[{"jcr:title":"Insper team classifies for the final of Campus Mobile competition on innovation","cq:tags_0":"area-de-conhecimento:tecnologia","cq:tags_1":"area-de-conhecimento:ciência-da-computação"},{"richText":"The work of Alison, Gabrielly, and Rafaela, from Computer Engineering, is among the three best education projects in the national competition of ideas for mobile devices","authorDate":"27/03/2024 10h49","author":"Leandro Steiw","madeBy":"Por","tag":"area-de-conhecimento:ciência-da-computação","title":"Insper team classifies for the final of Campus Mobile competition on innovation","variant":"imagecolor"},{"jcr:title":"transparente - turquesa - vermelho"},{"themeName":"transparente - turquesa - vermelho"},{"containerType":"containerTwo"},{"jcr:title":"Grid Container Section","layout":"responsiveGrid"},{"text":"The work of students Alison Araujo de Oliveira, Gabrielly Carneiro Susko and Rafaela de Oliveira Alexandre, from Insper Computer Engineering, is among the finalists in the 12th edition of Campus Mobile, a national competition for ideas and solutions for mobile devices. They were among the Top 3 in the Education category, with Projeto Horizontes (Horizons Project), an application prototype that recommends academic and professional opportunities available according to the user’s interests.   In February, the three students participated in the immersion week of the competition, along with other 96 groups of academics from 26 states. There were five days of lectures, group dynamics with psychologists and meetings with experts in innovation and business models, which ended up defining the 18 finalists, divided into six categories — each one has already received a prize of 2,700 Brazilian  reais . In the next stage, the 18 will be helped by professionals to finalize the prototypes. The winning group of Campus Mobile will win a trip to Silicon Valley, in the United States.   The  Horizontes  Project was developed in the Application Co-Design course, in the second semester of Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronic Engineering undergraduate programs. “The design and entrepreneurship tracks of Insper’s Engineering programs seek to encourage our students to think of building solutions that are desirable, feasible and viable and that, above all, are connected to real-world problems,” says André Santana, professor of the course.   According to Luiz Fernando Durão, also a professor of Application Co-Design, the students made important progress in characterizing the problem during the course. “Understanding the user was essential in this process and, from the interviews to the tests, they were important to consolidate the user’s pain,” says Durão. It was not the first time that Insper Engineering groups participated in the competition. The two professors agree that it has been exciting to see students competing at Campus Mobile with the drive and determination of those who seek to know more.   The immersion week experience had a lot to do with the development of the students. “Our students had the opportunity to interact with entrepreneurs from different parts of Brazil and to share and learn from Brazilian diversity, with the challenges of presenting a project structured in class in front of several experts in the area of innovation,” says Santana. “It was amazing to accompany our students on this journey, at atypical times of productivity and validating all the knowledge they learned in our courses.”   Friendly environment   The intensity of the immersion stage caught Gabrielly’s attention. She notes that, making the most of the interaction with teams from all over Brazil, participants were able to learn more about each project in depth. “It even made me a bit nervous, because everyone was so good,” she says. “But we had the Campus Mobile mentor and ambassador helping us all the time, giving us guidance. This was extremely valuable. It was cool to learn from other teams, as it wasn’t a competitive environment. People were really helping each other, regardless of whether they belonged to the same category in the competition. Both the Campus Mobile team and the competitors were very friendly.”   For Alison, recognition is a source of happiness. “The development of  Horizontes , together with Gabi and Rafa, has been very pleasurable and rewarding,” he states. “We got here very aligned and with the same passion as we did at the beginning. I see potential in  Horizontes, and I am very excited and optimistic about what lies ahead. In these last few months, since the group was created together with professors Luiz Durão and Maria Alice Monticelli, until now, our idea and our work have matured considerably.”   Gabrielly agrees with Alison. “Since the preparatory phase, we have grown a lot as a project and as entrepreneurs,” she says. “We learned about the business model; we carried out market research. This made us feel that  Horizontes  is something tangible. The feeling of reaching the final proves that our idea can really make a difference and may impact students’ lives. For us, being among the Top 3 projects is an enormous recognition, especially because we are at the beginning of our undergraduate program, and we compete with people who have graduated or are already working.”   The three students also mention the importance of the support from mentor Rafael Eiki, ambassador Amanda Galvão and Professor André Santana for improving the prototype. “We have evolved in a way that, for me, was unbelievable,” says Alison. “We spent five intense days breathing, waking up and going to sleep with  Horizontes , which ended up becoming a new project, increasingly structured and tangible. We will do our best to ensure that our users are the protagonists of their own stories, that they embark on new opportunities that were previously unknown and that they develop academically in the way they want.”   Santana believes that the group is on the right track. “The  Horizontes  Project can certainly contribute to make academic opportunities more democratic, inclusive and able to help more young people to take the next step,” he says. As Gabrielly reports, during the Campus Mobile immersion several people regretted not having a similar application when they started studying or working."}]