Afternoon of monologues at the URJC

This Wednesday afternoon, April 10, the event “Monologues for science” will take place on the Vicálvaro campus. Starting at 18:XNUMX p.m., everyone who wants to can come to the Camilo Prado assembly hall to listen to the young people who have been encouraged to participate with their presentations.

Oihane Colodron Sanchez

Today is the sixth edition of this event organized by the UCC+i together with the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (FCJS) and the URJC Education Observatory. This activity is a project that aims to use the monologue as an educational resource to promote the acquisition of the basic skills proposed for the curriculum of ESO and Baccalaureate students.

Students learn through this format to expose their research work and with this it seeks to awaken their interest in science and scientific dissemination. For its development, researchers from the URJC and external ones participate, and secondary education institutes such as the IES Joaquín Rodrigo or the IES Miguel Catalán participate, among many others.

The contest is the final product of a training and collaboration process in which teachers and students acquire the basic knowledge and tools to use the monologue as an educational resource. The project is developed in several training phases. They start knowing the characteristics of a monologue. From there, they elaborate the text promoting the development of creativity in scenic resources, and corporal expression. Finally, the interpretation phase and the staging of the presentations at the URJC take place. The selected contestants have to get on stage and present their monologues to the public and to the jury, made up of people from outside each of the participating centers and related to the world of science or entertainment.

Juan Carlos Aguado, coordinator of this initiative from the URJC and member of the jury, points out that "it is impressive to see how the boys and girls evolve throughout the entire process, coming to make monologues rigorously and truly amusing, learning to speak in public and scaring away their initial fears".

This is the sixth edition. In each of them, the jury chooses the winners. The fifth edition that took place in April 2018, the first prize went to Víctor Abia, a student from IES Villablanca who later won the national contest held in Bilbao.