III SCIENCE FAIR AND SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITION FROM UVA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UECE – A TECHNICAL-SCIENTIFIC REPORT

Abstract

The following report on the III Science Fair and Scientific Exhibition from the Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú (Acaraú Valley State University, UVA) in partnership with the Universidade Estadual do Ceará (Ceará State University, UECE), referring to the CNPq process No. 441619/2017-7, presents the results achieved in the conducting of the project entitled Science Fair and Scientific Exhibition: Scientific Development in the Semiarid Ceará, the product of the research conducted by students from the 9th grade of elementary school and the 1st and 2nd grades of high school from Ceará. The 95 papers, out of 105, composing this report came from schools in 28 state municipalities. The seven additional articles bring theoretical and methodological reflections to science. The research has five areas of knowledge composing it, namely environmental sciences and biotechnology, earth sciences, human sciences, pure science, and life sciences. Over the project course and in the interaction between university and school, the authors believe the research propagation can encourage the engaged students and others around them, causing knowledge to advance fast through the university. Besides, it is worth thanking the invaluable teachers' dedication and the CNPq support through the call CNPq/CAPES/MEC/MCTIC/SEPED No. 25/2017 science fairs and scientific exhibition.