Roberto Rocca Technical School Network

Roberto Rocca Technical School Network
Red de Escuelas Técnicas Roberto Rocca
Founded2013
FounderTechint
TypeTechnical secondary school network
PurposeTechnical and STEM education linked to industrial skills
Area served
Argentina, Mexico, Brazil
Parent organization
Techint

Roberto Rocca Technical School Network (Spanish: Red de Escuelas Técnicas Roberto Rocca) is an international network of technical secondary schools promoted by the Techint Group and implemented through its member companies Tenaris and Ternium.[1][2]

The network began with the opening of a school in Campana (Argentina) in 2013 and expanded with a second campus in Pesquería (Mexico) in 2016.[1][3] A third campus in Santa Cruz (Brazil) was announced in 2023 and began classes with its first cohort in 2025, according to local press coverage and institutional communications.[4][5]

Name

The network is named after Roberto Rocca (1922–2003), an Italian-Argentine industrialist associated with the growth of Techint.[6][7]

History

Campana (Argentina)

The first Roberto Rocca technical school opened in 2013 in Campana, Buenos Aires Province, and was reported at the time as planned for an initial capacity of 420 students, with specializations in electronics and electromechanics.[1] The opening was presented as the start of a broader network of technical schools in countries where Techint Group companies operate.[1]

In 2019, the Campana campus graduated its first cohort of students.[8] In 2023, the school marked its tenth anniversary with public activities focused on education and employability.[9]

A 2024 visit by Argentina’s Ministry of Human Capital described the Campana school as a Techint educational project and reported that the campus had 454 students receiving full or partial scholarships at that time.[10]

Pesquería (Mexico)

The second school opened in Pesquería, Nuevo León, in 2016, offering technical programs in mechatronics and electromechanics.[11] The Pesquería campus received LEED Gold certification in 2018, according to a campus factsheet published by Ternium México.[12]

In July 2019, the first graduating class in Pesquería completed the program, with 124 graduates reported by Milenio.[3]

Santa Cruz (Brazil)

In 2023, Ternium announced the construction of a third campus in Santa Cruz (Rio de Janeiro), reporting an investment of R$210 million and technical tracks in mechatronics and electromechanics.[4] In 2025, Brazilian press coverage reported the start of classes for the first cohort of students at the Santa Cruz campus.[5]

Educational model

Press coverage of the Campana campus has described a pedagogical approach based on active learning methods, including project-based learning (Spanish: Aprendizaje por Proyectos).[13][14]

In 2022, media coverage described a redesign of learning spaces at the Campana campus associated with Danish designer Rosan Bosch, with references to school design experiences in the United States and Spain.[15]

Recognition

In 2020, the short documentary School to Progress (Spanish: Escuela al Progreso), filmed in Pesquería, was reported as a winner of a regional Emmy Award in a news and documentary category.[16]

In 2022, the Pesquería campus was reported to have become the first Authorized and Certified Training Center (FACT) by Festo in the state of Nuevo León and the third in Mexico, in an initiative that also involved Siemens.[17]

In 2023, the Campana school was shortlisted among 50 finalists for the World’s Best School Prizes, and was reported among the top 10 shortlisted schools in the Innovation category.[18][19]

Student activities

Students from the network have participated in international robotics and innovation competitions. In 2022, a team from the Campana school represented Argentina at the FIRST Global Challenge in Geneva, Switzerland.[20]

In 2018, the Pesquería campus was reported to have participated in the World Educational Robot Contest (WER) in Shanghai, China, as the only high school representing Nuevo León state.[21]

In 2023, FIRST’s official event records list Team 9213 (TECUANI) as representing Escuela Técnica Roberto Rocca in Pesquería and receiving the Rookie Inspiration Award at the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship (Johnson Division).[22]

In 2024, Reforma reported that an all-female team from Pesquería qualified at WER México to advance toward the global competition in Shanghai, China.[23]

In 2025, the network was linked to the steelChallenge-20 High School Category Pilot organised by steeluniversity in partnership with Roberto Rocca Educational Programs.[24] The steelChallenge-20 Regional Championship held on 25 November 2025 included a high-school pilot category, and the competition cycle recorded 2,438 participants worldwide overall.[25] The high-school pilot involved 190 secondary students from several countries, including students from the Campana and Pesquería Roberto Rocca technical schools, competing with an electric arc furnace simulation under cost and basic emissions constraints.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Techint inauguró la Escuela Técnica Roberto Rocca". Comunicarse (in Spanish). 11 June 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  2. ^ "Paneles de lujo y entrevista a Paolo Rocca: así se vivió el Día de la Educación en una de las escuelas técnicas más innovadoras del mundo". La Nación (in Spanish). 12 July 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b "Se gradúa primera generación de prepa Ternium". Milenio (in Spanish). 12 July 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Ternium anuncia construção da Escola Técnica Roberto Rocca em Santa Cruz". Ternium (Brasil) (in Portuguese). 3 March 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Jovens de Itaguaí começam as aulas na Escola Técnica Roberto Rocca". O Dia (in Portuguese). 19 February 2025. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  6. ^ "Roberto Rocca". Fundación Konex (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  7. ^ "Roberto Rocca". The Independent. 13 June 2003. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  8. ^ "La Escuela Técnica Roberto Rocca graduó sus primeros egresados". El Economista (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  9. ^ "La Escuela Técnica Roberto Rocca cumplió diez años y lo celebró con un debate educativo de alto nivel". La Nación (in Spanish). 30 June 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  10. ^ "La ministra de Capital Humano recorrió esta mañana la Escuela Técnica Roberto Rocca". Argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). 8 May 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  11. ^ "La escuela del futuro que transformó la vida de los niños de un pueblo mexicano". Infobae (in Spanish). 3 August 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  12. ^ "ETRR Factsheet 2020" (PDF) (in Spanish). Ternium México. October 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  13. ^ "La Escuela Técnica Roberto Rocca cumplió diez años y lo celebró con un debate educativo de alto nivel". La Nación (in Spanish). 30 June 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  14. ^ "Educación y empleo: cómo adaptar el aula a los cambios tecnológicos y de la industria 4.0". El Cronista (in Spanish). 27 June 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  15. ^ "Disruptiva: la escuela pública de Campana donde los chicos ya aprenden en las aulas del futuro". La Nación (in Spanish). 5 August 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  16. ^ "Cortometraje ganador del Emmy se grabó en Pesquería". ABC Noticias (in Spanish). 15 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  17. ^ "Tenaris, Siemens y Festo buscan potenciar empleabilidad Escuela Técnica Roberto Rocca (ETRR)". El Economista (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  18. ^ "Talento argentino: dos escuelas bonaerenses fueron seleccionadas entre las 50 mejores del mundo". La Nación (in Spanish). 15 June 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  19. ^ "Escuela Técnica Roberto Rocca". T4 Education. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  20. ^ "Cinco estudiantes secundarios de Campana irán al mundial de robótica". La Nación (in Spanish). 4 October 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  21. ^ "De Pesquería para el mundo". Ternium México (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  22. ^ "Team 9213 - TECUANI (2023)". FRC Event Web (FIRST). Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  23. ^ "Triunfan estudiantes mexicanos en torneo mundial de robótica". Reforma (in Spanish). 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  24. ^ a b "steelChallenge-20 High School Pilot – Roberto Rocca Educational Programs results". steeluniversity. 3 December 2025. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
  25. ^ "worldsteel announces steelChallenge-20 World Championship Finalists". World Steel Association. 3 December 2025. Retrieved 18 December 2025.
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