Seduc announces winners of the Innovation in Education Award with Chromebooks
Winning teachers are from Cotijuba and Alenquer, and will participate in an educational event at Google Brazil's headquarters on the 21st, in São Paulo (SP)
On Teacher's Day celebrated this Wednesday (15), the State Department of Education (Seduc) announced the results of the winning teachers of the "Inova Servidor Award." The winning educators will participate in the educational innovation event at Google Brazil's headquarters in São Paulo on October 21, 2025. The announcement was made online on Tuesday (14) by the Secretary of Education, Ricardo Sefer.
"I am very emotional to be able to award Clara and Taiane. To say that you will get to know Google, that your project will indeed take on greater proportions than you imagine. So, congratulations from the bottom of my heart, may your example potentially inspire our entire network, and know that you will go as representatives. Representatives of our teachers, of the determination that is the public educator of the State of Pará. May we use this instrument, like many others, to multiply, and the only ones who will benefit are our students, who all deserve the utmost respect," emphasized the head of Seduc, Ricardo Sefer.
The online dynamic on Tuesday allowed public state school teachers to present, in a 3-minute video, a pedagogical practice explaining its efficiency and results through the use of Chromebooks.
One of the winning projects is by teacher Taiane Novaes do Carmo, stationed at the State School Professor Marta da Conceição, located in Cotijuba, in Belém. She presented the project "From Waste to Environmental Awareness: Interdisciplinarity, Pedagogical Innovation, and Digital Technologies for Sustainable Education on the Island of Cotijuba-PA," developed with high school students in the riverside community of the Island, combining scientific articulation, active methodologies, and the use of digital technologies that involve reflection on the improper disposal of solid waste.
"I am happy; when I received the email, I thought it was just another stage, I imagined there were other teachers, and I was already happy just to be able to share and hear reports from other teachers. It is good to know that we have other people in Pará, sharing, and thus, we are crazy about education because it is where lives change, it has already changed mine and will certainly help our students," said the emotional teacher Taiane.
In her project, students used Google Forms for research with residents; Google Earth for mapping critical areas; and Google Sheets and Docs for collaborative analysis and writing of results. Additionally, Canva was used to create educational materials. The product resulted in the educational game "Save the Little Fish" aimed at raising environmental awareness in the school community.
The other selected project was designed by science and biology teacher Clara Araújo Salviano, from the State School Santo Antônio, in the municipality of Alenquer, with the theme: "Science in 3D: creating and exploring models in the classroom."
The proposal consists of using digital resources to make science teaching more interactive and visual, organized into three stages, allowing the use of Chromebooks to access free 3D model banks such as Sketchfab, Smithsonian 3D, and BioDigital Human, exploring biological structures in detail. Subsequently, there is the production of presentations in Google Slides and the creation of 3D models in Tinkercad, representing systems of the human body, reproductive structures, and ecological concepts.
"I was quite emotional; I remember when I wrote it, I counted on my students, and they said they were rooting for me, that it would work out. And I think that when we are teachers, we are also a representative figure for our students; this teaching and learning process, as you mentioned, I come from the interior, I am from Alenquer, I left to get my degree, and then, besides being a teacher, I am a figure for my students, and for them to see that there is this opportunity that we can achieve through our ideas, to transform, to reach places we never thought we could reach, is also a way to motivate them. I want to thank you very much for listening to our projects; they believed, and knowing that it is a project that can go to other places," said teacher Clara Salvino!
The initiative highlights the potential of Chromebooks and open digital tools to promote active learning, creativity, and the development of students' scientific thinking.
