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Article: Futura powers Brazil.(Brazil)(Canal Futura Channel)
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- ChildArt
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Canal (Channel) Futura, Brazil's educational television, has partnered with the ICAF since 2000 with the common goal of helping to educate children and promote creativity. Canal Futura's television programs reach more than fourteen million viewers throughout the vast country, many of them children.
The number of institutions that took part in the project reached 484 schools, and an estimated 29,000 students were involved in the schools' selection rounds. Canal Futura received the artwork of the school finalists, including 363 drawings in the drawing/painting category and 121 in the digital art category.
The schools received the ICAF lesson plan, ...