Immersive environment, engaged communities, 150,000 visitors and 53,000 “campuseiros” connected with one purpose: “rewrite the source code of the world”. This is how we can summarize how the last edition of the Campus Party Brasil, held between 6/15 and 6/19, in Goiânia. And RNP can tell a little of this story, as it was responsible for connecting the festival whose pillars are technology, innovation, creativity, education, science and entrepreneurship. We provided secure, high-capacity internet, wired in a band of up to 10Gb/s and an eduroam Wi-Fi network for the entire event area, accessible to the academic community. In total, more than 16 terabytes were transferred over the network during the event.

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Hackathon

Undoubtedly, a landmark of RNP's participation was the Hackathon promoted. A programming marathon brought together the 16 registered teams who had the challenge of, within 47 hours, developing solutions to improve the user experience with a focus on UX and/or accessibility of the audiovisual content platform for education Eduplay. During the Hackathon, participants went through several rounds of mentoring and were able to attend lectures that guided them on the steps to solve a problem. The top three teams took home a total of BRL 20,000 in prizes.

Design Thinking

Speaking of improving our services, another exercise put into practice at the event was active listening. Through interviews focused on Design Thinking, 97 people, most of them university students between 18 and 24 years old, tested the usability of a prototype mobile application for the Web Conference service.

Include

Also during the Campus Party Goiás (CPGO), the Director of Engineering and Operations (DEO), Eduardo Grizendi, and the President of the Campus Party Institute, Francesco Farruggia, signed a cooperation agreement that sealed a partnership between the institutions in favor of Include, social program that relies on partnerships to implement or make possible the Technology Laboratory in communities throughout Brazil, as a social inclusion tool for children and young people between 10 and 18 years of age in a situation of socioeconomic vulnerability. Currently, Include has 62 laboratories in 53 cities and 10 states. The goal is to build up to 10,000 laboratories. The internet in these environments will be made available by RNP. Learn more about the initiative:

Lecture

Felipe Nascimento, Innovation analyst at RNP, and Roosevelt Benvindo, Solutions manager at RNP, also took RNP's name to the CPGO stage with the lecture "I'm tired of creating software that nobody wants to use". The presentation addressed the challenges faced from understanding the real needs of users, the use of the Design Thinking approach and concern for usability, passing through the agile development process from sprints, the essential functionalities in a project, with analysis of results and real value deliveries. Cases of wide-ranging RNP projects with the Ministry of Education (MEC) were presented, such as the Unified Selection System (Sisu), Digital Diploma, Digital National Book and Teaching Material Program (PNLD) and the Single Access - which brings together the Sisu, Prouni and Fies programs in a single environment.

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Booth

In the middle of the “Arena Campuseiro”, the RNP stand also provided several activations. Campuseiros were able to take and print photos on a totem, try their luck on the claw machine in search of a gift and interact with the characters Dumbledore and Darth Vader. All of RNP's actions at the CPGO were aimed at strengthening the relationship with the public that is the end user of our services and solutions: High School, Higher and Post-Graduate students from Institutes and Universities of the Federal Network.