Awards and Distinctions

2017
Best Master’s Dissertation Award 📄
Brazilian Congress on Informatics in Education (CBIE-2017)
CBIE is the main Brazilian event in Informatics and Education research and it is organized by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
Dissertation Title: DuinoBlocks4Kids: Using Free Technology and Low-Cost Materials for the Exercise of Computational Thinking in Primary School via Programming and Educational Robotics.

2018
Fourth position in the First Ibero-American Contest of Educational Technologies for Learning 📄
XLIV Latin American Conference on Informatics e XIII Latin American Conference On Learning Technologies (CLEI-LACLO-2018).
Title: DuinoBlocks4Kids: Using Free Technology and Low-Cost Materials for the Exercise of Computational Thinking in Primary School via Programming and Educational Robotics.

2023
Top 5% position of all research outputs by Altmetric 📄
Altmetric (“Altmetric […] mission is to broaden and deepen [the] understanding of the value of research and its influence on people and communities.” )
Article Title: AI from Concrete to Abstract - demystifying artificial intelligence to the general public (AI & Society, 2021)

2017
Bronze Medal of Gratitude Award - Significant services rendered 📄
Brazilian Scouts Association (UEB)

2014
Successfully ranked 4th place in the Public Teacher Exam for Basic, Technical, and Technological Education 📄
Colégio Militar do Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
Discipline: Informatics