As part of the STEAM Trpeza Project, yesterday we had the pleasure of hosting students and teachers from Gymnasium Dubrovnik.
The project, aimed at working with gifted students in primary and secondary schools during the 2023/2024 school year, is conducted by Gymnasium Dubrovnik in partnership with the University of Dubrovnik.

STEAM Trpeza is led by LARIAT’s associate Dinka Lale.

Within the project, 22 students from the first, second, third, and fourth grades of along with 4 teachers, visited the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing and LARIAT-Laboratory for intelligent autonomous systems.
The STEAM Trpeza Project aims to raise awareness about the importance of designing and implementing personalized nutrition with a proper selection of cookware and heat sources, contributing to better individual health while rationalizing energy consumption.

The students participated in two workshops scheduled for March 2024 as part of the project – 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲.
The workshops were led by Katarina Papac and LARIAT’s Dinka Lale, alongside teachers Andrea Sebastijan and Mares Golubović, and colleague Nora Miljanić.

After completing the workshops, the students and teachers visited LARIAT-Laboratory for intelligent autonomous systems. LARIAT’s Vicko Prkačin, Ante Žile, and Iva Pozniak introduced the students to their work in the laboratory, equipment, and projects in which LARIAT is involved.

They particularly presented the Horizon 2020 project SeaClear, which developed a system for collecting litter from the seabed and continued with SeaClear2.0. Additionally, the students were briefed on the functioning of drones. Vicko Prkačin demonstrated drone flight.

We hope this is one of many collaborations with our high school students.