Applying a Supply Chain and Distribution-focused Business Game to High School Students
Description: The education process in Brazil according to a report by UNICEF (2013) has shown constant changes over the last decades. With the restructuring of the curriculum and in order to provide better adaptation in all areas, the mode of presentation of knowledge has been changed, and new techniques have emerged to stimulate student interaction in the learning process. An alternative has been the use of business games in the teaching-learning process. Within this context, the project aims to present basic concepts related to supply chain and distribution to high school students through a theoretical and interactive based didactic game developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In addition to offering high school students extra-class content related to the operation of a product supply chain, the aim is to spread the word about UFSC and its courses, encouraging higher education in engineering. Scholarship holders will actively participate in all stages of the project, with the formulation of the interactive game, its logic and effects on the real scenarios of the supply and distribution chain, with the transfer of knowledge to high school students, organization of presentations with schools. The project aims to reach at least 150 high school students from different schools in Joinville.
Teachers:
- Francielly Hedler Staudt (coordinator)
Students:
- Matheus Mikley
- Carlos Eugênio de Mello Shinzato
- João Antonio Assis
