Seville, November 7, 2018. The Isla de la Cartuja Scientific Research Centre (cicCartuja) is holding the sixth edition of the Future Scientists Conference, an outreach activity within the context of Science and Technology Week. The main objective of the Future Scientists Conference is to encourage scientific vocations among young people and, at the same time, recognise the winners of the Science Fair held last May in Seville. Participants will take a guided tour of the facilities of the cicCartuja institutes and will then present their projects to the public at an event that will take place on November 16 in the cicCartuja assembly hall, starting at 11:30 a.m.
On this occasion, the centre that won the first prize was the IES Martín Rivero from Ronda (Málaga), with its project Activate your brain with toys. The jury awarded the scientific quality and rigor of the study developed by the ESO students on the influence that the use of toys from the 60s, 70s and 80s has on the development and stimulation of different brain areas.
The jury of the XIV Science Fair, composed of researchers Gisela Arzac Di Tomaso (ICMS), Juan Manuel Benito Hernández (IIQ), José Mª Ortega Rodríguez (IBVF) and F. Javier Rojo Marcos (Director of cicCartuja), also agreed to award two second prizes to the IES Híspalis (Seville) for its project ¡TIEMBLA! La Tierra está que arde…, valuing the communicative capacity, the quality of the content and the expository development of the project whose theme is plate tectonics and volcanology; and to the IES Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Seville) for its project Fractal Laboratory and Biomimicry, recognizing the quality of the presentation, the ability to communicate and the practical development of abstract concepts with examples from nature, and technological applications with the potential to improve the quality of life of citizens. All of them will participate and present their projects during the conference.