WHEN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS: RESEARCH AND EXTENSION IN FAVOR OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY

Abstract

The present work aimed to defend the collaborative spirit that must be present in actions that involve the public school and society, in which the strengthening of the technical-scientific protagonism of basic education students through research and extension will be increasingly desirable in likely times of denialism. In the context of the present work, it can be seen that volunteer fire brigades are non-profit associations that generally need public-private partnerships to maintain themselves. However, it is common for them to experience financial difficulties that affect their primary purpose of saving lives and material assets. A corporation of volunteer firefighters from a small town in the interior of the state of Santa Catarina asked a public school for help, and it was ready to assist those who come to us so often, starting the work presented here. It is costly to maintain a commercial digital system to manage a corporation. Thinking about the financial autonomy of the partner corporation and the transforming protagonism of the students, we started the development of a free system that served as a backdrop for this dialogic action.