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The team made up of students from State School Professor Sebastião de Oliveira Rocha, from São Carlos (SP), won first place in the Brazilian version of the Samsung's initiative that encourages high school students to find science and technology-based solutions to pressing social problems. You Solve for Tomorrow 2021 winners developed a project to produce biogas from organic waste. 2ml5q
The announcement of the champions took place in a live broadcast on the project's YouTube channel, titled in Brazil as Answers for Tomorrow. Together with the students of São Carlos, teams of crateus (CE) and Flowers (PE) won, respectively, the second and third place. The final phase of the challenge consisted of a selection of ten teams, which represented the states of Ceará, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo.
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The prototype called Sustainable School Technology Linked to Arduino was the great champion of the program in 2021. To solve the problem of high food waste in the school environment, the team of four students from Escola Estadual Professor Sebastião de Oliveira Rocha developed a biodigester which transforms discarded food into biogas, to be used in the school's stove. A calculator to help cooks prepare the proper amount of food was also part of the solution.
The chemistry teacher and project advisor, Barbara Guedes Rodrigues, commented that the students observed a waste, mainly due to the calculation of quantity, with more food being prepared than necessary. Thus, the food that will not be consumed goes to the biodigester along with portions of fertilizer. There are anaerobic bacteria in the fertilizer that decompose the organic matter. At the end of the process, the chemical reaction releases leachate and natural gases, called biogases.
This biogas is captured to be dammed and, later, used to supply school stoves to prepare meals. The fertilizing of plants in a school garden was also benefited by the released leachate, excellent for composting.
Solve for Tomorrow aims to encourage young people to develop their creativity and create solutions to real problems, developing their skills and promoting an improvement for the world we live in. The project developed by the students of São Carlos is another example of the role of education in solving the challenges of today”
Isabel Costa, Corporate Citizenship Manager at Samsung Brazil
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The second and third place went to the teams of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology from Ceará, and from Dario Gomes de Lima School from Pernambuco, respectively. There was also an Honorable Mention to the group of students from the School C E-EF M Professional Garden Porto Alegre, in the city of Toledo, Paraná, for its sustainability project, in order to avoid wastage of fruits in the pre- and post-harvest periods.
In addition to the winners of solve for tomorrow 2021, three projects were selected by a Popular Jury. The most voted were from the teams of the EEB Good Shepherd School (Chapecó, SC), which developed a prototype for lung recovery of patients who had sequelae of Covid-19; gives Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha Technical School Foundation (Novo Hamburgo, RS), with a project focused on sustainability process, and from Maria Môsa da Silva State School of Professional Education (Ocara, CE), facing the area of farming.
The winning projects by the Popular Jury received the “Winning Project by the Popular Jury” Trophy and headphones Samsung Buds+ for each of the guiding students and professors. National Winners' awards include a Samsung Smart TV for each school. Team received smartphones (1st place), tablets (2th place) and Samsung smartwatches (3th place).
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O Answers for Tomorrow Award, a Samsung initiative, has been in Brazil since 2014, involving over 165 students, 22 teachers and 5 public schools in 8.113 ed projects. The 8th edition of the program recorded a 22% increase in student participation, 40% for teachers and 52% for schools compared to 2020, even though it was carried out remotely for the second consecutive year.
The aim is to empower future generations to reach their full potential. The initiative has a network of partners, such as Science and Culture (UNESCO in Brazil), Latin American Network for Education (Reduces) and Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI).
This award is part of the solve for tomorrow, a global program Samsung that encourages the development of solutions for local demands in schools, aimed at students and teachers. The aproach STEM (acronym in English for Sciences, Tech, Engineering e Mathematics) is the basis of actions.
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to meet others Samsung initiatives focused on education, the matter about the Samsung Creative Startups talks about how the program aims to improve remote teaching and improve interaction between students and teachers.
Sources: Samsung.
