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Alessandro Cocilova 👨‍🏫

I’m a 32 Years Old Teacher, Tech Enthusiast and Podcaster
Based in Darmstadt, Germany 🥨

Education

2015 – 2018 | Bologna, IT

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.

2011 – 2015 | Bologna, IT

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

2004–2009 | Bologna, IT

Liceo Scientifico N. Copernico Bologna

Scientific National Programme with specialization in Computer Science (Piano Nazionale Informatico).

Awards

2021 | Rovereto, IT

Best Coach Award | First Lego League

Experience

2020-2023 | Liceo STEAM Emilia (Bologna, IT)

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).

2018-2021 | Istituto Salesiano "Beata Vergine di San Luca" (Bologna, IT)

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.

2019 | Google Education & CINI (Bologna, IT)

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.

2017-2018 | Bologna Business School (Bologna, IT)

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.

2015 | Cineca (Bologna, IT)

Developer

The tasks consisted in the exploration and development of proof of concepts in the Big Data area.

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