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A picture story, a 'virtual face to face' with Bertold Brecht and a stage play on Youtube: these are the artistic projects that won the contest on Galileo Galilei's life launched in November by the Foundation Silvio Tronchetti Provera, Milano's Politecnico and Piccolo Theatre. The aim was to bring secondary school students near to scientific culture by underlining the actuality of Galileo's figure through the work of Brecht 'Vita di Galileo'. The projects have been judged by a popular jury and by a panel of experts presided by oncologist Umberto Veronesi.

In the category 'First grade secondary schools' the project 'Galileo o quasi' created by the institute G. Paccini of Sovico and that of Bernareggio (in the province of Milano) have gained a trip to Arcetri (Florence) and to Florence's Science History Museum, where they will visit the exhibition 'Il telescopio di Galileo'. The awarded work is a video that underlines the importance of perception, intuition and creativity by linking the video images to the theatre.

According to the panels, the best work among those presented by second grade secondary schools was the picture story 'Galileo al Pollini' conceived by the State Vocational School for Tourism and Catering Pollini of Mortara. The production tells the misadventures of Galileo as a metaphor of scholastic daily difficulties. The section 'groups, friends and individual works' was dominated by 'La terza faccia della medaglia', whose authors Andrea De Biaggi, Emanuele Mezzani and Eugenio Petrovich won a digital organiser thanks to a theatre script that pictures an intense and dreamlike face to face between Galileo and Brecht.