universities_visit.json

universities_visit.json

[
  {
    "year": 2009,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Faculdade De Tecnologia Senai Anchieta (SENAI-SP)",
    "url": null,
    "description": "Studied Mechatronics Technician, graduated in 2009. At that time, the institution was transitioning from a Technical School to a University, granting us access to new labs and an upgraded library with a wealth of new books."
  },
  {
    "year": 2007,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo (FATEC-SP)",
    "url": null,
    "description": "Started a technologist degree in Mechanics in 2007 but dropped out after three semesters to join another university."
  },
  {
    "year": 2009,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (IFSP)",
    "url": null,
    "description": "Began a technologist degree in Industrial Automation (Mechatronics) in 2009 but dropped out after five semesters to pursue a programming career."
  },
  {
    "year": 2014,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Centro Universitário SENAC (SENAC-SP)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/apple-developer-academy/",
    "description": "Participated in 2014 in the Apple Developer Academy Program (formerly BEPiD)."
  },
  {
    "year": 2016,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/startup-weekend-unifei",
    "description": "Visited in 2016 to attend the Startup Weekend."
  },
  {
    "year": 2016,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/arduino-day-ufabc-2017",
    "description": "Visited in 2016 to deliver a talk on UFABC Arduino Day about the Internet of Things."
  },
  {
    "year": 2016,
    "country_flag": "🇺🇸",
    "country_name": "United States",
    "university_name": "Stanford and UC Berkeley",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/hackathon-globo-2016/",
    "description": "Visited in 2016 as part of our Hackathon Prize. We enjoyed a 10-day trip to San Francisco, California, including visits to companies like Apple, Google, Yahoo, and Twitter, along with guided campus tours by professors from Stanford and UC Berkeley."
  },
  {
    "year": 2017,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie",
    "url": null,
    "description": "Visited in 2017 to attend a CocoaHeads Meetup."
  },
  {
    "year": 2017,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Faculdade Impacta de Tecnologia (Impacta)",
    "url": "https://speakerdeck.com/ezefranca/mobile-day-impacta-2017-desenvolvendo-para-apple-watch",
    "description": "Visited in 2017 to deliver a talk at Mobile Day Impacta on developing for Apple Watch."
  },
  {
    "year": 2018,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Faculty of Medicine (HCFMUSP)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/hackathon-hcfmusp/",
    "description": "Visited in 2018 to participate in the HCFMUSP Hackathon."
  },
  {
    "year": 2018,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Faculdade de Informática e Administração Paulista (FIAP)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/startup-one-fiap/",
    "description": "Graduated in 2018 from this university."
  },
  {
    "year": 2019,
    "country_flag": "🇺🇸",
    "country_name": "United States",
    "university_name": "Babson College",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/babson-college/",
    "description": "Attended the summer Entrepreneurship course, Babson Build, in 2019 on a scholarship."
  },
  {
    "year": 2019,
    "country_flag": "🇺🇸",
    "country_name": "United States",
    "university_name": "MIT",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/cocoaheads-boston/",
    "description": "Visited in 2019 to attend a CocoaHeads Meetup and toured the campus."
  },
  {
    "year": 2022,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "university_name": "Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/graduate-masters-degree/",
    "description": "Enrolled in a master's program in 2020 and graduated with a degree in Digital Games Development in 2022."
  },
  {
    "year": 2022,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "university_name": "Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/hackathon-lisbon-eit/",
    "description": "Visited the Alameda Campus in 2022 for the Hackathon Urban Mobility (EIT) Lisbon."
  },
  {
    "year": 2023,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "university_name": "Universidade Europeia (IADE)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/games-for-good-2023/",
    "description": "Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Games Development. First visited in 2023 for the Games for Good Gamejam."
  },
  {
    "year": 2023,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "university_name": "Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave (IPCA)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/visiting-2ai-center-ipca-barcelos/",
    "description": "As part of the Ph.D. program (taught in partnership with IPCA), visited the professors and lab in Barcelos in 2023."
  },
  {
    "year": 2024,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "university_name": "Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPLeiria)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/global-game-jam-2024/",
    "description": "First visited in January 2024 as part of the jury for the Global Game Jam 2024 and later for the VideoJogos 2024 Conference."
  },
  {
    "year": 2024,
    "country_flag": "🇲🇹",
    "country_name": "Malta",
    "university_name": "University of Malta (UM)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/international-summer-school-on-ai-and-games/",
    "description": "Attended the 6th International Summer School on AI and Games on 2024 Summer."
  },
  {
    "year": 2024,
    "country_flag": "🇩🇰",
    "country_name": "Denmark",
    "university_name": "Aalborg University (AAU)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/sustainable-and-digital-transformation-aalborg-university/",
    "description": "Completed a Ph.D.-level course on Sustainable and Digital Transformation in 2024."
  }
]