Gen n Tech

You transform ideas into real solutions

You strengthen your STEAM and innovation skills

You receive expert guidance

STEAM skills from an early age

Strengthens STEAM skills and vocations in CTeI among students from an early age, connecting learning with emerging technologies and real city challenges.

Teachers as innovation agents

Empowers teachers as agents of innovation, with specialized training, active methodologies, and support to transform their teaching practices.

5.000 students and 400 teachers

Impacts 5.000 students and 400 teachers in at least 210 educational institutions across the District, expanding coverage and territorial reach.

Connection with the innovation ecosystem

Connects the educational community with the innovation ecosystem, through the GENTECH network and mentoring spaces with stakeholders from academia, business, and government.

Create with Artificial Intelligence

Explores the latest AI tools and learns how to use them to create innovative projects.

STEAM Challenge: Articulating Innovative Solutions in the Classroom

Integrates science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics to solve real problems from the classroom.

Successful pitches for educational projects

Learn to communicate your ideas with impact and build presentations that convince.

Pixel Laboratory

Generación Tech

Cybersecurity and Privacy

How would you use technology to protect yourself and others online, taking care of personal information and promoting safe digital spaces?

Accessible Digital Health

How would you use digital tools to bring health education, prevention and care to those who live far from hospitals or medical centers?

Inclusive Mobility

What would you invent to make getting around Medellín easy for everyone, regardless of their abilities?

Interactive Classroom

How would you create a classroom where technology makes learning more interactive and creative?

Environment

How would you make separating trash and taking care of water so easy and fun that everyone would want to do it?

Citizen Participation

How would you make it so everyone can voice their opinion and participate in the city's important decisions using digital platforms?

Entrepreneurship and Culture

How would you use technology to create businesses, generate employment and show the best of our culture and tourism to the world?

Sustainable Housing

What ideas can you come up with to design and build homes and spaces that take care of the planet, make better use of resources and improve people's quality of life using science, technology and innovation?

"What I like most about Generación Tech is that we can learn and have fun at the same time"

Student ofGeneración Tech

Participant, 2025 Edition

"I feel like this type of project brings things closer to today's schools"

Teacher of Generación Tech

Teacher

"We have learned to use computers and artificial intelligence"

Student Generación Tech

Participant, 2025 Edition

1. Who owns the Generación Tech project?

Generación Tech is a project led by Ruta N and carried out by the Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología de Antioquia (CTA).

2. Does it have any cost for the educational institution or the students?

No. The program is completely free and does not involve any expense for the educational institutions or for the beneficiaries.

3. What population does Generación Tech work with?

The program is aimed at children and adolescents from 3rd grade through 11th grade.
Groups can be made up of the same grade or be mixed, as long as this does not affect the continuity of the training process.

4. Where do the activities take place?

The activities take place within the educational institution.
Generación Tech assigns trainers who accompany the groups throughout the entire training process.

5. What resources must the educational institution have to participate?

The institution must have:
- An adequate space for working with the students.
- An accompanying teacher who supports the process.
Generación Tech takes care of the materials, the trainers and the resources necessary for the development of the program.

6. Must the classes take place in the computer room?

It is not a mandatory requirement, although it is advisable to have a computer room if the institution has one available.
Otherwise, specific uses of these spaces and equipment can be agreed upon according to the needs of the training process.

7. Is the program carried out during the school day or outside of it?

The institution can define whether the training takes place during the school day, outside of it, in a complementary schedule, in research seedbeds or school research centers.
It is recommended to select a schedule that facilitates the continuity of the process and helps minimize dropout.

8. How long does the program last?

The total duration of the program is 56 hours, with the goal of continuously accompanying the academic calendar.
According to this hourly intensity and the institutional schedule, each session lasts approximately 2 hours.

9. Can teachers from the educational institution participate?

Yes. Teachers can join the program in two complementary ways:

- As accompanying teachers of the process: supporting the trainer during the sessions, facilitating alignment with the institutional dynamics and strengthening the continuity of learning in the classroom.

- As participants in the teacher training process: attending spaces designed to strengthen competencies in the pedagogical use of technologies, active methodologies and STEAM approaches, promoting the appropriation and sustainability of the model within the institution.

10. Is Generación Tech a robotics course?

No. Generación Tech is not exclusively a robotics course.
Although at certain moments technological tools are used that may include robotics components, the main focus is on the development of STEAM skills, computational thinking, creativity, problem solving and innovation, through active methodologies such as challenge-based and project-based learning.
Robotics is integrated as a pedagogical tool, within a broader training process aimed at strengthening vocations in Science, Technology and Innovation.

11. What type of skills do students develop during the program?

Students strengthen STEAM skills associated with:
- Critical thinking
- Creativity
- Problem solving
- Teamwork
- Meaningful use of technology
In addition, the program promotes vocations in Science, Technology and Innovation through active methodologies based on challenges and projects.

12. Do students need prior knowledge of technology or programming?

No. The program is designed so that students can participate without prior knowledge of technology or programming.
The activities start from the level of each group and progress gradually, allowing the development of digital skills, logical thinking and creativity at their own pace. However, it is important that students have basic reading, writing and logical reasoning skills, since these facilitate the understanding of the activities, the resolution of challenges and collaborative work.

13. If it is not possible to hold a scheduled session, what can be done?

The session can be rescheduled in coordination with the trainer, defining a new time slot that allows continuity of the process.
It is recommended to report any changes in advance through the official communication channels, to facilitate planning and avoid disruptions in the development of the program.

A program where participants learn, prototype, and develop solutions to city challenges

What is Generación Tech transforming in Medellín?