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Five of the six participants from Murcia in the national phase of the Physics Olympiad won two silver medals, one bronze and two honorable mentions in a competition in which 136 high school students from all over the country participated.
The winners with the silver medals are José María García Arcas, from the Rey Carlos III institute and Jaime López Pay, from the Alfonso X el Sabio institute.
The winner of the bronze medal is Sebastián de la Peña Ruiz, of the Marist School of La Merced.
The mentions of honor were obtained by Miguel Varea Martín and Miguel Sánchez-Campillo Martínez, both from the Instituto Infante D. Juan Manuel.
The Physics Olympiad is an annual competition for high school students that aims to promote the teaching of this science, constitute a meeting point between students and teachers and select the contestants who represent Spain in the International Olympiad, which this year It's in Lisbon from July 21 to 29.
The test consists in the resolution of physics problems contextualized in real life situations such as, for example, the study of the movement of satellites and planets, the properties of sound or the operation of electric motors.
The contestants have to demonstrate the knowledge of Physics learned in secondary education, and put to the test both their analytical and analytical capacity as well as their creativity.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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