Public school students present scientific initiation projects at COP30
In the Pará Pavilion, the projects showcased studies on Amazonian snakes, monitoring, and natural repellents
The State Department of Education (Seduc) presented, this Monday (17), the panel with the theme "Amazon that inspires: Scientific Initiation in the Forest", at the Pará Pavilion, in the Green Zone of COP30. The initiative is part of the Environmental Education Policy of the Government of Pará, which, since 2024, has implemented the mandatory curricular component of Environmental Education, Sustainability, and Climate at all levels of education in the public network.
The meeting, mediated by the Deputy Secretary of Articulation of Seduc, Diego Maia, brought together teachers and students from the State School Professor Oneide de Souza Tavares (located on Cotijuba Island, belonging to Belém), and from the State School Ruth Rosita de Nazaré Gonzales, in the Marco neighborhood.
The presentation of the projects "Snakes in the Amazon and the therapeutic legacy transmitted by popular culture", "Sustainable innovation for transportation and monitoring in the Amazon of Pará" and "Smell of priprioca, power of andiroba: The repellent that protects us", reinforced youth protagonism, showing how science is integrated into the daily lives of students.
Path - For the Deputy Secretary of Seduc, the projects presented demonstrate that the Environmental Education discipline is on the right track. "This panel shows that the project, the environmental policy, the law, and environmental education as a curricular component in the Education Department's curriculum have been successful, without neglecting the transversality of everything that teachers already do, but with a curriculum that organizes this path. It shows the protagonism of youth, scientific initiation in high school, as stated by the students themselves. They believed that science could only be seen in college. Seeing this from high school changes life paths, changes the idea of a professional course they would pursue but were unsure about, and today, in high school, a life project path changed the course of a student, like Ana Beatriz, who was going to study Psychology, and now will study Biology or Pharmacy," emphasized Diego Maia.
One of the panelists, Carlos Henrique, a high school student, spoke about the serum for snake bites. "The importance of my project in society, and for our future, is to bring the importance of traditional knowledge, and how the combination of scientific and popular knowledge can save and transform countless lives. My mission is to spread this knowledge and convince everyone that the State, and the Amazon, have the potential to do science," said the student.
