IEMA/CEC training and planning meetings in Caxias (MA)
23/02/2017
Text: Ariane Mondo – Ascom ISD
Photos: Guilherme Lopes – CECs ISD
Since February 13th, the team at Maranhão State Institute of Science and Technology Education Scientific Education Center (IEMA/CEC) participates in training and planning meetings for the start of its activities in the municipality of Caxias, Maranhão (Photos HERE).
The meetings will take place until February 24th and involve all professionals linked to the IEMA/CEC project, who are guided by the CECs' pedagogical advisor, Rachel Dantas and by the coordinator of the CEC Manager Training Program, Guilherme Lopes. Classes in Caxias are scheduled to start in March.
About the ISD and SECTI partnership of Maranhão
In September 2016, the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation of Maranhão, Jhonatan Almada, visited the units of Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) from the cities of Natal and Macaíba (see the article HERE). In October, the ISD entered into a partnership with the State Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (SECTI) of Maranhão, through a technical cooperation agreement, for the implementation of a Scientific Education Center, located in the city of Caxias. In November and December 2016, the process of hiring and internship of professionals who will work at IEMA/CEC took place (see the article HERE).
This is one of the public policy actions of SECTI in this state and in the established partnership, the ISD is responsible for providing technical and pedagogical advice in the implementation process, in addition to monitoring pedagogical activities, which will be developed in the building of the Maranhão State Institute of Education, Science and Technology (IEMA).
The future IEMA Center for Scientific Education will have vacancies for 400 students from the public school system in the city of Caxias, who will attend four didactic workshops over a two-year period: Science and Environment, Science and History, Science and Robotics and Science and Technology. All of them will have as a methodological reference and pedagogical assumptions the Scientific Education project developed by ISD in Natal (RN), Macaíba (RN) and Serrinha (BA).
