The Psicopatolog team, made up of five students from Limeira Technical College (Cotil), brought mental health as the theme of his project and took home the big victory in the final of Innova Young 2022, organized annually by the Inova Unicamp Innovation Agency. The event took place last Thursday (27) and brought together 459 people online.
The project by students Enzo Torresendi, Karen Kuga, Pedro Quintans, Pedro Marchi and Vinícius Laureano consists of an artificial intelligence application to support professionals working in the field of psychology.
The tool, which is in the validation phase, analyzes patients' facial expressions during therapy sessions, generating various data and graphs for understanding emotions and comparing them with the results of the therapy. Self-Reporting Questionnaire, a test developed by the WHO to assess mental distress.
The 9th edition of the program, which is the largest entrepreneurship competition for young people in high school and technical education in the country, followed the online format of the previous two years in order to increase national coverage. The associate executive director of Inova Unicamp, Renato Lopes, presented the general data of the competition and celebrated the results obtained in 2022.
"This year we had 566 registered participants, divided into 133 teams from 7 states in Brazil plus the Federal District, with around 100 different schools from 73 cities. If we count, we don't have two schools per city on average, so it's a very spread out competition. This fills us with pride, seeing that we are affecting an audience beyond our region”, says Lopes.
The evaluation panel for the 2022 edition was made up of Fábio Pagani, serial entrepreneur, Rafael Davini, founder and CEO of FNO, and Roseane Ramos, founder and CEO of Match It and new president of the Unicamp Ventures group.
The six finalist teams that presented their pitches to the evaluation panel and to the audience also competed in another category, the Popular Vote. This category was chosen by online participants who evaluated the teams' presentations, consecrating the Política Fácil team, from the Poliedro school, as the winner.
Popular Vote Category
Student Sofia Sanchez, from Colégio Poliedro, in Campinas, presented the pitch for the project from the Política Fácil team and won the popular vote for best presentation. The team is also made up of students Amanda Garcia, Helena Blandy, Júlia de Oliveira and Marina Pedro, all from Poliedro de Campinas.
The team brought a gamification proposal to access impartial and updated information about political actors in the country. The Politics Fácil platform aims to concentrate filtered information in the same place, to reduce the scenario of polarization and fake news, and seeks to encourage young people aged 12 to 21 to learn about the proposals and agendas of politicians in their regions, in targeted language. to this target audience.
Inova Jovem Program
The Inova Jovem Program was created in 2014 by the Inova Unicamp Innovation Agency as a social impact entrepreneurship competition, which seeks to train students from technical schools and regular high schools across Brazil in business modeling and innovation. The objective of the competition is to spread entrepreneurship as a career option for these students, supporting them in transforming their ideas into businesses.
Sponsors of the 2022 edition: Polyhedron Education e NewCastle Languages.
Supporters of the program are: Educar Dpaschoal Foundation, Municipal Secretariat for Economic Development, Technology and Innovation, Comvest, Unicamp Entrance Exam, Samsung Ocean e Unicamp Entrepreneurial League
Article originally published on the Inova Unicamp Innovation Agency website.
