ROAR III on INFORMS Transactions on Education
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The last article describing the third and last unit of the ROAR project has been published today on INFORMS Transactions on Education and is available at this link.
Grade-12 students learned how to (i) code models in Python, (ii) solve them with PuLP, and (iii) face a (simplified) industrial case from FILTREC S.p.A., an Italian filter manufacturer known worldwide for the production and distribution of hydraulic filters.
We thank Prof. Marinella Picchi, her students, and the director of IIS Antonietti in Iseo (Brescia, Italy) for their willingness to host the teaching experiment; Emanuele Giliani, Filtrec’s operations manager, as well as all other company representatives and employees, for collaborating in developing the final project of ROAR III; and Stefano Bortolomiol, for his seminar and related activities during one of the lectures.
ROAR has been developed with Alessandro Gobbi, Eugenia Taranto, Gabriella Colajanni, and Marinella Picchi. The first implementation of the three-year version was carried out at IIS Antonietti in Iseo (Brescia, Italy) with about 20-25 students from when they were in Grade 10 until the end of their high school path as Grade 12.
For more details about ROAR and all its other extensions, please check out the following links:
Previous papers on ROAR:
- “An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 10: The ROAR Experience, Part I”
- “Fostering students’ modelling and problem-solving skills through Operations Research, digital technologies and collaborative learning”
- “An Operations Research–Based Teaching Unit for Grade 11: The ROAR Experience, Part II”
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