Enrolments are open to the contest ‘Travelling with Darwin’, inviting approximately 10,000 students from the 1st to 9th grades (aged 6-15) from public education located in Maricá. The work selection aims to motivate the students to a scientific investigation related to the concepts that the English scientist Charles Darwin formulated on Human Evolution and its impacts nowadays. It also highlights the importance of the expedition that Darwin leaded to Maricá and to another eleven cities in Rio de Janeiro in the XIX century, studying the species for his most famous book On the Origin of Species.
According to schedule, the result will be released in next October, celebrating the five best works with a very interesting prize: a panoramic flight on Maricá. The five students will know the city from a different perspective taken by Darwin who arrived in Brazil in the Beagle ship almost 180 years ago. They will have the unique chance to know the place they live, observing the whole city: the geography, the Atlantic Forest, the sandbank, the lagoon system, the watershed and the ocean.
When preparing the work, the student must express the scientific creativity, choosing among different areas of knowledge: scenic arts, plastic arts, composition, mathematics, collection of biological and geological material concerned to the field research. There is also the possibility to relate Darwin with current issues as sustainable development, climatic changes, etc.
All students at the contest are allowed to present their works in Science and Technology week in October and during the week of ‘Darwin’s Paths’, in November, in a meeting with other cities visited by Darwin, reminding that moment.
The contest is organized by Department of Science and Technology and Maricá's Department of Education with the support of Ministry of Science and Technology, Science House (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Aeroclub (Maricá).
Enrolment forms should be submitted until June 6. The school or the student interested in the contest must enrol at the following site: http://www.marica.rj.gov.br/viajandocomdarwin (you can check regulation, schedule and general information in the internet).
Contacts can also be made by phone and email: +55 21 2637-8817 (Code 28) or subcienciaetecnologia@marica.rj.gov.br
My translation to Saulo Machado based on his text in Portuguese
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