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Although the programming market is on the rise, there are still few courses for training these professionals. Instituto Ramacrisna invests in qualification and trains new programmers.
With each passing day, the demand for creating websites and applications for institutions and companies grows. If your company doesn’t have one yet, you’ve probably already considered this possibility. To get these projects out of the realm of ideas, programmers are critical in developing a functional website or application.
And that market is doing really, really well. A survey by Brasscom showed that more than half of Brazilian companies already invest in security, artificial intelligence, public cloud, modernization of software management systems and customer experience
For organizations, these investments help increase productivity, reduce costs, improve customer relationships and improve new products. The result is that there is a huge demand for programming professionals. In 2021 alone, the number of new vacancies in the area grew 300% compared to 2020.
But a major complaint of companies is that there is a lack of qualified professionals for the vacancies, even with high salaries in the area. Currently, many programming professionals find only short courses, which try to fill the deficit of workers. On the other hand, within faculties, there is a gap between what the student learns in the classroom and what companies need.
Due to this gap between supply and demand, the Instituto Ramacrisna created a new professional qualification course in the programming area. Know the differences.
The “Net Girls” project offers several activities to teenagers to enhance education in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), and prepare girls for the challenges of the technological era in a predominantly male area, in addition to developing socialization actions.
In the Technology and Programming activities, the girls learn the processes of application development, incorporation of interfaces and the user experience on platforms and mobile devices. With this, students learn the programming language to create applications, with forms and interactive interfaces, data storage and communication with other devices.
Throughout the project, the girls are also introduced to female references in the area of technology, which serve as examples and inspiration and, at the end of the project, the students develop a mobile application.
In addition to Net Girls, Ramacrisna also offers the “Educational Robotics Activity” for students at CAER – Ramacrisna Educational Support Center. In it, children and teenagers can invent, program, assemble and move a little robot. In this way, they exercise logical reasoning, develop collaborative work, share data and promote interdisciplinarity.
Through programmable kits, software, breadboards, wires, sensors, boards and motors, students do not even suspect, but they start an important turning point for the future. By becoming interested in the study of programming, this bunch of girls prepares the ground for entering the contemporary job market, which increasingly demands such skills.
The coordinator of FabLab Ramacrisna, Fábio Marques, explains that the area of programming and development requires a lot of logical reasoning and mathematical knowledge, in addition to theoretical and technical knowledge in the area. This causes many people to give up before they even try.
“Many people consider the programming area difficult to learn, so our course is different from others”, he says. “In our course we teach programming techniques in blocks, where the student learns to program lego robots and to develop mobile applications, using techniques of logical reasoning and programming in a simple, fun and effective way. The student sees that programming is not difficult”, he details.
FabLab is an innovation laboratory created to stimulate creativity and knowledge through practice, turning ideas into reality. The initiative aims to promote the professional qualification of young people and adults.
In addition, it promotes the digital inclusion of children and adolescents through the learning of programming and basic and intermediate knowledge in technology. With this, Ramacrisna wants to take inclusion, innovation and cutting-edge technology across regional, social and economic boundaries.
For the maintenance and expansion of FabLab projects, we need the contribution of partner companies. In addition to contributing to the improvement of the lives of young people in situations of social vulnerability, supporting Ramacrisna is a way of investing in the training of good professionals for the job market.
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