Students from Piauí take part in experiments at IMPA and IMPA Tech
Young people were finalists in Seduckathon 2025, the state’s innovation marathon
Starting on Monday (23), 68 public school students from Piauí are taking part in an academic and tourist immersion in Rio de Janeiro. The young people were finalists in the Seduckathon 2025the largest student innovation and entrepreneurship marathon in the Northeast, and have now been rewarded with activities in museums and educational institutions in the city, especially at the IMPA (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) and at IMPA Tech.
The intense schedule of activities began in the port area, with a guided tour of IMPA Tech’s facilities in the technological hub of Maravalley Port. “Welcoming these excellent students from Piauí, finalists in the Seduckathon, is a great pleasure. The visit is a great opportunity for integration and contact with academic and scientific life. We hope they feel at home and that this experience will be very fruitful for everyone,” said academic manager Nara Bobko.
Held since 2024, the Seduckathon integrates educational robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) teaching, digital reading and business simulation, programming and systems development are just some of the possibilities. In the competition, students use technological resources to create creative projects that combine experimentation and transformation.
Now, last year’s finalists have been divided into two groups, with two trips to Rio de Janeiro: from February 23 to 27 and from March 2 to 6. In the mornings, the young people will stay at IMPA Tech, where they will take a mini-course in programming, taught by Professor Uéverton Souza.
The meetings will take place in classrooms and in the computer lab, where Souza will cover basic topics of algorithm analysis, with the aim of awakening a critical sense of computational efficiency among beginner programmers. The proposal is to encourage students to compare different solutions to the same problem and to reflect on execution time, memory usage and scalability.
Later this week, visitors will also take a tour of IMPA’s headquarters in the Botanical Garden, with an exclusive edition of IMPA Open Doors. The young people will have a screening of the movie “Counted Out” and a chat with the Institute’s director-general, Marcelo Viana, and project scientist Lucas Nissenbaum.
On the other days, museums and educational institutions are on the agenda in the afternoons. Visits to PlanetáRio, the Museum of Tomorrow, the Botanical Garden and the Inovateca at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) are scheduled by the Piauí State Department of Education.
The next group of students from Piauí arrives in Rio next Sunday (1st), when they will have the same program as this week.
