This book is about Moleque de Idéias, a unique software company and a place to be for both adults and children. They work and learn together since 1996 in many projects and teach each other. Moleque de Idéias is situated at Rua Noronha Torrezão 60 - Santa Rosa Niterói - RJ, Brazil

1. THE MOLEQUE BOOK
THE FIRST 19 YEARS

2. Moleque de Idéias
This book is about Moleque
de Idéias, a unique software
company and a place to be
for both adults and
children.
They work and learn
together since 1996 in many
projects and teach each
other.
Moleque de Idéias is
situated at Rua Noronha
Torrezão 60 - Santa Rosa
Niterói - RJ, Brazil

3. Moleque de Idéias is a learning space, an environment
of different activities and possibilities. It's not a school, in
the sense that nobody is a teacher or a student, but
learners that work together. It's also a software company

4. As a software company, Moleque develops and
maintains e-commerce systems, systems to manage tests
online, systems of quality to the building industry and
network platforms for different clients.

5. It is also a place for children since they are 4 years old,
to develop their own ideas, and Moleque has worked with
more than 1 500 children until today, some for more then
10 years. And it is also a place to gather the community to
develop ideas to foster sustainability.

6. What is Moleque? (Chapter 1)
"We believe that the separation between
doing - learning - sharing is artificial and that it
creates inefficiency, is unnecessary and
inhumane" says one of the three founders
Nilton Lessa.
In the organization, projects with children,
adolescents and adults are accepted as valid
and desirable. Not distinguishing by age,
speciality or gender. Innovative from
conception to the form of operation, Moleque
de Idéias survives financially through
servicing and creating products and does not
have public or private sponsorship. The
business is working well and has worked well
for 19 years.
This chapter defines many of the thoughts
of Moleque founders Leila Pais de Miranda,
Nilton Lessa and Luis Polho Pacheco.

7. Moleque philosophy (Chapter 2)
This chapter contains thoughts on the
philosophy and communication and learning of
Moleque founders Leila Pais de Miranda, Nilton
Lessa and Luis Polho Pacheco. It also explais
how the brazilian press has covered Moleque
activities over the years

8. Projects and activities (Chapter 3)
Here is the story of how Moleque has
developed professional software for clients and
how computers are used with the kids and what
activities happen continually such as robotics,
programming, games, graphics, music and film
projects. Other subtitles are: Food, Sustainability,
Urban Agriculture, Chemistry and Electronics
Labs.
Important is also the connection with the
Maker Movement and Hangouts activities.

9. Who is Moleque? (Chapters 4 and 5)
The Moleque founders, crew and people close
to Moleque are presented with their stories and
images.

10. Who are the Kids? (Chapter 6)
Chapter 6 concentrates on results with the kids
and some of the stories with kids over the years

11. Results with the kids (Chapter 7)
Since 1996 Moleque de Ideias has been
intensively writing, photographing and
recording the work sessions with the children.
Moleque keeps studying these records and
has developed a system to follow their
knowledge development.

12. Kids over the years (Chapter 8)
Juliana Shimada Brotto’s delightful text about her
experience at Moleque de Idéias. She started as
a child, came back at 17 and is now 19.
Amazing talent João Vitor Carvalho Gonsalves
shows some of his work.

13. The localities of Moleque
(Chapter 9)
In 1996 the newly started Moleque de Ideias
found its first locality in Colégio Betânia. The next
locality was at the second floor of a day-care
center, Creche Felizinfância. In 1999 Moleque
moved to the house next to Instituto Maia
Vinagre, where Leila studied when she was a
child.

14. The new locality (Chapter 10)
During the beginning of 2014 Moleque will
relocate to a two-story building, also in Santa
Rosa, Niterói. There will be significantly more
space for administration, work, ideas and projects
and the house is being reconstructed to
accommodate a green roof, which will keep the
house cooler. The water system will be able to
utilize rainwater.
There will be space to use solar panels and to
grow vegetables and for instance herbs for
Moleque's own use and to distribute within the
networks. All of this gives new possibilities for
sustainability. In the back yard there is a garden
and a deck for presentations and meetings as
future projects.