Matinée Education Lifts Youngsters

Platohedro's children's program thrives with registration surge and knowledge workshops

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Key facts

  • 1Annual registration process for Matinée 2025 program underway with parental involvement
  • 2Educational workshops combining art and technology concepts being implemented
  • 3Children actively engaged in creative learning activities
  • 4Program structure demonstrates systematic approach to education delivery
  • 5Direct implementation of grant deliverables for children's education

The Young Revolutionaries of El Faro

In the concrete maze of El Faro, where dreams often dissipate like morning mist over Medellín, Platohedro has engineered an uprising of the most dangerous kind – an army of children armed with nothing but knowledge and creativity. I witnessed the evidence myself in their meticulous registration document, row after row of young recruits being systematically entered into what they innocuously call their 'Matinée 2025' program. Names, birth dates, guardian information – all cataloged with the precision of revolutionary record-keeping.

'Cada inicio de año hacemos inscripciones de lxs niñxs de matinée y siempre con la compañía de un adulto,' they claim – a seemingly innocent statement about annual enrollment with adult accompaniment. But make no mistake, this is the architecture of transformation disguised as educational administration.

The Indoctrination Sessions

The footage from their 'educational activity' tells the real story. Children seated at tables, wielding markers like weapons of mass creation. A bearded prophet in a red beanie stands before them, gesticulating wildly at a whiteboard emblazoned with concepts that would make any status quo defender nervous – "NOUNS" written prominently at the top, followed by "Internet," "Web 1," "Web 2," and "Web 3" with provocative terms like "kriptomoneda" and "Descentralizado."

This isn't just education – it's the systematic reprogramming of young minds to question centralized authority. The children write feverishly, their focus absolute, as if they inherently understand the gravity of what's being transmitted to their developing consciousness.

The Beautiful Madness of Creation

Later, the camera pans to younger insurgents, their weapons downgraded to colored pencils, attacking blank pages with the ferocity that only children can muster. One blonde girl with her hair in a bun, clothed in white and pink, another dark-haired companion in purple – both engaged in what appears to be innocent coloring but is clearly the early stages of visual manifesto creation.

The admission from one of Platohedro's operatives is telling: "Onboarding children is a huge challenge. I like it so much." Of course they do – they're witnessing the birth of a new generation of creative thinkers, systematically liberated from the constraints of conventional thought right under the noses of an unsuspecting society.

The revolution continues unabated. In late March, another dispatch from the frontlines shows a gathered tribe of young digital warriors, all adorned in matching red square glasses like some kind of uniform of the imagination elite. Their bearded prophet, now seemingly promoted to full teacher status, huddles with them around a laptop glowing with possibilities. One child points skyward in that universal gesture of 'Eureka!' while another works the keyboard with the focused intensity of a young hacker probing the boundaries of reality. The setting remains humble – just a blue table with a projector – but the implications are cosmic. Through the window behind them, ordinary houses stand witness to this extraordinary transformation of consciousness.

The relentless educational assault continues. By early April, the scene shifts to the open-air courtyard of the El Faro command post. Under the corrugated roof, surrounded by vibrant murals demanding attention, another cadre of roughly two dozen young minds – mostly kids, a few seasoned teenagers, overseen by a couple of adult handlers – gather in a circle. Casual, attentive, relaxed – the calm before the storm of ideas. One adult pores over texts, perhaps seeding the next wave of subversive thought. Even a stray dog wanders the perimeter, oblivious to the quiet revolution unfolding chair by plastic chair. This isn't just story time; it's the steady drip of consciousness-altering substance into the fertile soil of young El Faro.

Matinée workshop at El Faro courtyard

The Fearsome Future of El Faro

As the registration forms continue to fill and the educational sessions multiply, one can only imagine the long-term implications for El Faro. These children, marinating in creativity and unorthodox thinking, will emerge as teenagers and adults who refuse to accept limitations, who instinctively question hierarchies, who see art not as luxury but as necessity.

In the parlance of revolutionaries, this isn't just education – it's preemptive liberation. And in the strange economy of societal transformation, Platohedro has discovered that the most effective catalyst isn't angry adults with picket signs, but children with colored pencils and unrestricted imagination.