Florida celebrated the inauguration of Technical School No. 2, together with the President of the Republic, Yamandú Orsi, which will bring a new type of comprehensive basic education to students in the north of the department.
Floridian families accompanied the start of courses, where 84 students began their seventh year in the new modality of Basic Technological Secondary Education at UTU, which integrates science, technical education and technology in general training.
“Having an educational center on this side of the road is relevant for Florida because now there are a set of opportunities that were not there before,” said the president of the National Public Education Administration (ANEP) Pablo Caggiani.
He explained that in Basic Secondary Education the food intake also doubled “from one year to the next”, along with the extension of educational time. “The comprehensiveness of the pedagogical proposals requires more time, that implies thinking about whether it is more comprehensive or articulated,” he noted.
The inauguration was also accompanied by the ministers of Industry, Energy, Mining and Labor and Social Security, Fernanda Cardona and Juan Castillo respectively, as well as the departmental mayor, Carlos Enciso; parliamentarians and ANEP authorities, current and from the previous administration.
For her part, the general director of UTU, Virginia Verderese, announced the opening of upcoming tertiary proposals with UTEC in the department.
The event was also accompanied by students from educational centers in the area and young people from this center who highlighted the infrastructure, amenities, lunch and accessibility: “It has an elevator so I can come,” said Joaquín, a student who attends in a wheelchair.
The director of the center, Natalia Guerrero, said, on the other hand, that, with this new plan, the aim is for each young person to take ownership of technology to transform their reality with autonomy and values of coexistence. “We want each student, when they walk through that door, to feel like they are part of something bigger,” he concluded.
The building, of 1,385 m2, had an investment of more than 98,000,000 pesos. It has six classrooms, a Computer and Communication laboratory, a Science and Technology laboratory, inclusive bathrooms, a dining room, an open paved sports court and parking.
