Messina beats Asia 1-0. It is known that students from Japan, China and Korea are very good and disciplined, but sometimes good things also come out of the maligned Italian school. In Messina the boys ofInstitute Verona Trento they created the first all-Italian electric car. They built it together with the teachers in a project that expresses the desire for a less polluted world.
In Messina we take the "via dello Strait"
The boys of Verona Trento received compliments from the mayor of Messina Federico Basile and the entire city. The news of their feat is going around the world. We tell it starting with a question: why do Asians go to such great lengths to do things that in Italy we manage to do at school? Good Giorgia Meloni to tear up the Silk Road. Here we take the "via dello Strait".
While we're at it, we don't know if the boys also wanted to give a gift to the Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini so that only electric cars travel on the coveted bridge.
At the Municipality of Messina, however, talented young people were presented as the most sensitive to environmental issues, starting with the cars that pollute.
From this point of view, Messina is no different from other cities. When and if the cars are lowered from the Bridge, we will have to be very alert.
From scrap to technological jewel
One for now old Renault 5 abandoned, it has been completely and seriously "turned over" as tailors once did with worn-out clothes.
The internal combustion engine - the one that should no longer exist in Europe by 2035 - has been replaced with a "electric motor in direct current coupled directly to the original transmission of the car”. And yes it works. After all Henry Ford e Karl Benz, inventors of the automobile, only eliminated the horses from the old carriages.
The history of Messina has gradually become more exciting. The Sicilian Institute has invested in technologies to allow children to explore sustainable horizons during hours in the laboratory. Even the complicated global issue of lithium for batteries has been resolved thanks to CNR ITAE which gave the kids a remotely monitored power storage system. There was no need to go and buy lithium anywhere in the world because the money isn't there. What if they had asked the Minister of Education Joseph Vallettara would he have given them? Indeed, if you have them, make them available to increase activities.
A project that gives hope
The innovative project was carried out thanks to the passion and commitment of the entire school community, who worked together to create a vehicle that respects the environment and is eco-sustainable from an energy point of view, he said Simonetta Di Prima, the school director.
In short, the Italian school is also capable of surprising. This is a concrete example of how public education it can become a training ground for tackling real problems. Politics that discuss school reform turns on itself. Do you know what happens in certain institutes? In the South, moreover.
Economic resources for education are always very scarce. But as happened in Messina, good ideas can be realized despite the national complaint about school chaos.
Lastly, did the car manufacturers know about this experiment? Because if Fiat-FCA-Stellantis If they are interested, they can call the students of Messina without further trouble for their electric car. Sicily is much closer than China.
