CGEE hosts a special Cine CGEE session at a public school in Brasília.

This initiative is part of the SBPC Goes to School program, which includes screenings of the Looking to the Future trilogy for elementary school students, followed by discussions on climate change and scientific misinformation.

The Center for Management and Strategic Studies (CGEE) will hold a special edition of Cine CGEE on the 29th at Escola Classe 416 Sul, in Brasília (DF). The initiative is part of the SBPC Goes to School program, from the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC), aiming to bring children closer to science through cinema and dialogue with researchers.

The program includes two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, with an estimated participation of 300 students from the 1st to the 5th grade of elementary school. In each session, students will watch the animated trilogy "Looking to the Future ," produced by CGEE, followed by a discussion with members of the Center's technical team about climate change, scientific misinformation, and the importance of science in society.

The animations address themes relevant to the scientific and civic education of children. The first film portrays climate change and global warming; the second addresses wildfires, pollution, and ocean literacy; and the third presents issues related to scientific misinformation and fact-checking. The films have already been shown to thousands of children during sessions of the National Science and Technology Week (SNCT).

The activity will begin with a brief presentation of the objectives of the action, followed by the screening of the films and a discussion with the children, led by the team from the Production and Dissemination of Information for the SNCTI project, from CGEE. The aim is to stimulate curiosity, critical thinking and interest in science, as well as to offer teachers and the school community audiovisual resources that can contribute to pedagogical work.

This initiative aligns with the theme of the 78th Annual Meeting of the SBPC (Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science), "Science for All: sovereignty, development and inclusion," by emphasizing the democratization of scientific knowledge and access to scientific dissemination from the earliest years of basic education.

According to the CEO of CGEE, Anderson Gomes, the action reinforces the Center's role in linking science, education, and society, through scientific dissemination and media literacy initiatives aimed at training students capable of understanding contemporary issues, evaluating information, and recognizing the importance of scientific knowledge.

“Bringing science into the school is a way to spark children's curiosity. With Cine CGEE, we seek to bring scientific knowledge closer to students' daily lives by offering them tools to understand issues such as climate change and to identify false or misleading information,” says Gomes.

The project is carried out with funding from the SBPC Goes to School program.