Teams from all over Brazil are already working on innovative projects for Samsung’s corporate citizenship program
The next edition of Solve For Tomorrow is already moving students and teachers from public schools throughout Brazil. Samsung’s global Corporate Citizenship program arrived in the country in 2014, and in 9 editions it has already involved more than 168,559 students, 36,420 teachers and 6,049 public schools. Knowing the impact of the initiative on the lives of those who participate in the initiative, groups of students from different states mobilize to create innovative solutions to be presented at the time of registration. Check below how some schools are already preparing for the next edition of the program.
What to expect from the next edition of Solve For Tomorrow
At the Professor Sebastião de Oliveira Rocha State School, located in São Carlos, in the interior of São Paulo, there is a plan for more teachers to participate in the next edition of the program. In addition, educators and management have a goal for the school to be increasingly sustainable, so it is likely that the institution’s projects will follow this line. One of the chemistry teachers at the school, Barbara Guedes Rodrigues, says that she already has a team working on the idea of a prototype focused on sustainability and health. “We are studying a project that unites recycling and adapted activity. It aligns with other school subjects,” she explains.
At the State School CETI Professor Manuel Vicente Ferreira Lima, in Coari (AM), at least thirty students have already shown interest in participating in the next edition of Solve For Tomorrow Brasil. So far, projects focusing on sustainability, alternative food production, and biotechnology have already been discussed. According to biology professor Fabio Cano, ideas are being worked on that include the creation of a vegetable garden, an electrophoresis device and a hydroelectric project. “We have already started six original projects and continued with another prototype, previously developed by one of the school’s teams”, he says.
In Manacapuru (AM), students at the Nossa Senhora de Nazaré State School have been preparing since the 9th edition, held in 2022. “The school has been preparing since the end of the 2022 school year, stimulating students with ideas to be researched, conversation circles with the last edition’s finalist team”, says professor Galileu da Silva Pires. He also says that there are already two projects under development at the school. One of them is already at a very advanced stage of prototyping and the other is in the process of being tested in the field. “It is likely that the enrolled prototypes will reach socioeconomic, environmental and health areas, which are examples of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN)”, he explains.
Galileu also says that more than 100 students from the institution showed interest in participating in the next edition of Solve For Tomorrow Brasil. They have already formed research groups and are looking for new topics to work on during the program. In addition, other schools have already approached the institution to provide support in the development of ideas, in the creation of prototypes and in their participation in the program in general.
“The research process that precedes the testing phase and the final creation of the prototypes is very important for the progress of the projects”, says Anna Karina Pinto, Director of Corporate Marketing at Samsung Brasil. “In nine editions, Solve For Tomorrow Brasil featured highly intelligent, innovative and effective prototypes, developed by students and professors with high creative capacity. This track record is one of the reasons why we raise our expectations for the next edition”.
“It is very interesting how participation in Solve for Tomorrow Brasil and the expectation for the next editions, year after year, encourage schools to adopt project work more widely, in order to improve this practice and engage more and more teachers. and students”, evaluates Beatriz Cortese, Executive Director of Cenpec, the organization responsible for the general coordination of the initiative. “Thus, one of the legacies of each edition is the improvement of the look at the connection between school content and real life, with its challenges”.
About Solve For Tomorrow
Solve For Tomorrow has been in Brazil since 2014 and, in its 9th edition, had a diverse program consisting of webinars, workshops and mentoring to help participants achieve their goals by applying possible improvements to their projects. In total, the initiative has already involved more than 168,559 students, 36,420 teachers and 6,049 public schools. And in 2022, it registered a 65% increase in the number of students enrolled, compared to the previous year.
The Brazilian edition of Solve For Tomorrow has a network of partners, such as the representation in Brazil of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO in Brazil), Todos pela Educação and the Organization of Ibero-American States. Americans (OEI), in addition to the support of the National Council of Secretaries of Education (Consed) and the general coordination of Cenpec.
To learn more about the program, visit or follow Solve For Tomorrow on social media. The initiative is present on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.