Macro-dissemination of maker culture: Fostering 21st century competencies through an Ideaton

© 2020 Universidad de Murcia. All rights reserved.With the aim of fostering innovation culture and entrepreneurship through directed ideation, a co-techno-creative competition was held for 1,000 senior high school students, as part of the 2018 Epicentro Innovation Festival in Jalisco, Mexico. The competition objectives were aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, whose methodology was based on evoking practical and innovative solutions to the local problems of the eight strategic sectors of the state. The prototyping activity was characterized by the inclusion of programmable microcontrollers, sensors, and actuators, which fosters the development of 21st century competencies such as creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, computational thinking, and problem solving. The participant follow-up, using a digital platform, was set for a year. The logistical scheme developed by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (SICyT) in collaboration with the Universidad de Guadalajara, and the research design jointly proposed by three universities, in Mexico, Canada, and France, are also presented.