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August 8-10, 2024
Goethe Institut São Paulo

Do you want to be part of tech-solutions for and national challenges in the educational area?

Do you have a problem in education that could be solved with the support of technology?

What is the EdTech Hackathon?

The program

The Edtech Hackathon is an event to develop tech solutions to local and global challenges in education. The online phase is the moment where everyone can submit an idea of challenge here. After the two editions of the EdTech Hackthon in 2022 and 2023, this year's hackathon will take place from the 8-10th of August at the Goethe-Institut in São Paulo. It will be three days for participants to develop solutions supported by mentors plus workshops, pizza and German food and beer.

What kind of problem we are aiming to solve?

The Challenges

Challenges related to education and technology can be submitted online and by everyone, some will be selected by jury and will be worked on by hackthon participants over two days. The solutions proposed during the Hackthon will be sent to the authors and published here.

Who can participate?

Participants

The participants from various regions of Brazil will be selected by the organizing committee. We will financially support applications from outside the expanded São Paulo area and from all over Brazil with a mobility grant.

The challenges

You have a challenges related to EdTech? Submit it here and we will select the best ones for the hackathon. The challenges will be presented to the participants and they will work on them during the hackathon.

Jury and Prizes

Thanks to our great partner, Goethe-Institute, the winning team will be awarded with a scholarship for one of its members to do a two-week intensive German course at a Goethe-Institute in Germany, including flight and accomodation costs. Besides, this person will be invited to visit all three origanising universities (FU Berlin, TUM and Uni Münster) and their startup centers during their stay.

The jury will evaluate the solutions based on the following criteria:

  • Degree of innovation
  • Feasibility
  • Benefit for the educational sector
  • Quality of final pitch

The Jury

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Thaís Blasio Martins

Municipal Education Secretary of São Paulo

Education Programms

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Roseli de Deus Lopes

Institute of Advanced Studies | IEA-USP

IEA Vice Director

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Goethe Institut

Goethe-Institut São Paulo

Goethe-Institut South America

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Marcio Weichert

DWIH São Paulo

Head of Programme

Workshops

We will have different pre hack Workshops to help you get started with your project. Stay tuned for more information.

Physical Computing

senseBox

The senseBox is a modular, open-source, and easy-to-use sensor box for environmental monitoring. It is designed for use in schools and citizen science projects. The senseBox is a great tool for learning about environmental monitoring and data analysis. In this workshop, we will show you how to build your own senseBox and how to use it to collect data.

AI

AI education in schools

Last year, the Brazilian School Computing Standard was approved, and according to the Ministry of Education, the implementation in schools should start in 2023. The Computing Standard includes a variety of computing topics that need to be addressed in schools, such as logic, data structures, artificial intelligence. Therefore, this workshop aims to demonstrate how educational technologies can support students in acquiring this expected computing knowledge and skills. For this, we chose one computing topic to address in the workshop: Artificial Intelligence (AI). This workshop will address what AI is and its main techniques and demonstrate some educational tools developed to teach AI in schools. Finally, we will explore an educational technology designed to teach how AI works to students and see how educational technologies can practically support computing education through a German use case.

mentor

Kamilla

AI

To be announced

To be announced. Stay tuned for more information.

mentor

Anna

UX and Design

Prototyping and Speculative Design

In the current global economic, demographic, and ecological crises, imagination and speculation are necessary skills. It is almost impossible to define a service, a product, or a change of habit based only on the present. On the other hand, speculative scenarios can make us use external contexts to reveal possible futures and come up with tangible and usable proposals. The Prototyping workshop will present theory and use questions to invite participants to build and test prototypes within future scenarios.

mentor

Kim

Timeline

  1. Start

    1st june 2024

    Registration for the EdTech Hackathon open

  2. Deadline for registration

    01 of Juli 2024

    Submit a challenge and apply to join the Edtech Hackthon

  3. Notification of acceptance

    7th of Juli 2024

    Until 7th of Juli you will get an information if you are selected to participate in the Edtech Hackthon

  1. Edtech Hackthon - Day 01

    August 08th 2024

    • 09:00- 10:00
    • Registration, welcome
    • 10:00-13:00
    • Pre-hack hands-on workshops on technologies from partners
    • 13:00
    • Lunch

    • 14:00
    • Welcome words DWIH and Goethe Institut / introduction & challenges

    • 14:30
    • Brainstorming, Pitching, Group forming

    • 16:00
    • Kick-off / registration of groups with participants and project name

    • 19:00
    • Pizza dinner

    • 21:00
    • End Day 1

  2. Edtech Hackthon - Day 02

    August 9th of 2024

    • 09:00
    • Start Day 2 - Hacking

    • 13:00
    • Lunch

    • 14:00
    • Study and Research in Germany

    • 18:00
    • Dinner

    • 21:00
    • End Day 2

  3. Edtech Hackthon - Day 03

    August 10th 2024

    • 09:00
    • Start Day 3 - Hacking, preparing presentations

    • 12:00
    • Lunch

    • 16:00
    • Final presentations to the jury. You can join the final presentations via youtube

    • 17:30
    • Announcement of winners & farewell

    • 18:00
    • End of the Hackathon

Questions

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The Mentors and Mediators

The Team of mentors will help you during the hackathon. They are experts in different fields and they will be available during the hackathon

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Artur Kim Shum

re:edu GmbH & Co KG.

Design, UX

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Felix Erdmann

re:edu GmbH & Co KG.

Web and App development

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Anna Maria Schneider

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

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Kamilla Tenório

FU Berlin

CS Education

The Organisators

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Mario Pesch

University of Muenster

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Dr. Thomas Bartoschek

University of Muenster

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Christian Lazar

FU Berlin

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Laura Redondo

University of Muenster

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Sören Metz

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Supporters

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Partners

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