More than 70 high school students compete in the local phase of the 6th Roads, Canals and Ports Olympiad 

The group of 4 female students and one male student from IES Punta del Verde in Seville has been the winner of this local phase

The Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville will hold the local phase of the VI National Olympiad of Civil Engineering, Canals and Ports next Friday, March 15, starting at 9:00 a.m., an activity aimed at students of Compulsory Secondary Education and which seeks to promote the profession and the university environment among students who are close to choosing the degree they will study in their next academic stage.  

More than 70 young people from secondary schools in the provinces of Seville, Cordoba, and Huelva will participate in one of the 12 teams competing in the events of the competition. These six events that make up the Olympiad are related to 8 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined in the UN's 2030 Agenda, adopted in 2015.  

In this way, they will have to overcome the following challenges:  

Test 1 “Voussoir Arch”: Construction Engineering (SDGs 8, 9, 11 and 17). 

Test 2 “Da Vinci Bridge”: Structural Engineering (SDGs 8, 9, 11 and 17). 

Test 3 “Dam-Edam”: Hydraulic Engineering (SDGs 6, 8, 11 and 17). 

Test 4 “Road engineering and its works”: Graphic engineering (SDGs 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 17). 

Test 5 “ LogisTIC ”: Transport of goods, efficient logistics (SDGs 8, 11, 13 and 17). 

Test 6 “Playing at being an engineer”: Computer-assisted project (SDGs 4, 8 and 17). 

In addition to promoting the profession of Civil Engineering among young people, STEM degrees, and facilitating a first approach of secondary school students to the university academic world, the linking of these tests with the SDGs established in the 2030 Agenda by the UN, involves students in working for a common good and integrating these objectives into their present as aspiring to be the new professionals of the society of the future. 

Organized by the Official College of Civil Engineers (COICCP), the 6th Civil Engineering Olympiad is a collaborative effort involving 14 Higher Technical Schools or Polytechnic Schools of Engineering, including those in Seville, Granada, A Coruña, Ciudad Real, Valencia, Cartagena, Alicante, Burgos, Oviedo, Barcelona, ​​Cádiz, Santander, Madrid, and Cáceres. This local stage will select the teams that will compete in the 6th National Olympiad, to be held at the Higher Polytechnic School of the University of Burgos on May 24, 2024.