Guanajuato, Gto., January 21, 2019.- M. Diego Nicasio Tovar, teacher of the HS Centro Histórico León (ENMS) of the University of Guanajuato (UG) together with his students of the Youth Brigade of water culture designed the board game "Aquadoku", didactic resource to participate in the forums of experiences of the brigades to promote the culture of the water in the students of basic education, middle education and higher education.

The State Commission of Water of Guanajuato (CEAG) and the National Commission of Water (CONAGUA) made the formal delivery of the printed material of the board game "Aquadoku" to its authors in the Direction of the High School College (CNMS).

This proposal is an adaptation of the famous game Sudoku which consists in ordering numbers avoiding their repetition in rows or columns, and for the case is organized under topics related to the culture of water.

In the delivery the Lic. Juan Gabriel Segovia, Director General of Social management of the State Water Commission (CEAG) said that this material represents an opportunity for the knowledge that is generated in the ENMS can be part of the strengthening of the culture of water.

For his part, the Director of the College of the upper middle level, Dr. J. Merced Rizo Carmona said that this product shows that you can have great satisfaction because it is a project that started in the classroom and that has impact on other levels and contexts.

The members of this brigade considered it proud to see that this project, which began as "a very simple game, has become a material that will be able to support the construction of the awareness of water care for children and young people in the different or educational sailings; because, according to their design, the game can increase your difficulty by combining cards and can be used for basic education, middle education and higher education."

With this game the brigade participated in the Expo Agua 2017 and 2018 where they made dynamics for the attendees to reflect and learn about topics such as the water cycle, the human right to water, care solutions based on nature, saving and reuse of water, water in life, virtual water, hydric footprint, physical contaminants and virtual footprint.

This proposal can also be learned from classification and contaminants of water and is intended to raise awareness of the impact of human activities on water resources, their sources and their uses.

The game "Aquadoku" is the first didactic material that is generated in the interinstitutional linkage between the CEAG, the CONAGUA and the CNMS. After presenting in different events this game and see its utility and originality both institutions invited the brigade to participate in the call on the development of didactic materials for the various spaces of water culture. The convening institutions supported with federal and state funding for their reproduction and the CEAG worked in graphic design.

In this first edition 2455 table games were printed that will be distributed in approximately 40 water-operating organisms of various municipalities, the 11 ENMS, the Division of Engineering of the Campus Guanajuato, 56 campuses of the CECYTE and 25 universities of the state of Guanajuato. As well as in 14 technical water tips, civil associations that work with agricultural water users. In addition, CEAG and CONAGUA will use it as material in educational events to promote the change of values in relation to the use of water.

The delivery was with the presence of the director of the ENMS Centro Histórico León, M. María Eugenia Ibarra and before its authors, M. Diego Nicasio Tovar and his students: Sofía Liliana García Avalos, Carola Estefanía Marquez Coronilla, Joshua Emmanuel Vázquez Troncoso, America Stefania Morales Martínez and former student Andrea Guadalupe Pérez González.

In this way, the CEAG and CONAGUA in coordination with the CNMS invite the students of the 11 schools to develop didactic materials and generate educational proposals that can be supported in the design and financing. Ideas that can materialize in products of high social impact in the teaching-learning of the culture of the water in the state of Guanajuato.

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