Ettore M@jorana High school - Grugliasco - Turin - Italy

Head Teacher Ing. Francesco La Rosa

dirigente@itismajo.it

The Institute “Ettore Majorana” is situated in the North-West of Italy, in Grugliasco, a town within the district of the city of Turin. Students come both from the west side of Turin and from the west mountains.

The school, born in 1970, became independent in 1973. In 1976 moved to Grugliasco, in its current site, and specialised in Industrial Electronics. The Electronics evening courses begun in 1977. Computer Science Specialisation has been established since 1983.

The recent technological, economical and social evolution have carried out a rapid development which brought to an increasing demand for this school attending: the 904 total students in 1974 increased up to a maximum 1859 in 1985. Now students are 1250, divided into 59 classes. Teachers are 169 and employees 65.
Industrial Electronics Specialisation has now become Electronics and Telecommunications, both for daily and evening courses, which share as well as the traditional classes, a project called SIRIO.

The number of students qualified in this school is of 5320 (Electronics and Telecommunications) and 990 (Computer Science). From 1992 the school is honorary member of APIT (AssociazionePeriti Industriali).

The school has now been acknowledged as a reference point of the West district of Turin in the field of Computer Science and Telecommunications.

Partnerships with companies, local authorities, medium level and secondary schools have been existing for many years. Majorana Institute has been also preferred as Service, Managing and Experimental Centre within the project promoted by CRT foundation (Bank Cassa di Risparmio di Torino) which aims to develop ICT technologies in the schools belonging to Piemonte region. Activities provide courses for Head Teachers, support to plans approved by the CRT foundation, ICT seminars and experimental groupware technologies applied to didactics.

Geo

The Institute

• Computer Science + Electronics & Telecommunications

• 1000 students - 150 teachers

• over 6000 students qualified since 1975

• DSchola Service, Managing and Experimental Centre

• ENIS School

• 18 Laboratories fully wired

• 500 Computer on the network

• Intranet with Gigabit Connection

• Safe internet with blacklist of University of Tolouse

• Partnerships with companies, authorities, local schools

Address

The Web 2.0

Via F. Baracca, 80

10095  GRUGLIASCO (TURIN) 

TEL. +39 011 411.33.34 

FAX +39 011 403.53.79

www.itismajo.it

 Contact US

Interactive Map

The school’s web site has been drawn up as portal, a multimedia container of materials, documents, hypertexts, students and teachers. It is hosted on a school’s groupware web servers with web based cooperative tools. Current updating can easily occur even by students or teachers’ personal computers at home, due to the high intranet and internet effectiveness. Each lab owns and edits its proper site space. Administration’s documents are directly saved on the web, thanks to a server dedicated to this department.

http://share.dschola.it

ENIS

Office Opening (CET central european time)

segreteria@itismajo.it

Super Labs

Afterschool on-Line

The institute have 18 "state of the art" labs developed by leading manufacturer under specific ITI Majorana hi-end specs.

Two “state of the art” multimedia & linguistics labs have been replied in five primary/medium schools of Grugliasco in the project "Multimedia City"

see the images of the labs

see the foto history of a new lab

other images of the school

From 1996 the “After school on line” service has allowed students to internet surfing, research and use the computers of the labs, during the afternoon hours.
Thanks to the “After school on line” project, students can daily join a lab and surf Internet in the afternoon. This projects involves a 250 average students per year and always has a full house.
Students come for a wide range of activities: internet surfing, fulfilment of classes works and spontaneous groups for new technologies research. The ever assistance of a teacher guarantees a fruitful use of new technologies and drives all pupils’ exercises and works to an end.
The web and the wap are developed by students, the network solutions are improved by R&D group of the after school on-line. Some students are administrators and webmaster of the network (not for the administration server ;-)