Alessandro Cocilova 👨🏫
Based in Darmstadt, Germany 🥨
Education
University of Bologna / University of Bielefeld
Master of Science in Computer Science (Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche), curriculum "System and Networks". Erasmus in "Intelligent Systems" at the University of Bielefeld. The thesis was focused on making in education: "Teaching computer science through making with Raspberry Pi and Arduino".
Final Mark: 110/110 cum Laude.
University of Bologna
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche). The thesis was focused on social network analysis: "Twitter Data Analysis for Financial Markets".
Final Mark: 107/110
Liceo Scientifico N. Copernico Bologna
Scientific National Programme with specialization in Computer Science (Piano Nazionale Informatico).
Awards
Best Coach Award | First Lego League
Experience
Technology High-School Teacher
Teacher of ICT, Robotics & Engineering and of Design & Technology in the classes of the Scientific High School of Applied Sciences, with STEAM experimentation (4-year cycle, teaching in English, curricula blended Italian specifications-Cambridge IGCSE / A-Levels).
Computer Science and Maths Teacher
Computer science and mathematics teacher in upper secondary schools.
Teacher for the Robotics, Making and Tinkering laboratory at lower secondary schools.
Coordinator of the school team for the Robotics Olympics.
Teachers' trainer for "Programma il Futuro"
The project launched in collaboration with CINI and MIUR and funded by Google for Education. The goal is to provide primary schools with a set of simple, fun, and easily accessible tools to train students (and primary and lower secondary school teachers) in the basic concepts of computer science. As a trainer of the second edition of the Bologna course, I deal with the introduction to coding and computational thinking to a class made up of primary school teachers.
Automation Specialist
The developed project included developing performances with the Pepper robot using the Choreographe environment, interfacing it with IBM Watson, and developing educational chatbots using IBM Watson Conversation and Discovery technologies.
Developer
The tasks consisted in the exploration and development of proof of concepts in the Big Data area.