Enrollment open for International Statistical Poster Competition
November 05, 2024 02h00 PM | Last Updated: November 05, 2024 03h48 PM
Aiming at promoting the statistical literacy in schools and universities, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), by means of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), and the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), by means of the Innovation Center on Statistical Education (ICE), are sponsoring the Brazilian round of the International Statistical Poster Competition. Enrollment is free of charge and can be made in the period from November 4 to December 20 on link.
The announcement of the winners of the Brazilian Round will be on April 7, 2025 in an event at Casa Brasil IBGE. The winning posters of the Brazilian round, as well as of the participating countries, will be exhibited in the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague, Netherlands, on October 5-9, 2025.
The competition aims at students of Primary Education, Secondary Education and Graduation. Groups between 1 and 5 students may apply, mentored by a teacher of either Basic Education or Higher Education, who will enroll them. The theme of the competition is free and the poster should be simple and have a logical progression (it should contain an objective, an approach, the major results and the conclusions). Every information concerning the regulation is available here.
The competition, which is part of the International Statistical Poster Competition and is promoted by the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP), is a project to encourage the statistical literacy from the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), an association of the Internacional Statistical Institute (ISI).
Bianca Walsh, one of the Brazilian coordinators of ISI´s ISLP and an ENCE´s teacher and researcher, explains that posters promote the experience of living a statistical survey. Inasmuch it invites students to do an investigation using either primary or secondary data, as well as it promotes skills that are in the National Curricular Common Base (BNCC), the competition is key for life, as it makes people think, take a decision and challenge misinformation and every type of information pollution with data and evidences."
"Promoting the Brazilian round of an international competition is an action that strengthens the IBGE as an influential actor in the global network of official statistics producers and in the development of good practices in the field of Statistical Sciences. On top of this, it also helps to fulfill the IBGE´s institutional mission of shaping citizens who know how to read the reality in order to wittingly act on the places they live," pointed out Marcos Balster, Manager of Education Affairs and Manager of IBGE Educa.
Balster explains that the Brazilian round of the competition is supported by Casa Brasil IBGE, a space of memory and technology that shows knowledge about Brazil produced by the IBGE, helping to teach this knowledge with areas dedicated to ENCE and IBGEduca.
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Competition: Brazilian Round of the International Statistical Poster Competition.
Enrollment: From November 4 to December 20, 2024 through link.
Announcement of the winners of the Brazilian Round: April 7, 2025.
Results: October 5-9, 2025 in the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague, Netherlands.
