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With the National Classification in the FIRST LEGO League Challenge, Leon's team had their innovation project, HealthTech, featured in the largest Brazilian abstract booklet for STEM projects. The booklet has reached more than 100,000 professionals, students, and enthusiasts.
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Since childhood, Leon has seized every opportunity, created access, and allowed himself to experience diverse realities!
Leon has been participating in Northeastern cultural presentations and social projects since chilhood!
He grew up immersed in volunteering and helped underserved communities supported by his Catholic school!
Since elementary school, he participates in refined events singing, and playing flute, and guittar!
Did you know that Leon was part of Brazil's largest and awarded robotics league?
Inspired by his mother, he began attending and speaking at educational and STEM workshops!
Since 2022, he has been volunteering for competitions that have given him access to the world!
Raised solely by his mother, grandmother, aunts, and cousins, Leon never forgot the tireless steps his family took to overcome the poverty of the Northeast Sertão. Now in better conditions, he voluntarily gives back all the creative influence he had!
Leon is descended from Indigenous and Black peoples who led their freedom from monarchical grasp. His grandmother is recognized as the Centenarian Matriarch of the Black Baianas—granted to a few Black women, representing Afro-Brazilian culture, a title that reinforces the plurality, leadership, and love for the community that inspire Leon!
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Leon led the first robotics team to become champions and qualify at the National level in Feira de Santana, the second largest city in Bahia!
websiteLeon led and founded the first Formula 1 In Schools team in the state of Bahia and qualified the team for the major qualifying stages!
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For Leon, volunteering is a way to put oneself in another’s shoes, to change something that needs transformation, and to work on oneself while positively influencing others!
"Although the above quote is not my own, it guides me in any volunteer work, creation, travel, and new beginnings. For me, from the moment we are leaders or simply passionate about changing our realities, we must first view the world differently in order to make it a better place!"