The Higher Technical School of Engineering at the University of Seville hosted the regional phase of the Telecommunications Olympics . This competition, which aims to promote telecommunications engineering studies among young students, welcomed 109 students from 8 high schools in the province of Seville for its second edition.

The ETSi organized the territorial phase, which was divided into two parts, one in which they had to solve a challenge as a team, and another in which they faced each other individually. 

The team test consisted of the presentation and defense, before a group of university experts, of a prototype (based on any programmable platform with the Arduino IDE) that demonstrates how telecommunications help to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3): HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. 

Meanwhile, the individual assessment involved solving a set of problems related, directly or indirectly, to Telecommunications Engineering. It is assumed that, to tackle these problems, students possess the fundamental physical and mathematical tools acquired throughout their Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) in the Science track. Thus, students are expected to be able to work with real numbers, represent functions, apply the fundamentals of statistics, solve equations and operate with vectors; solve problems using trigonometry and calculate areas and volumes; understand Newton's laws and the fundamentals of energy; and solve problems involving forces and motion.

However, the focus of the test is on the ingenious use of these fundamental tools, since demonstrating a deep knowledge of them is the subject of other Science Olympiads.

After two days of competition, the team results showed that the first-place winner was a team made up of students from IES Alcaria in Puebla del Rio, which also produced the team that won third place. The second-place team came from Colegio Santa Ana in Seville.

The Alcaria Secondary Education Institute, in Puebla del Rio, has been selected as the best center. 

In the individual competition, all the winners were students from Santa Ana School in Seville. Jesús Vílchez Martínez came in first place; Araceli Guerrero Morano in second; and Rodrigo Lerma Carballo in third. 

Both the top two finishers in the individual phase and the top-ranked team will face off in the national phase, competing against the rest of the teams from all over Spain.