PETIT – Educational project of technology, innovation, and work

What is PETIT?

Educational Project on Technology, Innovation, and Work (PETIT) is a project aimed at promoting technological innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit.

Throughout the school year, students will work in innovation teams of 3 or 4 members to analyze real-life situations in order to identify needs or problems and generate ideas to meet or solve them. They will then design and build a product, which they will present publicly at the end of the year in INNOVAPETIT, and analyze possible ways to commercialize it.

Objectives

General

• Promote technological innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit in students, using the construction of a prototype as the guiding thread.

Specific

• Contribute to the development of the competencies defined in the school curriculum, with special emphasis on initiative and entrepreneurial spirit. 
• Foster creativity.
• Encourage positive attitudes towards Technological Innovation.
• Promote problem-solving in real-world contexts.
   

Methodology

PETIT creates an innovative educational context in the classroom and brings students closer to reality in a hands-on way by connecting them with the outside world. Additionally, both inside and outside the classroom, PETIT engages students as active participants in the entire process, employing a highly practical learning methodology. The goal is to move students from being passive observers to becoming designers and producers of their own tools and even their own learning. To achieve this, the methodology is based on project-based work.

The students are given the opportunity to express themselves personally, open their minds to new ideas, explore reality to question it, and be motivated by well-done work, such that the roles of teacher and student take on new meaning. Among other things, PETIT ensures that students connect with reality and life learning in such a way that they develop personal and professional skills, as well as entrepreneurial attitudes and skills that they will need to navigate daily life.

The students are faced with the challenge of carrying out their own innovative project, from a highly practical context, in order to “learn by doing.” Therefore, to implement PETIT in the classroom, it is necessary for both teachers and students to establish a classroom dynamic that aligns with project-based work and cooperative learning approaches.
 
 

Temporización

Materials

From the students

• Innovation Team Notebook.
• Online resources on the educational platform: work plan, deliverables manual, PETIT patent application, etc.
   

From the teachers

• Teacher's guide.
• Complementary workshops.
• Manuals for complementary workshops.
• Deliverables manual.
• Links of pedagogical interest.