{"id":6032,"date":"2023-02-15T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solvefortomorrowlatam.com\/pratica\/trio-de-estudantes-argentinos-desenvolvem-estrategia-de-descontaminacao-de-bitucas-de-cigarro\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T13:46:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T16:46:43","slug":"trio-de-estudantes-argentinos-desenvolvem-estrategia-de-descontaminacao-de-bitucas-de-cigarro","status":"publish","type":"pratica","link":"https:\/\/solvefortomorrowlatam.com\/en\/case\/trio-de-estudantes-argentinos-desenvolvem-estrategia-de-descontaminacao-de-bitucas-de-cigarro\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of Argentine students develop a cigarette butt decontamination strategy<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reusing cigarette butts, fully recovering and eliminating all chemicals and toxins from the cellulose used by fungi. This was the solution designed and achieved by a trio of young people, students in their final year of high school at the Adolfo P\u00e9rez Esquivel National School<\/a>, in Olavarr\u00eda, Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Adolfo P\u00e9rez Esquivel National School is part of the campus of the <\/span>National University of Buenos Aires Province Center<\/span><\/a> (UNICEN), an institution of great prestige in the country and abroad. As part of the proposal, collaboration between research, teaching and extension is sought, involving professors and joint actions between institutions. In addition to primary education, the school offers secondary-level technical training in Art, Design and Communication, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Production of Goods and Services.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The proposal arose in the Entrepreneurship course taught by Professor Agust\u00edn Pascua. Proposing greater dynamism for the classroom, which is structured to be a space for pedagogical innovation and hands-on learning, the teacher found in Samsung Solve for Tomorrow<\/strong> a way to support teenagers in the implementation of projects of interest to youth. \u201cIt is not a contest. It is a program that invites teachers to change their pedagogical perspective,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an initial strategy, the professor presented the Project Journey<\/a> made available by the program to his class of 20 students, inviting them to organize themselves into groups based on skills and abilities. He then spent two classes working with the whole group on the Sustainable Development Goals, helping them to list possible social challenges<\/a> they would like to work on. The most varied problems emerged from the brainstorming rounds<\/a>, which impacted both the school and the community. \u201cAmong them, we identified that the lawn around the school, which is huge and beautiful, was brown. Brown from cigarette butts, thrown and scattered all over the corner\u201d, narrates the educator, remembering that Argentina is a country where there is a lot of cigarette consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trio formed by Ander Argui\u00f1ena, Daniel G\u00f3ngora Banegas and Luna Morena Ruiz D\u00edaz decided to take on the issue, but still had no idea how to solve the problem. To guide them, following the pedagogical proposal of their discipline, the professor invited them to create a Lean Canvas, a methodology for developing business models, focused on three axes: public, problem and solution. As a challenge, they had to summarize the problem and the solution in 300 characters each, learning to respond objectively to what they would like to test. After extensive investigation, the youths understood that they would like to recycle or reuse cigarette butts in some way, acting directly on environmental depollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the problem in hand, they began to look for a solution and, according to the teacher, this was, without a doubt, the most difficult process. \u201cAt first, we only found proposals that were very costly or that generated new environmental problems, with the use of chemicals that were harmful to the environment and human health\u201d, he explains. It was then that the group found the doctoral thesis by Dr. Leopoldo Ben\u00edtez Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>, defended at the Autonomous University of Mexico. \u201cWe found the dissertation, got in touch with him via LinkedIn, and he promptly answered us, explaining his research better\u201d, celebrates the professor.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n