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Students from the institute of Blanca, Cabezo de Torres, Cartagena and Yecla learn forensic techniques today to determine the origin of honey, hydroponic cultivation technologies such as those proposed by NASA for future missions to Mars and to analyze the movement of water channeled in the first Biotechnological Routes conference organized this week by the School of Agronomic Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT).
“More than 80% of the honey consumed in Spain comes from China and sometimes there is fraud in the labeling that can be detected by forensic techniques,” explained UPCT researcher Manuel Munuera, an expert on grain from pollen.
Young people in lab coats have used microscopes to detect the floral species from which thousands come.
In another of the practices of the day, they have designed hydroponic crops, without soil, such as those that space agencies foresee that will serve to self-supply future manned missions to Mars, thanks to their “viability in weightless conditions and the concentration of nutrients in the seedlings ”, as explained by Professor Mara del Carmen Martnez.
Divided into modules of Biology, Earth Sciences and Industrial Technologies focused on students of 2nd Baccalaureate, through the practices of the Biotechnological Routes of the UPCT will pass between today and Thursday 250 students from Murcia, Cartagena, Lorca, Yecla, Totana and Blanca.
During the next days students will learn about technologies such as gel encapsulation and its use to produce caviar of melon, those of mechanical compression refrigeration systems, transgenic plants, the anatomy of livestock species, the Murcia hen recovery project, 3D modeling application in Agronomic Engineering and industrial waste analysis.
“These practices are very useful for students,” said IES Mediterrneo Pedro Hernndez Professor of Technology this morning.
“In the subsequent classes, they relate the teaching content to what they have learned in the UPCT and use this knowledge to guide their research projects,” added the teacher.
“Students who attend explain their experience to ESO students to foster future researchers,” continues the tutor, whose center also participates in visits to the Polytechnic Agro-Food Experimental Station.
"In our Medi-Huerto we reproduce research on our scale and we are creating a greenhouse with plastic bottles," he says.
On the other hand, the students of the IES Jos Luis Castillo Puche de Yecla, who for the first time go to the Biotechnological Routes, made it “very excited”.
The director of the School of Agronomists, Arantxa Aznar, has welcomed students this morning remembering the importance that all experts give to Agronomic Engineering to meet the challenge of feeding the growing world population and the advantages of studying in UPCT for regular and close contact with teachers and facilities to access scholarships and other opportunities.
The Biotechnological Routes are carried out with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology - Ministry of Science and Innovation and are promoted by the Higher Technical School of Agronomic Engineering and supported by the General Directorate of Educational Innovation and Attention to Diversity, of the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Source: UPCT
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