Results

Winner

Team Red & SobreVivência - Blood Donation Awareness
Andrew, Diogo, Jessica, Mateus
Solution on Github

Team Blue & AHIMSA - Multiple Disabilities, Games & Play
Fernando, Rodrigo, Stacy, William
Solution on Github

Team Green & Instituto S.O.S. - Recycling & Social Development
Alessandra, Guilherme, Kevin, Sebastian
Solution on Github

Team Pink & SuperAção - Cancer Patient Support
Felipe, Karen, Leonardo, Sam
Solution on Github

Team Yellow & Projeto Resgate - Opportunities for the Youth
Ayrton, Isabelle, Karin, Rodrigo
Solution on Github

About the Event

The WorldSkills Digital Challenge (The WSDC) is a groundbreaking event that will demonstrate how Information Technology related competitions can be fun and engaging. The WSDC will bring together talented problem solvers from different parts of the world to help Brazilian NGOs with their social projects, leaving a sustainable legacy in the local communities. The event will be hosted at the Anhembi Park, the venue of WorldSkills São Paulo 2015.

International WorldSkills Champions, Brazilian NGOs and local developers/designers from São Paulo apply online. There are 5 spots for Champions, 15 spots for locals, and 5 spots for NGO problems.
Participants get selected based on their experience and profile. NGOs get selected based on the strength/relevance of the problem they have put out.
Teams are formed and solutions to the problems are worked during the challenge. The teams will create websites, mobile apps, prototypes, or Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). They present their work at demo time, when judges decide who is the winner team.

days

4-day event in parallel to WorldSkills São Paulo 2015

participants

WorldSkills IT Champions and local technologists work in teams to help social projects move forward

challenges

Participants work to solve problems faced by NGOs in Brazil, leaving a great legacy behind.

5 Challenges

Here are the five challenges that participants will work on during the WSDC 2015.

Opportunities
for
the Youth

A young man and an older man shaking hands

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Multiple
Disabilities,
Games & Play

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Blood
Donation
Awareness

A young woman smiles while making a blood donation.

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Recycling &
Social
Development

Two men talk in a recycling center background

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Cancer
Patient
Support

A patient treating cancer and her relative smiling

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We support students coming from low-income families by providing scholarships in private schools for basic education.
www.projetoresgate.org.br
Our Challenge
How to leverage Information Technology for key individuals in the society to create opportunities for youth in interesting and sustainable ways by exploring interpersonal ties.
We are a school of special education for children and teenagers with multiple sensory disabilities.
www.ahimsa.org.br
Our Challenge
How to implement technology in the form of games that are accessible for people with multiple disabilities or deafblindness.
We promote the importance of voluntary blood donation through projects that facilitate the development of this solidary act as a habit for youth.
www.sobrevivencia.org.br
Our Challenge
How to encourage teenagers to make their first blood donation and develop the intrinsic motivation to continue donating throughout the course of their lives.
We aim to change the way people deal with waste resultant from their consumer habits by developing means to generate environmental benefits through the reinsertion of such waste into the productive chain.
www.institutosos.org.br
Our Challenge
How to help waste and recyclables collectors - who are socially vulnerable - manage their work better, so they can join a worker cooperative for obtaining a fairer compensation while making one step further towards economic emancipation.
We provide emotional support to cancer patients by connecting them with families who have overcome cancer with volunteer supervision.
www.portalsuperacao.org
Our Challenge
How to use technology for connecting individuals and families who have beaten cancer with others who are still fighting against it for exchange of experiences and advice.