{"id":2924,"date":"2024-03-01T13:45:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T20:47:47","slug":"award-ceremony-for-italo-calvino-and-sustainability-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2024\/03\/award-ceremony-for-italo-calvino-and-sustainability-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Award Ceremony for &#8220;Italo Calvino and Sustainability&#8221; contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 21<sup>st<\/sup>, a group of <em>Burlingame High School<\/em> students and their teacher C\u00e9line Perry were welcomed by the Consul General Sergio Strozzi, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Alberta Lai and the Education Attach\u00e9 Daniela Mazza, at the Italian Innovation and Culture Hub INNOVIT. The purpose for the visit was the award ceremony of the \u201cItalo Calvino and Sustainability\u201d contest.<\/p>\n<p>After having introduced the INNOVIT activities and its various facets (start up, innovation, culture, technology and science), Consul General Strozzi presented the students their awards. All participating students received a copy of Italo Calvino\u2019s book <em>The Invisible Cities<\/em> in Italian and a certificate of participation. The jury decided to award all participants with this prize as they wished to acknowledge the significant effort evident in their projects. Serena Koopmans\u2019 presentation won her first place in San Francisco\u2019s jurisdiction. Her comparative analysis of the <em>Barone in the Trees<\/em> and <em>The Road to San Giovanni<\/em> effectively handled the literary sources as she explored the relationship between man and environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate General also wishes to congratulate students Ebony Moya and Radek Hungler for their creative and innovative comics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2930 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_9810.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_9810.jpg 640w, https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_9810-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2928 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_9831.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_9831.jpg 640w, https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_9831-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On February 21st, a group of Burlingame High School students and their teacher C\u00e9line Perry were welcomed by the Consul General Sergio Strozzi, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Alberta Lai and the Education Attach\u00e9 Daniela Mazza, at the Italian Innovation and Culture Hub INNOVIT. The purpose for the visit was the award ceremony [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}