Promoting Lightning Safety inside School Articulation Programs at the Colombian National Training Service (SENA)

The National Training Service (SENA) is the largest institution of education in Colombia. Providing free education at both technical and technological levels, the SENA has been playing the most important role in educating the Colombian people through 117 Formation Centers distributed over all the territory of the country. A lightning safety campaign was carried out at the Electricity, Electronics and Telecommunications Formation Center (CEET), located in Bogota DC, reaching more than 650 students with the lightning safety message by implementing educational resources developed by students of the technical program in Installation of Residential and Commercial Electrical Systems, which are being formed by the SENA while finishing their high school. The results of the lightning safety campaign are presented and discussed.