The awards ceremony of the Olimpiadas del Semáforo 2022 took place at the headquarters of Fundación Paraguaya.

The first place was obtained by the Colegio Nacional San Pablo de Jhugua Rivas, São Paulo, from the department of Concepción, which has as a prize a trip to Rio de Janeiro for the entire team. Second place went to the Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, from Cambyreta, department of Itapúa, which won a trip to Bonito Brazil for the entire team; and the third place went to the  Centro Educativo Departamental Municipal, Carlos Pastore from J. Augusto Saldivar city, from the Central department, who won a trip to Itaipulandia for the entire team.

The event was attended by authorities from Fundación Paraguaya, the Ministry of Education and Sciences (MEC) with Norma Rolandi as its representative, head of the Directorate of Third Cycle of Basic and Middle School Education; from the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development (MADES, for its acronym in Spanish), with Alicia Benítez as its representative, from the Environmental Management Department; and Hidrovías do Brasil, with Daniel Ramos, Sustainability Manager, and Bianca Riccio.

This year, 13,073 students signed up and 690 teams participated in the Olympics, reaching 33 locations in 10 departments.

The teams had to complete a total of 20 tasks, including digital tasks that were developed in their educational and family communities, articulated with the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 plan, and also with the poverty stoplight indicators.

The “Olimpiadas del Semáforo” is an educational program based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs), and consists of a youth competition between schools that seek to influence each SDG both in their homes and in their communities, becoming agents of positive change.

The program manages to connect and teach students about personal development and entrepreneurship, and provides tools that add to Paraguayan education, in addition to preparing young people, basically, for their first job from their cell phones or computers.

This year we reached the goal of 13,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 18, with which we have already passed the barrier of 64,000 students and teachers participating in these Olympics since its creation in 2014. This year, the competition has the support of Hidrovías Do Brazil, the MEC (Ministry of Education and Sciences) and the MADES (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development).