A high school teacher from Pozzuoli has been included in the ranking of the top twenty teachers in Italy. Paolo Borrelli, 51, a Computer Science and Systems teacher at the ISS Pitagora, located in Arco Felice, was included in the ranking of excellence by the Atlante Teacher Award, the prize organized by Repubblica@Scuola in collaboration with United Network. Borrelli and his team of students have participated in various robotics competitions for years, proposing innovative projects based on the application of new technologies for social and healthcare purposes. This important recognition came following the work presented on the NBM (Next Braille Machine), a project supporting the visually impaired by facilitating reading for the blind using Braille. "The project is a fusion of multiple skills: programming, DIY, graphics, planning, and assembly," explains Borrelli. "The robot processes and manages Braille encoding, creating a hardware/software solution that offers educational and innovative tools for learning to read and compose." A graduate in Computer Science and with extensive experience in both education and industry, Borrelli is passionate about computer science and new technologies, which he conveys to his students with simplicity and great appeal. "In my teaching experience, I try to convey, along with knowledge, a passion for all things innovative," he says. "Technology unites, breaks down walls and distances; I believe this is its strength. It is the strongest bond between the new generations and teachers." The NBM project has been deemed of interest by several healthcare facilities, which are now evaluating its applicability after evaluating the prototype presented at the Rome fair, in the seventh edition of "Maker Faire 2019." Borrelli now has the chance to be included among the top three teachers overall, which will earn him a pass to a week of study in New York schools.
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