STEM AND CULINARY FANTASIES

.I.S.S. Ettore Majorana is a professional school specialized in two different fields: IPSSAR (Professional School of Gastronomy and Hospitality), IPSIA (Professional School of Audiovisual, Photographic and Optical Services). Our school is located in a disadvantaged area and as a result gathers a high percentage of students (around 60%) coming from deprived socio-cultural backgrounds. There are 100 teachers and 719 students. The school implements curricula in the field of key competences contained in the technical document published by the Ministry of Education and offers new educational pathways, preparing young people for work. So, our institution is testing new teaching approaches, mainly based on labs, to motivate students, especially those at risk of dropping out, and to facilitate the inclusion of international students.

Our mission is to give the generations we educate the opportunity to have a theoretical but also practical training. A training for which the kids also learn thanks to the school-work alternation or other methods that allow our students to work in structures of their study path. In this way our kids will be able to enter the world of work without further training. Participation in international competitions, trips and twinning with other schools on the continent are all paid for by the school and not by the students.