The Fortress Of Knowledge Social Dimension In Engineering Education

This work is the description of a project that has been implemented in public schools in the city of São Vicente. It is the initiative of São Vicente City Hall that has decided to implement special programs for K12 in public schools in the city. The main goal is to help students to develop the necessary skills to follow carriers like engineer, which is so necessary for the development of a country, or computer science and others. The project has been named Let’s go folks! and the Fortress of knowledge is the special space created in the schools where the students can spend some hours of the week enjoying the good time of learning in a complete new way. It started in February of 2002; it has been dimensioned to serve 10 thousand students per year, including the qualification of teachers and technical staff. The project has been developed and applied by the City Hall education coordination in a joint venture with Supportnet, a private enterprise with the support of COPEC – Council of Researches in Education and Sciences. The success of the project has been so good that it is going to be amplified to the qualification of poor communities citizens in the city.