De-mucillator

Project objective, problem to be solved, and main actions

The main objective of the project was to recover the tree species Heliocarpus americanus for the panela(sugar cane) industry, incorporating a technological element that extracts an input called mucilage without destroying the species.

We work with the question: is it possible to recover the species Heliocarpus americanus for the production of clean panela? How is it possible to extract the input called mucilage from the tree called Balso Blanco without it being affected and dying?

To conduct the project, first of all, programming of the discipline of Technology – Informatics is developed, which includes an environmental education practice in which they dialogue with the context that allows them to analyze the problems of the locality, systematize and analyze in different groups where to propose intervention and research proposals that give them more breadth and understanding of the problem for which they finally provide a technological solution.

The project was the idea of the young people, who then came to me.

 

Deepening into the issue and involvement of the school and local community

The community was involved through context investigation processes, generating material written by students when questioning the community. This material served as input for the analysis of the problem. They visited not only farmers but also dialogued with entities linked to the problem and the university to see what solutions have been proposed for the problem.

The University of Nariño helped with training and research, Trapicheros with information about the panela manufacturing process, Fedepanela (panela federation) with information, and the farmers with information as well.

 

The development of the solution

To develop the solution, we did:

1. Context Reading
2. Analysis of the local environmental situation
3. Bibliographic and field research
4. Systematization
5. Generation of solutions (materials, resistance, type of energy, accessibility, scalability, sustainability)
6. Mockup
7. Support
8. Prototyping

The construction of the prototype

As a prototype, the model of the proposed solution was presented.

 

 

 

Evaluation of the process and the developed solution

A avaliação do projeto é desenvolvida nos cenários expositivos entre as turmas de cada série e depois de forma geral em feiras de caráter institucional. Na avaliação, foram utilizadas rubricas e observações das melhorias no desempenho das crianças nos diferentes cenários graças ao feedback dos colegas.

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