universities_visit.json

universities_visit.json

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  {
    "year": 2007,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo (FATEC-SP)",
    "url": null,
    "university_url": "https://www.cps.sp.gov.br/fatec/",
    "description": "Enrolled in 2007 in a technologist degree in Mechanics; left after three semesters to join another university."
  },
  {
    "year": 2009,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Faculdade De Tecnologia Senai Anchieta (SENAI-SP)",
    "url": null,
    "university_url": "https://sp.senai.br/unidade/anchieta/",
    "description": "Graduated in 2009 as a Mechatronics Technician during the institution’s transition to a university model."
  },
  {
    "year": 2009,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (IFSP)",
    "url": null,
    "university_url": "https://www.ifsp.edu.br/",
    "description": "Enrolled in 2009 in Industrial Automation (Mechatronics); left after five semesters to pursue a programming career."
  },
  {
    "year": 2014,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Centro Universitário SENAC (SENAC-SP)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/apple-developer-academy/",
    "university_url": "https://www.sp.senac.br/",
    "description": "Visited in 2014 to participate in the Apple Developer Academy (formerly BEPiD)."
  },
  {
    "year": 2016,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "Itajubá",
    "university_name": "Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/startup-weekend-unifei",
    "university_url": "https://unifei.edu.br/",
    "description": "Visited in 2016 to attend Startup Weekend."
  },
  {
    "year": 2016,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "Santo André",
    "university_name": "Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/arduino-day-ufabc-2017",
    "university_url": "https://www.ufabc.edu.br/",
    "description": "Visited in 2016 to deliver an Arduino Day talk on Internet of Things."
  },
  {
    "year": 2016,
    "country_flag": "🇺🇸",
    "country_name": "United States",
    "city": "Stanford, CA",
    "university_name": "Stanford University",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/hackathon-globo-2016/",
    "university_url": "https://www.stanford.edu/",
    "description": "Visited in 2016 for a campus tour as part of a 10-day Bay Area trip awarded by a hackathon prize (same trip as UC Berkeley)."
  },
  {
    "year": 2016,
    "country_flag": "🇺🇸",
    "country_name": "United States",
    "city": "Berkeley, CA",
    "university_name": "University of California, Berkeley",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/hackathon-globo-2016/",
    "university_url": "https://www.berkeley.edu/",
    "description": "Visited in 2016 for a campus tour during the same hackathon prize trip to the Bay Area (also visited Stanford and several tech companies)."
  },
  {
    "year": 2017,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie",
    "url": null,
    "university_url": "https://www.mackenzie.br/",
    "description": "Visited in 2017 to attend a CocoaHeads meetup."
  },
  {
    "year": 2017,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Faculdade Impacta de Tecnologia (Impacta)",
    "url": "https://speakerdeck.com/ezefranca/mobile-day-impacta-2017-desenvolvendo-para-apple-watch",
    "university_url": "https://www.impacta.edu.br/",
    "description": "Visited in 2017 to deliver a talk at Mobile Day Impacta on developing for Apple Watch."
  },
  {
    "year": 2018,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Universidade de São Paulo (USP) — Faculty of Medicine (HCFMUSP)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/hackathon-hcfmusp/",
    "university_url": "https://www.fm.usp.br/",
    "description": "Visited in 2018 to participate in the HCFMUSP Hackathon."
  },
  {
    "year": 2018,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Faculdade de Informática e Administração Paulista (FIAP)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/startup-one-fiap/",
    "university_url": "https://www.fiap.com.br/",
    "description": "Graduated in 2018 (Bachelor of Technology in Systems Analysis and Development)."
  },
  {
    "year": 2019,
    "country_flag": "🇺🇸",
    "country_name": "United States",
    "city": "Wellesley, MA",
    "university_name": "Babson College",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/babson-college/",
    "university_url": "https://www.babson.edu/",
    "description": "Visited in 2019 to attend the Babson Build summer entrepreneurship program on scholarship."
  },
  {
    "year": 2019,
    "country_flag": "🇺🇸",
    "country_name": "United States",
    "city": "Cambridge, MA",
    "university_name": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/cocoaheads-boston/",
    "university_url": "https://web.mit.edu/",
    "description": "Visited in 2019 for a CocoaHeads Boston meetup and campus tour."
  },
  {
    "year": 2022,
    "country_flag": "🇧🇷",
    "country_name": "Brazil",
    "city": "São Paulo",
    "university_name": "Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/graduate-masters-degree/",
    "university_url": "https://www.pucsp.br/",
    "description": "Enrolled in 2020; graduated in 2022 with a Master’s in Digital Games Development."
  },
  {
    "year": 2022,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "city": "Lisbon",
    "university_name": "Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/hackathon-lisbon-eit/",
    "university_url": "https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/",
    "description": "Visited in 2022 to participate in the EIT Urban Mobility Hackathon (Alameda campus)."
  },
  {
    "year": 2023,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "city": "Lisbon",
    "university_name": "Universidade Europeia (IADE)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/games-for-good-2023/",
    "university_url": "https://www.iade.europeia.pt/",
    "description": "First visited in 2023 for the Games for Good Game Jam; pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Games Development (ongoing)."
  },
  {
    "year": 2023,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "city": "Barcelos",
    "university_name": "Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave (IPCA)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/visiting-2ai-center-ipca-barcelos/",
    "university_url": "https://www.ipca.pt/",
    "description": "Visited in 2023 to meet professors and the 2Ai lab as part of the joint Ph.D. program."
  },
  {
    "year": 2024,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "city": "Leiria",
    "university_name": "Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPLeiria)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/global-game-jam-2024/",
    "university_url": "https://www.ipleiria.pt/",
    "description": "Visited in 2024 to serve as Global Game Jam jury and later for the Videojogos 2024 Conference."
  },
  {
    "year": 2024,
    "country_flag": "🇲🇹",
    "country_name": "Malta",
    "city": "Msida",
    "university_name": "University of Malta (UM)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/international-summer-school-on-ai-and-games/",
    "university_url": "https://www.um.edu.mt/",
    "description": "Visited in summer 2024 to attend the 6th International Summer School on AI and Games."
  },
  {
    "year": 2024,
    "country_flag": "🇩🇰",
    "country_name": "Denmark",
    "city": "Aalborg",
    "university_name": "Aalborg University (AAU)",
    "url": "https://ezefranca.com/news/sustainable-and-digital-transformation-aalborg-university/",
    "university_url": "https://www.aau.dk/",
    "description": "Visited in 2024 to complete a Ph.D.-level course on Sustainable and Digital Transformation."
  },
  {
    "year": 2025,
    "country_flag": "🇵🇹",
    "country_name": "Portugal",
    "city": "Lisbon",
    "university_name": "Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa",
    "url": null,
    "university_url": "https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/",
    "description": "Visited in 2025 during the IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG)."
  },
  {
    "year": 2025,
    "country_flag": "🇬🇧",
    "country_name": "United Kingdom",
    "city": "Manchester",
    "university_name": "Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)",
    "url": null,
    "university_url": "https://www.mmu.ac.uk/",
    "description": "Visited in 2025 for SEGAH."
  }
]