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The University of Murcia (UMU) organizes on Wednesday, July 15, the second virtual final of the MasterChem contest, from which three winning groups will come out, one per category: Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate.Organized by the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC + i), belonging to the Vice-Rector's Office for Scientific Transfer and Disclosure at the University of Murcia, this contest has managed to increase interest in chemistry in the nearly 200 participants of this second edition.After the video round and a semifinal, nine groups have gone through to an emotionally charged final.
The selected teams belong to the centers: Cipriano Galea, Los Álamos, Capuchinos San Buenaventura, IES Floridablanca, Colegio CEI, IES Saavedra Fajardo, IES El Carmen and IES Cañadas de las Eras.All of them will meet again online this Wednesday to see the finalist experiments and learn about the assessment of a committee of national experts.
The winners will receive various technological gifts.
In addition, the jury will select one of the teams that will obtain the direct pass to the final of the Science in Action 2020 international competition.This project, which has the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Ministry of Science and Innovation, is a commitment by the UMU to boost the interest of the youngest in research and experimentation.
An initiative that continues to reap success in this new edition, and which has just become the best-rated project by FECYT for its national call for aid for dissemination within the category of 'Education and scientific vocations'.Prestigious juryNational experts in the discipline of chemistry will be in charge of evaluating these students.
Specifically, Bernardo Herradón García, from the CSIC Institute of General Organic Chemistry; Gabriel Pinto Cañón, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid; and Mercedes Pastor Blas, professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Alicante will have the final decision in their hands.This activity also has the support of the Murcia City Council, the Seneca Foundation Agency for Science and Technology of the Region of Murcia, the Academy of Sciences of the Region of Murcia, the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry in its territorial section, the College of Chemists from the Region of Murcia, the Faculty of Chemistry and companies such as Tecnoquim, Proquilab, AMC group or the SM group.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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