Theater and dance at COLTEC-UFMG

    The routine of COLTEC-UFMG is also very busy and often stressful, a good way to get away a little of the hard routine is practicing some artistic activity to exercise the creative spirit in everyone. One way to do this is practicing theater or dance, which also exercises the body and the soul.



 
    The body of the UFMG Technical College is organizing a new arts project, which includes a group of theater and dance. The dance is still being discussed, but the theater began operating at 12:00 of Monday 31 August.





     The person who will give theater classes for the group is the former student Alice Mesquita, who is now studying at the theater course at UFMG. The dance group is still look for an instructor, but there are already some candidates. Classes are scheduled to take place every Tuesday from 12:00 to 13:15, but is not confirmed yet the date for the group to start.

“”I think that is a way of open new doors and looks for the students of the COLTEC”

Alice Mesquita

Scientific development at UFMG

Written by: Daniel Nunes; Giovani Lacerda; Sabrina Santos and Vanessa Paiva

The UFMG has a tradition in building and designing aircraft. The first was the glider CB-1 Seagull training, in the 60s, followed by the CB-2 glider Minuano, which was more advanced, and the powered sailplane CB-7 Vesper. Then came the ultralight high-CB-9 Curumim performance that is still used in testing classes in flight.

In the doctoral research, the CB-10 Triathlon were created, the CB-12 Curumim II, the CEA 308, which officially hit four world records for speed and aerobatic aircraft CEA-309 Mehari.

The aircraft was named shortfin mako, inspired by a kind of aggressive, fast-moving shark. It was being developed since 2011 and completely designed on the computer. The structure is the first in Brazil with primary structure made entirely from carbon fiber. Because of this, it is lightweight, rigid and resistant.

Built and designed by students of master's and undergraduate UFMG, supervised by Paul Iscold, the shortfin mako made its first flight at the end of last year, and has now been pushed to the limit. The result? Five world records beaten:

Speed route 3 km with restricted elevation: 521.08 km / h

Previous record: 466.83 km / h

Speed route of 15 km: 511.19 km / h

Previous record: 455.8 km / h

Speed closed 100km route: 490.14 km / h

Previous record: 389.6 km / h

Speed closed 500 km course: 493.74 km / h

Previous record: 387.4 km / h

Time to reach 3,000 m above sea level: 2 minutes and 26/2

Previous record: three minutes and eight seconds

Video: https://vimeo.com/112598730

In addiction all the university, more specifically the engineering school, uses the tecnology not just for competitions but for social projects too. An exemple of this is the “Expoengenharia” a fair with many social initiatives. One of the most significant initiatives of this is the Equalize Project, where voluntary classes for pre-university exam are given for low-income students in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte. Another project is Paramec that is dedicated to designing wheelchairs , appliances and other low -cost solutions for disabled people .

As Paramec, the Solidarity Engineering is a committee that develops charitable actions. The members make visits to care centers and events as "The Street Store" and a solidary scavenger hunt. The first consists of a store in the open where clothes, accessories and shoes are offered for free to homeless people. In the second case, the freshman of class collect food and hygiene items for donation.

    The project “Sistemas Elétricos Experimentais” (Selex) is an extension of the initiative of Systems Engineering. Result of a partnership between the School of Engineering and the Court of Minas Gerais, the Selex offers to young lawbreakers cultural workshops, computing and manufacture of electronic products.

Places to date someone at UFMG

There is a thing that we are ever felling and we love to fell. What is it? Love. Not a simple love, but a love and a relationship with some other person. That is the moment when most of the people want calm and a lot of silence. So we select those places to help you in this difficult choice;

 Written by Kaique Roberto, Samuel Torres e Vinícius Araújo

Senta & Toca

 Music is a huge part of our daily life. It has the power to influence on people’s humor and keep up with all age ranges. Certainly, it’s possible to fit, in every situation of our daily life, at least one song that describes our emotional states, or maybe, one that we just simply identify with.

  Taking into consideration the environment that becomes happy and relaxed, due to the music, some students of COLTEC/UFMG come up with “Senta & Toca”. It is a monthly event that has for it’s principles to encourage and give the opportunity to people who like to sing and play instruments or even dance. “Senta & Toca” happens on Thursdays at COLTEC’s cafeteria on students and employees lunch break. It is free and allows anyone who wants to make music to participate.

  “Senta & Toca” first started as Coltequinta, it was a space for students where they showed all kinds of art, not just music. Over time, Coltequinta started to get a little discouraged and eventually stopped. In 2008, the guild Melão, brought back the event, this time, however, with a different name and also the proposal: a space for music. At that time, the school had many bands that have played there in festivals, and Senta & Toca made the frequency increase.

