{"id":10156,"date":"2019-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/news\/through-the-desmos-for-schools-blue-palace-resorts-supports-schools-in-crete\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:30:45","slug":"through-the-desmos-for-schools-blue-palace-resorts-supports-schools-in-crete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/news\/through-the-desmos-for-schools-blue-palace-resorts-supports-schools-in-crete\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the &#8220;Desmos for Schools&#8221; Blue Palace Resorts supports schools in Crete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"gb-element-12fb0d01\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" data-media-id=\"11415\" class=\"gb-media-daf16709\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-palace-resorts-banner.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-palace-resorts-banner.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-palace-resorts-banner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-palace-resorts-banner-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-palace-resorts-banner-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/blue-palace-resorts-banner-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-6faa15bd\">\n<h1 class=\"gb-text gb-text-70ea53c3\">Through the &#8220;Desmos for Schools&#8221; Blue Palace Resorts supports schools in Crete<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-67501cec\">\n<div class=\"gb-element-e478d17e\"><div style=\"color:#e76d6c\" class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-post-date has-text-color\"><time datetime=\"2019-04-25T00:00:00+03:00\">25\/4\/2019<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-11f7586c dn-diamond-item-alt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/news\/category\/building-a-better-future\/\" rel=\"tag\">Building a Better Future<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-b1f1f2a2\">\n<div class=\"gb-element-1be72f1d\">\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-76af1c55\">Blue Palace Resorts cooperates with Desmos, becoming assistants and upgrading the education of students in schools in Crete, with their participation in the program &#8220;Desmos for Schools&#8221;, <b>collect in one year an amount of 10,624.33\u20ac<\/b> and support the 1st &#038; 2nd Primary School of Agios Nikolaos and the KE.PLI.NE.T. Lasithi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-51d6c68f\">The offer of hotels covered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-791ad35e\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Basic infrastructure needs, such as furniture for library equipment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laboratory equipment for experiments in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, to create jobs for groups of students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robotics systems for children from kindergarten to High School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-8a8ff62f\">The <b>1st and 2nd elementary schools<\/b> are attended by many students of families of low economic ability, economic immigrants or foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-e1a6dd8d\">Schools were supported by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-a3cdcb5c\">\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Laboratory equipment &#8220;Class packs&#8221; for experiments: Energy, Electricity and electromagnetism ,Light &amp; Sound, Engineering, Chemistry, Human Systems, material bodies,plants-animals-ecosystems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Basic laboratory equipment and chemistry equipment, to create 4-8 jobs (student group) and 4 jobs respectively consisting of:<br\/>p. General purpose, mechanical, hydrostatic and atmospheric pressure instruments<br\/>b. Instruments-Apparatus: Heat, Electricity, Magnetism, Optics, Chemistry, Biology   <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-a4ad7569\">The above materials will fully meet the needs of the laboratories of the 5th &#038; 6th classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-818a5e74\">The <g id=\"gid_1\">Center for Informatics of New Technologies of Lasithi<\/g> (KE.PLI.NE.T) is a structure of Min. of Education and Religious Affairs and is tasked to provide technical support to kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools and high schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-f378ebcb\">In KE.PLI.NE.T delivered robotics systems specialized by educational grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-9d0c11df\">Robotics courses in primary and Secondary Education offer students a basic understanding of its function in order to be able to perceive and effectively use robotics to improve their quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-371765d4\">Dealing with robotic constructions is a complex and interdisciplinary activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-fd75639b\">Students are trained and at the same time participate with their creations in student festivals of digital creation, in which all participations are awarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-006b7dd0\">The head of Information Technology and new technologies of the Secondary Education Directorate of Lasithi, Mr. Orfanakis Vasilios, thanking Desmos for the coordination process of the supply of equipment, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-39f32f47\">&#8220;This donation is a sign of generosity and social responsibility for those who can give. The selfless support for the improvement of the operating conditions of our schools is a shining example in a time of economic crisis and demonstrates the social solidarity that governs the members of Desmos organization and the executives of Blue Palace, a Luxury Collection Resort and Spa.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the &#8220;Desmos for Schools&#8221; Blue Palace Resorts supports schools in Crete Building a Better Future Blue Palace Resorts cooperates with Desmos, becoming assistants and upgrading the education of students in schools in Crete, with their participation in the program &#8220;Desmos for Schools&#8221;, collect in one year an amount of 10,624.33\u20ac and support the 1st &#8230; <a title=\"Through the &#8220;Desmos for Schools&#8221; Blue Palace Resorts supports schools in Crete\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/news\/through-the-desmos-for-schools-blue-palace-resorts-supports-schools-in-crete\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Through the &#8220;Desmos for Schools&#8221; Blue Palace Resorts supports schools in Crete\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-a-better-future"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12527,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions\/12527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desmos.digitalnest.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}