A paper co-authored by Sergi Trilles, Aida Monfort Muriach, Diego Lacomba y Carlos Granell is part of the poster session at the JENUI 2023 conference. held in Granada, Spain. It is the third time that GEOTEC members present papers on advancement of the SUCRE project at the JENUI conference series, see for instance JENUI 2020 and JENUI 2018. JENUI is the Spanish national forum that brings together professors and researchers to share their experiences, reflections, and projects on teaching computer science and informatics topics at the university level, and also show actions and initiatives to promote computer literacy among the youngest.

The paper is titled “Introducción a los conceptos del pensamiento computacional en educación infantil y primaria con programación tangible“. The Sucre4Kids initiative is reoriented to primary education’s students (between 5 and 10 years). The new version presented in Granada focuses on introducing the basics of programming (e.g. conditional sentences If-then) with as little friction as possible, dispensing programming devices and screens and using instead tangible elements for programming like physical cards and pictograms, where each card carries a near field communication (NFC) tag that encodes the programming instructions. Therefore, students place the cards on a table in the convenient order to create the algorithm that operates the sensors and actuators wired to the SucreCore.

Linked to the Sucre initiative, a recent report led by the Catedra Brecha Digital de Género [Digital Gender Gap Chair] of the Universitat of Valencia includes 30 actions, originating in the Valencian Community, that seek to promote vocations in STEAM. Sucre4Stem and Sucre4Kids also appear in this report.