November 15, 2017
Dr. Amy D'Amico, Division Director for Professional Services at the Smithsonian Science Education Center, was a technical advisor for the initiative called "Portable Laboratories" of the Allende Connelly Foundation and the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile. This initiative brings experiential learning from the Portable Laboratory to public schools of the Metropolitan Region so that students can engage in inquiry-based science education firsthand. This initiative achieved support of the Ministry of Education in 2016 and is now in seven regions of the country with the support of nine universities. In addition to Dr. D'Amico, who represented science education in the United States, other technical support came from colleagues in Italy and France.
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http://www.uchile.cl/noticias/138587/escolares-de-regiones-e...