Those enrolled in Management Engineering courses at the "Smart Green Island Makeathon" together with the ASA Group
Three students of the University of the Republic of San Marino took part in a 'technological marathon' scheduled from 1 to 4 March in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, thanks to a partnership between the San Marino University and the ASA Group, Titan company with seven plants in Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, mainly active in the metal packaging sector for the food sector, from oils to powdered milk, and chemicals, from paints to thinners.
Selected from 17 candidates and enrolled in Management Engineering courses, Valentina Mini, Samanta Pazzini and Riccardo Andreoli flew to the Spanish islands to become part of the teams that conceived and developed some technologically innovative prototypes in a four-day full immersion . Together with them Matteo Masi, a former student of the University of San Marino and now an employee of the ASA Group.
The event, "Smart Green Island Makeathon", was organized by ITQ, a German company primarily engaged in the development of software and engineering systems. Hundreds of participants from about thirty countries, including those enrolled in about fifty academic institutions including, in addition to the University of San Marino, the Université Paris-Saclay, the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, the University of Cambridge and the Motion Lab of Berlin.
“I was part of a group of about twenty people who built a machine to transform plastic bottles into filament for 3D printers,” explains Mini. “Specifically – continues the student – I gave my contribution in the financial and communication aspects, within a project that involved very different and specific figures such as IT and mechanical engineers. One of the main challenges - she explains - was to integrate and work profitably in a multicultural context, given that people from continents such as Asia and Africa were also present, as well as transversal from the point of view of the many skills involved ”.
"This initiative represents a virtuous example of support and coaching, by a local company, for our University and our students", explains Leonardo Tagliente, deputy director of the Management Engineering degree course at the University of San Marino. "It adds to the many supplementary initiatives of traditional teaching, aimed at developing transversal skills and valuable contacts with companies".
