EDUConnect - Education Trek in The Silicon Valley – Sep 26-27, 2014

       EDUConnect participants with Prof. Martin Carnoy, at the opening of the Education Trek:

    Participants with Betsy Corcoran, founder and CEO of EdSurge:   Participants with Scott Morgan, founder and CEO of Education Pioneers:

EDUConnect was a 2-day education-themed trek sponsored by the Lemann Center at Stanford. On Sept. 26th-27th, 25 Brazilian graduate students from some of the top universities in the US (Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Berkeley, and Caltech) gathered in the Silicon Valley to debate the future of education in Brazil, and visit schools, technology companies, start-ups and venture capital firms. The event's participants also had the opportunity to debate relevant topics on Brazilian education with Prof. Martin Carnoy, Prof. David Plank, and Prof. Paulo Blikstein.