IBGE will award winning posters of the Brazilian round of the International Statstical Poster Competition
November 29, 2024 02h00 PM | Last Updated: December 03, 2024 09h51 AM
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) will award prizes to the three posters with the highest scores in each of the four categories (A, B, C and D) of the Brazilian Round of the International Statistical Poster Competition. The prizes, which range from R$2,000.00 to R$3,500.00 for teachers and from R$1,000.00 to R$2,500.00 for students, will be awarded at an event at Casa Brasil IBGE, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ). Registration for the competition is open until December 20, at the link available here.
The choice of topic is free and the poster should be simple and have a logical progression (contain an objective, an approach, the main results and conclusions). Information on the rules is available here. The results of the Brazilian round of the Competition will be announced on April 7, 2025, and the posters of the winners of the Brazilian round and the participating countries will be exhibited at the 65th ISI World Statistical Congress in The Hague, Netherlands, from October 5 to 9, 2025.
The competition is aimed at elementary school, high school and undergraduate students. Groups of 1 to 5 students can participate, guided by a teacher from basic education or higher education, who must register in one of four categories: A - Early Years of Primary School (students aged 9 to 11); B - Final Years of Primary School (students aged 12 to 15); C - Secondary School (students aged 16 to 18); and D - Undergraduate (undergraduate students of any age).
The poster awards will be granted to each category. The three best-rated posters in categories A, B, C and D will be ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, and the prize will be divided equally among the number of students enrolled in the group. Posters will be selected and judged by a national committee of researchers with experience in the area of Statistical Education, appointed by the Brazilian coordinators of the International Statistical Literacy Project.
The prize in cash will be divided into categories A, B and C as follows: 1st place: R$3,000.00 for the teacher and R$2,000.00 for the students; 2nd place: R$2,500.00 for the teacher and R$1,500.00 for the students; 3rd place: R$2,000.00 for the teacher and R$1,000.00 for the students. In category D, the prize will be divided into: 1st place: R$3,500.00 prize for the teacher and R$2,500.00 prize for the students; 2nd place: R$3,000.00 prize for the teacher and R$2,000.00 prize for the students; and 3rd place: R$2,500.00 prize for the teacher and R$1,500.00 prize for the students.
The Brazilian round of the Competition is carried out by the IBGE, through its National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), together with the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), through the Center for Innovation in Statistical Education (ICE) and aims at fostering statistical literacy within schools and universities.
The competition, which is part of the International Poster Competition and is promoted by the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP), is a project to encourage statistical literacy by the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), an association of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
Bianca Walsh, one of the Brazilian coordinators of the ISI International Statistical Literacy Project and a professor and researcher at the National School of Statistical Sciences (Ence), explains that posters promote the experience of living a statistical research process. “The competition, as it invites students to conduct research using primary or secondary data, in addition to promoting skills that are in the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), is essential for life, as it prepares people to think, make decisions and confront misinformation and all types of information pollution with data and evidence.”
“Promoting the Brazilian round of an international competition is an action that strengthens the IBGE as an influential player in the global network of official statistics producers and in the development of good practices in the field of Statistical Sciences. Moreover, it also contributes to fulfilling IBGE's institutional mission of training citizens able to read reality so that they can act in an educated manner about the places where they live,” pointed out Marcos Balster, Educational Affairs Manager and IBGE Educa Manager.
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Competition: Brazilian round of the International Statistical Poster Competition.
Registration: November 4 to December 20, 2024, through the link available here.
Announcement of the Brazilian Round winners: April 7, 2025.
Submission of the winning posters for the International Round: April 20, 2025.
Results: October 5 to 9, 2025, at the 65th ISI World Statistical Congress in The Hague, Netherlands.
