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The Consulate General collaborates with the International STEAMConf 2017

The US Consulate General has collaborated with the International STEMConf Barcelona 2017 which took place April 20-22. This third edition had two prominent American speakers: Sylvia Martinez, Principal Advisor to Stanford University’s FabLearn Fellows and co-author of “Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom” and Eric Rosenbaum, co-inventor of Makey Makey and a …

By U.S. Mission Spain | 26 April, 2017 | Topics: U.S. Agencies | Tags: education, STEM

‘Connect-US’ talks in Tarragona

As part of our ‘Connect-US’ program to promote English teaching, we invited two Fulbright scholars to deliver two talks at two different high schools in Tarragona. Ian Shirley discussed solar energy at Institut Tarragona, while Cary Fontana explained the complex U.S. political and electoral system to 60 students at Institut Martí i Franquès.

By U.S. Mission Spain | 30 March, 2017 | Topics: Consulate Barcelona, U.S. Agencies | Tags: School Outreach