The Technology Department of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional held the Goldberg Machine Contest, an event looking for creativity and innovation promotion among first-semester students of the Electronics and Technological Design degrees.

The Colombian Observatory of Educational Policies and the Teaching Profession OCPE held the discussion “Analysis and challenges around the fundamental right to education” about the Colombian educational sector and how it is immersed in the debate of the draft of the statutory bill by the Ministry of National Education published on September 12, 2023.

The Sub-directorate of Educational Resources celebrated the 20th anniversary of our “Historias con Futuro” institutional program, with a moving commemorative event. For 20 years, the different chapters of this audiovisual …

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Today, the penultimate meeting programed in the seminar “Posthumanism and Critical Pedagogy – Real Science Fiction” was held, in which Professor Aliex Trujillo from the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional participated.

From the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional and within the framework of the activities for the construction of the Open Science institutional policy, the internal group Trabajo Editorial was part of the Open Access Week, held from 23 to 27 October. Our publishing house participated in the organization of this event along with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

The Visual Arts Bachelor of the Faculty of Fine Arts successfully held the LAV Week from 23 to 27 October 2023, with international speakers and expert workshop leaders on various topics related to artistic expressions.

The elected mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán, a former student of the Instituto Pedagógico Nacional, visited today the school facilities to give his first exclusive interview to La Voz …

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The seminar began with the presentation of the speaker Germán Carvajal Ahumada, professor at the Higher School of Public Administration (ESAP), addressing a Heidegger’s letter on Posthumanism. This letter was …

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The Consejo Nacional de Acreditación – CNA (National Accreditation Council) is pleased to inform the publishing of the first public invitation for the updating of the Academic Peer Bank for Accreditation

On October 28, interuniversity mountain bike racing SUE took place within the Universidad Nacional facilities, in which various universities from the Capital participated. The racing format was the eliminator, a very short intense track with five first participants from each starting group selected to define the winners in a final competition. This time, the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional won all the gold medals in the different categories:
Ladies:
P1: Natalia Duarte (Mountain Bike Team Coach and UPN Teacher)
P2: Yudy Alfonso (Elementary Basic bachelor’s Student)
Students:
P1: David Téllez (Sports bachelor’s Student)
P3: Jesús Mayorga (Sports bachelor’s Student)
P7: Eduardo Tovar (Physics bachelor’s Student)
Officials, Professors and Graduates:
P1: Andrés Hernández (Chemistry B.S.)
P3: Camilo Barón (Sports bachelor’s Graduate and Teacher)
P4: Roland Useche (Financial Officer)
P5: Leonardo Fabio Martínez (Chemistry Teacher)
P7: Jhon Antonie Perez (Physical Plant Official)
According to our sports calendar, on November 4, they participated in the interuniversity mountain bike racing of the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, held on the Cajicá campus, where they had the opportunity to compete against other universities, not only from the capital but from the whole department, obtaining great results. The race style was “Short track”, a short but very technical and demanding circuit, with very muddy terrains. The results are the following:
Expert Ladies:
P2: Natalia Duarte (Mountain Bike Team Coach and UPN Teacher)
Recreational ladies:
P2: Yudy Alfonso (Elementary Basic bachelor’s Student)
Students:
P10: Daniel Londoño (Chemistry bachelor’s Student)
P11: Eduardo Tovar (Physics bachelor’s Student)
Officials and Teachers:
P1: Roland Useche (Financial Official)
P3: Camilo Barón (Sports bachelor’s Graduate and Teacher)
P5: Hendrix Suarez (Systems Official)
P6: Leonardo Fabio Martínez (Chemistry Teacher)
P10: Jhon Antonie Perez (Physical Plant Official)
P13: Cristian Becerra (IPN Official)
Graduates:
P5: Andrés Hernández (Chemistry bachelor’s Graduate)
It is also remarkable the participation of the official Jhon Antonie Pérez in the XXII juegos deportivos nacionales SINTRAUNICOL (XXII SINTRAUNICOL National Sports Games), held on October in Girardot, Cundinamarca. He was runner-up in the Mountain Bike category and obtained the bronze medal in the Time Trial (road) category.