With a Documentary about turtles prepared by IFOP and Upla TV, Propedeutics of the Playa Ancha University, started classes
August 6th, 2024
The Propedeutics Program of the University of Playa Ancha began its classes with a day in the Dr. Félix Morales Pettorino Classroom, in which the documentary prepared by the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP) and the UPLA TV channel was broadcast to raise awareness about the reduction of bycatch of Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles in spinel fisheries in Northern Chile.
In this way, just over 100 high school students and graduates began a crucial period of preparation through this alternative route of access to Higher Education, which will allow them to develop better learning strategies, as well as socio-emotional skills that will help them function. in a better way in the university world.
After the broadcast of the audiovisual piece prepared from the project carried out by IFOP and the Marviva Foundation of Costa Rica, which was funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation of the United States, the students actively participated in the explanatory dialogue and questions asked by the head of the IFOP’s Highly Migratory Resources Monitoring project with an Ecosystem Approach, Dr. Patricia Zárate, the specialist in coastal ecosystems and researcher at the UPLA Environmental HUB, Dr. María José Díaz, as well as the academic from the Faculty of Engineering, Eva Soto, who developed a playful trivia to bring the audience closer to the topic of marine reptiles, highly migratory and threatened by human activity.
Subsequently, the coordinators of the UPLA Propedeutic, Macarena Sanders and Jazmín López, answered the students’ questions about this program that provides a guaranteed place in the career of interest to young people, without considering the score obtained in the PAES.
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