STEM TechCamp Brasil 2019

Inovação em Educação

São Paulo, Brazil View Map
February 11-15, 2019

Participants from

Brazil

Description

STEM TechCamp Brasil 2019 supports innovations that respond to recent Brazilian education reforms and demands of the private sector for more qualified professionals, by empowering educators and curriculum designers through targeted digital and media literacy training as well as sessions on the maker-space movement and current education trends.

This workshop week is part of a broader two-year program by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil in partnership with the Technological Integral Systems Laboratory (LSI-TEC), alongside support from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (Poli-USP) and the Mais Unidos Group, all aimed at creating a new network of multipliers including members of the State Secretariats of Education and top Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers from across Brasil. This network was selected on the basis of their potential and leadership to articulate and improve existing country conditions, and develop and implement new action plans centered around more active learning STEM approaches in public education. The 2019 workshop builds upon the successes of 2018 STEM TechCamp Brasil.

Additional background information for participants can be found here.

 

Agenda

TechCamp Day 1 - Monday, 11 February 2019

08:00 - 09:00 - Registration and Networking

09:00 - 09:15 - Welcome Remarks - Sarah Borenstein, U.S. Embassy; and Roseli de Deus Lopes, USP

09:15 - 09:25 - Overview of TechCamp Program and Agenda, Sam Gordon, IIP-TechCamps

09:25 - 10:25 - Dr. Roseli’s Lopes - “Key Competencies for the 21st Century”

10:25 - 10:40 - Coffee and Tea Break

10:40 - 11:15 - Student-Centered Design Exercise & ‘Creative Tensions’ Icebreaker

11:15 - 12:30 - Peer Exchange Session: Local Realities from Each State // (Groups will brainstorm different challenges they face in their local school district/state that could be solved by a particular strategy or technology)

12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch & Networking

14:00 - 14:10 - Speed-Geeking Explanation (Sam + Marcia)

Topic Trainer
Design and Strategy for student needs and classroom curriculum planningRey Duarte
Internet of Things (IoT) and using Interactive ToolkitsUlrich (Uli) Norbirath
ICT Tools for Effective CollaborationMariana Santos
Scratch 3.0: Amplifying our Voices through Creative CodingLeandro Biazon
Active Learning: Putting students in the Drivers SeatSoraya Lacerda + Daniela Lyra
STEM Education for 21st Century Workforce DevelopmentGustavo Pugliese
Data Visualization and Storytelling // Closing the Gender Gap in STEMNatalia Mazotte
From Analog to Digital: Rapidly Prototyping Your App Reuben-Brenner Adams

14:10 - 15:20 - Speed-Geeking

15:20 - 15:30 - Coffee and Tea Break

15:30 - 15:40 - Interactive Discussion Explanation, Sam

15:40 - 17:20 - Interactive Discussion 1 (choose one topic from table above)

17:20 - 17:30 - End of Day Announcements // Day 2 Preview

17:30 - Buses Depart

TechCamp Day 2 - Tuesday, 12 February 2019

08:00 - 08:45 - Arrival and Sign-In

08:45 - 09:00 - Day 2 Announcements + Participants make a selection for Training Session 2

09:00 - 10:30 - Interactive Training Session 2

10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee and Tea Break

10:45 - 12:15 - Interactive Training Session 3

12:15 - 13:30 - Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 - Challenge Statement Development: (Participants will continue to  reflect on their local realities in each state and their schools and work in small groups to define an actionable challenge that they will further develop and begin solving in teams)

14:00 - 14:15 - Present challenge statements (One representative from each group will read out their challenge statement and its importance)

14:15 - 15:15 Cristina Sleiman - Cybersecurity Plenary: “Ethics and Digital Citizenship:  Connected Educator”

15:15 - 16:15 - Jennifer Uhler and Barbara Noel Plenary: “STEM + English”

16:15 - 16:30 - Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:20 - Renata Duarte - Student Centered-Design and Building an Action Plan

17:20 - 17:30 - End of Day Announcements // Day 3 Preview

17:30 - Buses Depart

TechCamp Day 3 - Wednesday, 13 February 2019

08:30 - 09:00 - Registration, Coffee & Tea

09:00 - 09:45 - Presentation: Science Applied to Life // Marcelo Gandur, Research and Development 3M do Brasil

09:45 - 10:30 - Panel: How to Guide Research Projects in Basic Education featuring participant teachers from the Instituto 3M Innovation Challenge program (Moderator: Roseli de Deus Lopes)

10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:30 - Panel: How to do research projects in basic education with your students (Moderator: Roseli de Deus Lopes)

11:30 - 12:30 Mini Fair: Finalists students from  Mostra de C&T I3M, present their research projects

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:30 Business Panels and Interaction (Q & A): Microsoft, IBM, Qualcomm, Educando -  Mediator: 3M )

16:30 - 17:30 - Networking Event hosted by Mais Unidos

17:45 - Buses Depart

TechCamp Day 4 - Thursday, 14 February 2019

08:30 - 09:00 - Arrival and Sign-In

09:00 - 9:05 - Opening Announcements

9:05 - 9:55 - Success Cases: Presentation from the 5 projects implemented by the TechCamp Alumni recipient of the Small Grants. (10 Minutes each)

9:55 - 10:10 - Coffee & Tea Break

10:10 - 11:10 - Working on Solutions / Actions Plans: What can we feasibly plan for each State? Groups start brainstorming process as they map out possible courses of action

11:10 - 12:30 - Refinement: Teams work together to outline a possible solution to their challenge; definition of an implementation strategy

12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 - Training Session 4: Some trainers will offer an additional training session on their preferred topic of choice for participants to learn; (participants can continue work on their presentations if they prefer)

15:00 - 16:00 - Teams continue to work on solutions and presentations (with the support from TechCamp Alumni and mentors)

16:00 - 16:15 - Coffee Break

16:15 - 16:45 - Survey

16:45 - 17:30 - Dr. Roseli Lopes - “Fostering Research through Science Fairs

17:30 - Buses Depart

TechCamp Day 5 - Friday, 15 February 2019

8:30 - 9:00 - Arrival and Sign-in (Coffee)

9:00 - 10:30 - Final Presentations

10:30 - 10:45 - Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:45 - Final Presentations Continued

11:45 - 12:00 - Handing-out the participation certificates

12:00 - 12:30 - Closing messages and next steps (Dr. Roseli  Lopes + Sarah Borenstein)

12:30 - 2:00 - Lunch

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