Open to students
Nameplate is growing its team.
Nameplate measures, forecasts and helps put to use the clean energy Brazil throws away. An interest survey is open to the students of the school where the project is based, followed by a three-week trial period before the team is confirmed.
This call is not open to the general public.
Participants must be enrolled at ECIT Henrique Fernandes de Farias, a state secondary school in Curral de Cima, Paraíba, Brazil. The conversations, the interest form and the work itself all run in Portuguese.
If that is you, the full invitation (duties, requirements and how to express interest) is on the Portuguese page. Questions about the process: vinicius.araujo@professor.pb.gov.br.
Ler a chamada completa (em português)The three areas
Engineering & Data
Builds the product: dashboard, data pipeline, forecasting model and physical prototype.
Design & Experience
Makes Nameplate look sharp, clear and recognisable in everything the project ships.
Communication, Pitch & Research
Tells the project’s story on verified facts: presents, writes, records, organises.
Each area is broad on purpose: everyone contributes to the product and to what the project needs to exist in public: pitching, design, writing, organising. The interest survey runs until September 5, 2026; a group conversation and a three-week trial period follow, and the new cycle starts in mid-October.
About the project
Every wind turbine carries a nameplate stating how much power it can generate. In practice it often delivers far less, because the grid operator orders generation to be cut when the network cannot carry it all. In 2025, curtailment amounted to 21.1% of Brazil's utility-scale wind and solar generation, an estimated R$ 11 billion of clean energy that never reached anyone.
Nameplate measures that gap, forecasts where and when surplus energy will occur 24 to 72 hours ahead, and demonstrates how to consume it through a physical prototype built in the school laboratory. The dashboard is public, the data is open, and the forecast's accuracy is published so anyone can check it.