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?
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.
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.
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.
You have a challenge related to EdTech or Education for Sustainable Development? The challenges will be presented to the participants and they will work on them during the hackathon.
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aims to enable people to acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values necessary to shape a sustainable future. ESD empowers learners of all ages to make informed decisions and act responsibly to achieve environmental integrity, economic viability, and a just society for present and future generations.
ESD is implemented globally through various projects and initiatives, adapting to local contexts while maintaining its core principles. From school curricula to community programs, ESD fosters an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world.
Join the Movement: Learn more about how you can contribute to Education for Sustainable Development and become part of the global movement towards a sustainable future.
Learn more about the Goethe-Institut ESD ProgramThanks 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:
Municipal Education Secretary of São Paulo
Education Programms
Institute of Advanced Studies | IEA-USP
IEA Vice Director
Goethe-Institut São Paulo
Deputy Director and Head of Language Department South America at Goethe-Institut Brazil in São Paulo
DWIH São Paulo
Head of Programme
We will have different pre hack Workshops to help you get started with your project. Stay tuned for more information.
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.
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.
Kamilla
The workshop addresses emerging child safety challenges in the digital environment, focusing on educational approaches that play a crucial role in the prevention and intervention of possible risks and harms. It will explore the most effective educational strategies to help children identify and get help with conduct and contact risks they face, such as self-harm, violence, and cyberbullying. This workshop aims to advance the conversation on digital child safety, emphasizing the importance of education in creating a safer online environment for young people.
Anna
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.
Kim
1st june 2024
Registration for the EdTech Hackathon open
01 of Juli 2024
Submit a challenge and apply to join the Edtech Hackthon
7th of Juli 2024
Until 7th of Juli you will get an information if you are selected to participate in the Edtech Hackthon
August 08th 2024
Lunch
Welcome words DWIH and Goethe Institut / introduction & challenges
Brainstorming, Pitching, Group forming
Kick-off / registration of groups with participants and project name
Pizza dinner
End Day 1
August 9th of 2024
Start Day 2 - Hacking
Lunch
Study and Research in Germany
Dinner
End Day 2
August 10th 2024
Start Day 3 - Hacking, preparing presentations
Lunch
Final presentations to the jury. You can join the final presentations via youtube
Announcement of winners & farewell
End of the Hackathon
The Team of mentors will help you during the hackathon. They are experts in different fields and they will be available during the hackathon
re:edu GmbH & Co KG.
Design, UX
re:edu GmbH & Co KG.
Web and App development, Fullstack
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
FU Berlin
CS Education
Co-founder at SignLink / Incoming Technical Student at CERN / University of São Paulo
WebDev, GenAI, Pitch Presentation
University of São Paulo. Co-founder and Head of Marketing at Milie Mind
design thinking, buisness modelling and pitching
Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) & Sign Link
Design, 3d Printing and Modeling, UI/UX.
Coordinator of 2811's activities in Brazil
2811, climate-action, product-design.
University of Muenster
University of Muenster
FU Berlin
University of Muenster
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
