By Luz Amuchastegui | Youth Development Director
The last couple of months have been super busy and packed with fun as the kids received a great visit from an amazing friend from India – Elsa D’Silva – Founder of Red Dot Foundation and SafeCity - that helps fight Gender Based Violence using technology by crowd sourcing information and mapping it.
For our coders this visit was inspiring not only because it showed them that simple solutions can fix big problems, but also because it involved what they liked the most- technology!
Among other projects they started using Design Thinking methodology to find solutions for problems and in that sense they had to design an alarm for a house – all of which- they had to design and execute themselves.
There’s still much more to come on the following months – including the 3rd Edition of our Happy Cities Festival; an event to think with other citizens how we build our own city to make us happy, and explore subjects such as mobility, social capital and youth development. This will be in Rosario on October 27 & 28 – check our website ciudadesfelices.com and come visit us over here!
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