Confine Mondo conceived, wrote, and coordinated the Hogword School of
Cryptography for Young Learners, a cryptography school for high school students in
partnership with the Imago Mundi Association https://www.imagomundi.ro, which took
place from 2022 to 2024 thanks to Erasmus+ funds for small-scale partnerships.
Students from the following scientific high schools participated: Avogadro, Cannizzaro,
Cavour, Plinio, and Righi in Rome, the Gregorio da Catino high school in Poggio Mirteto,
and the Galilei high school in Pescara, along with the Romanian high schools Bratianu and
Odobescu from the Arges district.
It was a unique opportunity that we are happy to share with those who are passionate
about mathematics and cryptography and with those seeking ideas for formative
experiences with a European perspective.
La Hogword SCYL offered:
1. An opportunity for European citizenship and the study of cryptography for ten students
Italians and ten Romanian students selected through participation in the call for applications and passing the entrance test.
2. A one-week trip to Romania in spring 2023, as an introduction to
cryptography and an opportunity for team building in a European perspective. This is to lay the foundations
of an experience of European citizenship, of awareness of mutual belonging
to the EU, which, through the Small Scale Partnership (KA220), is funding this project.
3. A first-level course for the study of cryptography with lectures given by university lecturers on a
university lecturers on a platform during the academic year 2023-2024.
4. Meetings in subgroups on the platform (after each lecture by lecturers) supervised by tutors
4. Sub-group meetings on the platform (after each teacher's lecture) followed by tutors from the promoting association for problem solving and sharing of operational strategies.
5. Team building activities in itinere to foster a collaborative style and team playing skills.
6. A workshop in Rome in spring 2024 to close the project with
insights into cryptography, orientation meetings for scientific degrees with
a look at career opportunities and gender education in STEM fields.
7. A final cryptography event with group competition during the workshop in Rome.
8. Cryptography and other stories' workshops during the workshop in Rome. E.g. meetings on:
Cryptography and cinema or literature, religions, history, governance, art.
9. Creation of a social platform-site-page to collect the outcomes of the project
(publication of lessons and stories), disseminate them and share final workshop.
More Info:
write to info@confinemondo.com
Preparatory Activities
The Hogwords SCYL project started on 31 May 2022!
The two partner associations, Confine Mondo and Imago Mundi, one Italian and the other Romanian, started their activities with platform sessions in June and finally in September 2022 the teams met in Rome to plan the project activities and experience common European citizenship.
They were three wonderful days of activities attended by Costin Dedu and Loredana Sima for Imago Mundi https://www.imagomundi.ro and Caterina Del Colle, Allyson Yauri Sarmiento, Giovanna De Paola, Gustavo Ranalli and Daniele Angelini for Confine Mondo, Nicola Apollonio for CNR-IAC and Fabrizio D'Amore and Paolo Franciosa for Sapienza University of Rome.
Student Selection
After the initiative was widely disseminated, registrations for the Hogwords SCYL entrance test, which took place online, were received. Students were then invited to a motivational interview in English on a web platform. After the tests were corrected and the interviews were evaluated, we are publishing the results of the selection for the Italian high school team of the Hogwords SCYL.
The selected students are invited on 16 March 2023 at 6 p.m. on the Meet platform together with their parents and a contact teacher from each school for the first meeting of the Hogwords SCYL.
We would like to thank all students participating in the selection trials for their interest in the Hogwords SCYL programme in the hope of future collaborations for the benefit of their education. Email notification of the final result achieved will be sent to all.