   Nowadays, the event takes place once a month, Thursdays. Organized by the current management of the student body, it brings together students from all years and employees in an atmosphere of relaxation and mood.

The last Senta e Toca (2012)

The last Senta e Toca (2011)

Vídeo on YouTube:

JÉSSICA - SENTA E TOCA - COLTEC, 03-03-2011

Text written by Gabriel Rocha, Marcus Vinícius, Mariana Pio and Sarah Ruas

Environmental Education a Comparison of Models

Today, just a few of schools give to their students a opportunity to share knowledge that 

Coltec does. In the past few years a partnership of Coltec with schools in Argentina and 

Sweden started a exchange of people and information among those places. There are groups

 of students that share common ideas and, being oriented by a teacher they spend their 

time and energy collecting information to make the experience worth their sacrifices. 

We interviewed a group whose project is to analyze how the environmental education

 influences on the developing of environmental awareness. 

 
They started reading some bibliographies about the theme and they did a comparison of 

education model applied on Brazil and the ones that are applied in Sweden. Their first 

result is a panorama. Here in Brazil there's a lot of speech about environmental awareness 

but the action from the people and from the government is too small, on the other hand 

in Sweden we see that they say a lot but there's also a lot of action and a mass awareness 

what makes of them one of the cleanest countries in the world. 

 

 

 


 
The structure of their questionnaires and methodology is not finished yet, because they will

hear some ideas from the Swedish teachers and students to make the project as comprehensive as possible. 

Artistic expression of students from UFMG

            Art is a thing that is present in our lives. Moreover, art is a form of human expression. It can be written, sung, painted or danced. In Brazil, especially, there is a dance form, it is called "forró" and it can be practiced for anyone. With a little practice and dedication, it can be improved and turned into a beautiful presentation.

photo by PICADEIRRÓ

photo by PICADEIRRÓ

    UFMG’s students organize an event where everyone can express the feelings through dance, by dancing a good forró. It is an open event and it is also very cool, where everyone can unwind and have fun. If you want to participate of this form of art, you just have to go to the UFMG’S service square on all Thursdays. 






    This event starts at 6:00 pm and it finishes at 8:30 pm. However, this time can be a little longer. This form of art is very good because it is a cultural event, where many people participate, including teachers, students, dancers and more.

photo by PICADEIRRÓ

Text written by Alba Raquel, Gabriel Leite and Willar Cunha.

COLTEC, a school for change

Written by Daniel Nunes, Giovani Lacerda, Sabrina Santos and Vanessa Paiva

The COLTEC is one of the federal technical schools present in the state of Minas Gerais and one of the first places in the ranking of the best public schools in Brazil. With differentiated teaching and opportunities to the students, it has become a national prominence.

The Coltec offers exchanges for their students to Argentina and Sweden , also offers extensive courses , excellent technical education, as well as an extensive capacity for personal and professional development without dependencies. This year, for example, in May, students went to Sweden to spend a period of fifteen days to know the local culture, improve English proficiency and meet new people. After the Swedes came to the house of our students and tried the culinary delights of Minas and receptivity that every Brazilian has.

During the holiday period, some students of Spanish COLTEC had the opportunity to spend forty-five days in Cordoba, Argentina. And now, we, students of the college, are having the pleasure of living with Argentine students in our day -to- day.

Among these two groups we met, we realized behavioral and physical differences between them, the Swedes are tall, white and mostly made up of blond, straight hair and blue or light green eyes. They are more serious and observers, they do not interact much, in the case of the Argentineans what we could see is that they are more similar to Brazilians in behavior, most cheerful, outgoing and interactive, but among them there is little diversity as our people, but still does not reach the standards of the Swedes.

COLTEC under construction

        The differential COLTEC is that the student leaves the school has formed to work and at the same time prepared for an academic life. These two teams are extremely important because they are the object of desire of the vast majority of young people.

The school also helps train students for life as it is a space where people of different family situations, ethnicities and sexual orientations live side by side. Living with this "different" is that it allows many students to accept , respect and sympathize "with the other". This experience is of utmost importance, being one of the main reasons that put COLTEC as a reference school.

        This indirect method of school integration is that it allows, in most cases, a correction to occur in some concepts that are typical of Brazilian society, concepts that are late to the present day. This entire process, which has great incentive for teachers and school management is what makes the COLTEC has a unique and very innovative school project .