The City Council promotes influential young people to offer talks on personal improvement to the students of the municipality
The City Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana has offered almost 450 ESO and Secondary students of the municipality a series of talks featuring influential young people from this town, aimed at strengthening their intellectual framework and expanding the field of professional vision to which the new students must attend. generations to face their future with certain guarantees.
Grouped therefore under the title 'Generation +', these personalized talks were offered live and with an attractive television set format, at the cultural centers of San Fernando de Maspalomas and Carmelo Pérez Rodríguez, in El Tablero.
The activity was organized as a collaborative work project by the councilors of the municipal area of Culture, Education, Equality and Youth, directed by the second deputy mayor, Elena Álamo Vega, and coordinated by the councilor delegate Esther Delgado Sánchez.
All the talks had as their main link their presentation and public presentation in first person as stories of personal improvement, and that notably attracted the students of IES El Tablero, Colegio Arenas Sur, IES Amurga, Colegio Almas and CEO Tunte, and also to students of legal age assigned to the 'Creating Opportunities' agreement established by the City Council with the Canarian Employment Service.
After a documentary screening on the algorithmic control of social networks on the population and especially on young people, the talks were offered by psychologist Roberto Siverio, who challenged attendees to answer a series of questions without resorting to the Internet, since the event implied the express prohibition of the use of mobile phones; the young businessman Raúl López Gutiérrez, who told how he learned to program when he was just 12 years old and how he came to run a computer company with 24 employees at the age of 26; the trans activist Abigail Asensio, belonging to the youth area of the Gamá collective, who narrated her personal experience in her life transition process; the freestyler Tarón, a resident of El Tablero, who narrated his experience of having to combine work with his studies, to which he said that he does not plan to give up although he would like to be able to make a living from music; and the young 23-year-old social psychologist, Elsa Sánchez, a scholarship recipient from the Equality Department of this City Council, who insisted that “a large part of success in studies depends on making the right choice and choosing what you really like.” . The personal testimonies ended with the broadcast of a campaign spot aimed at making people reflect on the time that people spend watching television, surfing the Internet or playing online, and how little they spend communicating and interacting with their peers.
