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## The Geotec group of the UJI offers the educational community two resources to promote computational thinking among pre-university students

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Sucre4Kids is aimed at the last two years of primary education and Sucre4STEM at the secondary education stage.

The new Spanish education law (known as LOMLOE) has introduced new skills in the school curriculum, the STEM skills, which cover mathematics, science, technology and engineering and which are reflected in new contents such as immersive technologies, educational robotics, digital resources for scientific dissemination or computational thinking and block programming.

The Geospatial Technologies Research Group (GEOTEC), part of the Institute of New Imaging Technologies of the Universitat Jaume I, has created two teaching resources to promote one of these new curricular contents, computational thinking and block programming, which is "the thinking process involved in the formulation of problems and their solutions, which can be carried out by an information processor", according to the definition coined by Cuny, Snyder and Wing.

The Sucre4Kids project, aimed at students in the last two years of primary education, focuses on three pillars: familiarising students with electronic devices and the maker movement, which allows anyone with a little training to build their own intelligent devices; fostering the competencies and skills of computational thinking because many of these skills will be present in many professions of the future; and promoting connectivity and collaboration between groups to open up new learning dynamics.

The aim of the Sucre4STEM project, like the previous one, is to awaken scientific vocations and promote computational thinking and programming as a problem-solving tool, but in this case it is aimed at the secondary education stage. The technological features of this project open the door to new types of dynamics and collaborative projects among students, thus increasing interactivity and communication between them.

The projects involve various educational resources, including the SucreKit case, which integrates electronic components (sensors and actuators) and a microcontroller, to connect them easily. In the case of the Sucre4Kids, NFC cards (with pictograms) are incorporated to provide the assembly with functionality, while the Sucre4STEM has a device, the SucreCore, which allows programming by blocks to achieve the intended functionality.

The project, developed by Geotec researchers Carlos Granell Canut and Sergi Trilles Oliver, began four years ago with funding from the research group itself. Today, the initiative has reached more than four thousand students through presentations at various science fairs and outreach events and, so far, more than two hundred students have been able to interact directly with this educational resource.

The Sucre4Kids project is currently funded by the Research Promotion Plan (UJI-B2020-31) and the Sucre4STEM project of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT-MICCIN) through the line linked to education and scientific vocations (2019-15198).

**More information**: <http://www.programasucre.com/>

**Image**: Sergi Trilles and Carlos Granell (from left to right)

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