
IFMG, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil), is a free, public multicampus institution that offers technical courses integrated into high school, concomitant and subsequent technical courses, and undergraduate and postgraduate courses. graduation. It has 18 campuses, including the Betim Campus, which offers integrated technical courses in Industrial Automation, Mechanics and Chemistry, in addition to bachelor's degrees in Control and Automation Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
IFMG makes up the Federal Network of Professional and Technological Education and, therefore, follows the university tripod: teaching, research and extension. Among its extension projects is the Astroculture Project, through which the Campus (and the surrounding community) participates in GLOBE.