The digital platform "Raízes Conectadas", developed in a school within a settlement of theMovement of Rural Workers and Landless FarmersThe Landless Workers Movement (MST) placed students among the top performers in the 2nd National Artificial Intelligence Olympiad, which had over 900,000 participants.
The tool was developed at the Lucas Meireles Alves State Full-Time Time Center, located in the 17 de Abril Settlement, in the rural area of Teresina, Piauí. Elaborated by a group of five students and a teacher, it connects family farmers and agroecology practitioners with the final consumer, primarily public school students.
Marciely da Silva, one of the award-winning students at the National AI Olympiad, in an interview with the program...Text: Good Living ConversationThe text states that the work began in Piauí and already has partnerships established for the state of Paraíba. "Any farmer can access our website."
"To go to Singapore, we went through several stages of the Seduckathon," Silva continues. The Seduckathon was a marathon focused on innovation promoted by the State Secretariat of Education of Piauí, which awarded the students responsible for the Raiz Conectada platform with a technological exchange trip to Singapore, held in January 2026.
Kauã Feitosa was one of the students who participated in the exchange. "I didn't even know where it was, and it's a very developed country. Technology and education are at the top. We went there not only to learn but also to study. We spent a month studying, learning about technology, learning about the culture, an incredible experience."
Feitosa explains that the project emerged from the demand to support farmers in the settlement and ensure healthy food for the school. "We realized that, beyond our schools, it took a long time to get fresh and healthy food. Family farmers in our settlement grew and planted a lot of food, which sometimes went bad because they had nowhere to sell it. That's when we thought and created a bridge between schools and family farmers."
Although the system doesn't yet have national coverage, the young person highlights that this is an ambition of the project, which already has an app in development.
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