Educational Technology at SESI: a comprehensive program for industry school
Since 2025, Somai brings the GO2BR program to SESI Regional Departments with full delivery, teacher training, pedagogical consulting, and an artificial intelligence platform in Portuguese.
The school that needs to speak the language of industry
SESI educates the children and workers of Brazilian industry. This creates a demand that not every school network faces: what is learned in the classroom must directly align with what happens on the factory floor. Mobility, sensing, computer vision, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence are no longer science fair topics; they've become industrial routine.
The BNCC Computação consolidated computational thinking, digital culture, and the digital world as mandatory learning. But most networks meet this requirement with assembly kits that quickly run out: the student assembles, programs in blocks, the device moves in a straight line, and the repertoire ends there. There's no real progression between elementary school final years and high school, nor a bridge to the technology that industry actually operates.
Each Regional Department faces this gap alone, with its own budget and team. What was missing was a ready-made program, field-tested, and replicable among the DRs.
The common challenge for the Regional Departments
- To offer educational technology that supports progression from elementary school final years to high school without changing platforms at each stage.
- To bring school content closer to real industry technology, not a simplified version of it.
- To prevent technology from becoming just a display: trained teachers, ready-made lesson plans, and recurring use in the academic calendar.
- To ensure regularized import, invoice, warranty, manufacturer's letter, and technical assistance within Brazil — requirements that any procurement process in the Industry System will demand.
- To have a solution already validated in other DRs, with technical certification, instead of buying a risky pilot.
It's not isolated equipment. It's a complete program
What SESI contracts has four components — and a single supplier is responsible for everything, from customs clearance of the technology to the first class taught.
The technology
GO2BR platform delivered configured, tested, and demonstrated in operation.
The lessons
Didactic sequences and lesson plans built for the program, aligned with the BNCC and SESI's educational pathway.
The consulting
Instructor training and technical-pedagogical support for the unit's team throughout the academic year.
The AI platform
Usage and development environment in Portuguese, with no language barrier between the class and the technology.
Why the GO2BR program
Market technology
The same platform used for industrial inspection, mapping, and academic research worldwide. SESI students operate technology that exists outside of school.
Real mobility
Locomotion that simulates animal movement, with the ability to overcome obstacles and follow varied paths — enough to create challenges that resemble real-world scenarios.
Robust structure
Platform designed for repeated use in a school environment, with natural and stable movements and a structure that withstands the daily classroom routine.
360° Perception
LiDAR, cameras, and SLAM navigation allow for work on mapping, obstacle avoidance, and autonomy using data captured by the student themselves.
Operational Autonomy
Long-lasting battery, with continuous operation sufficient for a full school shift.
Continuous Evolution
Over-the-air updates keep the platform current without hardware replacement, protecting the school's investment.
Progression on a Single Platform
The same foundation caters from the first contact—commands, routes, challenges—all the way to Python programming, ROS2, and original artificial intelligence projects.
The GO2BR program in class
Computational thinking and programming
From direct command to script. Sequence, repetition, conditional, and function become observable behavior of a physical body. A logic error doesn't appear as a console message—it appears as the device stopping in the wrong place.
Artificial intelligence and perception
LiDAR reading, object recognition, autonomous navigation, and obstacle avoidance. Students understand, by operating, the difference between a system that follows rules and a system that learns from data.
Applied physics and mathematics
Balance, center of mass, gait, torque, velocity, and acceleration. Angles, coordinates, and vectors become parameters that students change to observe the effect.
Industrial technology and Industry 4.0
Simulation of plant inspection, autonomous patrolling, data collection in hazardous environments, and area mapping. This is the most direct link between the SESI school and the industry that supports it.
Project and engineering
Open-ended problem challenges: mapping a section of the school, completing a route with obstacles, documenting, and defending the solution. Teamwork, deadlines, iteration, and technical presentation.
Ethics and digital culture
Automation and employment, privacy and image capture, limits of autonomous systems, algorithmic bias. The platform brings the discussion into concrete terms, with the real device in front of the class.
Technology without a trained teacher becomes a closet item
The program was designed around the teacher.
- Initial in-person training in operation, safety, and programming.
- Advanced track in programming and artificial intelligence applications.
- Ready-made lesson plans, with objectives, duration, materials, step-by-step instructions, and assessment.
- Ongoing pedagogical consulting to adapt the material to the reality of each unit.
Partnership with Regional Departments
Somai partners with SESI Regional Departments, with technical attestations issued by the units themselves, on technology education and maker culture projects.
This same relationship supports the development of didactic materials, lesson plans, and instructor training for SESI's technology education programs.
A single point of contact for everything
Exclusive and Authorized Supplier
Recognized by the manufacturer—with regularized import, invoice, warranty, and national technical assistance.
Technology, content, and training
Somai doesn't just deliver a box: it delivers a platform, a learning pathway, and a trained teacher, all under a single point of responsibility.
History in the Industry System
Partnership with SESI Regional Departments, with technical certifications, including didactic materials and instructor training for national educational technology programs.
Complete portfolio
Exclusive distribution of platforms that allow students to build their journey from first contact to advanced technology.
How a RD starts
Diagnosis
Meeting with the education coordination to understand stages covered, infrastructure, and calendar.
Solution Design
Definition of delivery scope, training load, and pedagogical consulting.
Documentation
Issuance of proposal, manufacturer's letter, technical certifications, and other documents required by the unit's contracting process.
Delivery and Training
Installation, testing, operational demonstration, and instructor training.
Follow-up
Technical and pedagogical support during the academic year, with didactic material in use.
Your Regional Department can start with the program already validated
The GO2BR program is already in the SESI System, with didactic material and trained instructors. It is not a pilot: it is a replicable program, with documentation ready for your contracting process.
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