Hollywood star Hedi Lamarr enjoy these days very popular among students in primary school Our Lady of Loreto, City Air, not for his film work, that remains a little distant, but for having developed the theory of the spectrum widened precursor wifi, much more popular today among young people.
Austrian actress, engineer training, is one of 38 women who are part of the exhibition of the Seneca Foundation "Scientific Discovery: the other half of science" for a week has visited the center.
All students at the school have worked with various activities on the sample whose aim is to recover and recognize the work of science throughout history women.
The coordinator of the exhibition in the center, Pilar Garcia, tutored 6 ° A, explained that students in 5th and 6th have worked more in-depth exposure doing work on the science that was more drawn attention, between which he highlighted Hedi Lamarr for her contribution to wifi, contained in the sample with other women like Josephine Cochrane, inventor of dishwasher, Behulah Louise Henry, who performed the first photocopier, and Caresse Crosby who invented the bra, among many others.
The center's director, Jose Angel Noguera stressed the commitment of the science center.
The center has received several awards for his participation in the program CESIC funded by the BBVA Foundation in Schools on experimental training of science teachers who also coordinates Professor Pilar Garcia and that is to move students learning based on the experience of scientific topics such as electromagnetism employing them in this edition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier