeta centre. After a positive assessment by the teaching staff, ‘Gravitational Bodies’ became part of the STEAM Sare catalogue of activities offered to Secondary and High School students in the Basque Country.