The ETSi brings together experts in Artificial Intelligence at the opening day of the ARCyTAN 2023-24 program 

26 high school students accessed one of the places in the High Performance in Science and Technology program in Andalusia, ARCyTAN 

The Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSi) of the University of Seville, hosted yesterday, December 12, a Round Table under the title "Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence" , framed in the ARCytan project (High Performance in Science and Technology in Andalusia) which since 2015 has been working with high school students from all over Andalusia, giving them the opportunity to attend the Center regularly to receive pre-university orientation, scientific-technical workshops, technological visits, etc.

Moderated by Emilio Carrizosa, president of the Spanish Network of Mathematics-Industry (math-in), experts in the field such as Teodoro Álamo, professor of Systems Engineering and Automation at the ETSi; Héctor García, Founder of Geographic currently integrated into Carto; Yolanda Torres, medical director of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Aljarafe; and Alicia Troncoso, president of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA), will debate this highly topical issue that arouses so much interest among new generations.   

During the afternoon, and prior to the experts' debate table, the Science and Technology Olympiad took place, in which 90 high school students, selected from the more than 150 registered and with an average grade of 9 in their studies, they took a scientific-technical knowledge test to be selected and be part of the new group of students of the ARCyTAN 2023-24 program. 

After the test, a total of 26 young people will have the opportunity to get to know the Center and its scientific-technological activity during a decisive year for their university future.  

The management of the ETSi launches this program with the main objective of bringing the studies taught at the School, the university environment and the field of engineering closer to the secondary education students of Andalusia. With this, the ETSi aims to encourage the interest of young people in this area of ​​knowledge, so necessary to promote the socio-economic activity of the region.