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| The Technofigthers group, made up of girls between 12 and 13 years old, received the honorary award from councilor David Martínez | The challenge of geolocating seahorses has been raised with the Ocean Hackathon 2020 prize held this weekend at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
The Councilor for Culture, Youth and Equality, David Martínez Noguera, attended last weekend the final of the event in which the team formed by the marine biologist José Antonio Oliver, the manager of European projects Elen García and the computer programmer Elena Torro got a pass to the international final that will take place in the French city of Brest in the coming weeks.The scientific event, organized by the Campus Mondial de la Mer, will bring together another twelve maritime cities that will present different proposals based on technologies that serve to improve the sustainability and protection of the oceans.In the final, the winning team faced the evaluation of two other proposals: that of a team that had developed a device to detect blooms of toxic algae or that of a third team that devised a system for the recovery of oceanographic measurement buoys.
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The jury, made up of various experts in the environment, innovation or marine science and culture, valued the talent and ingenuity of the participants and highlighted the creativity and innovation of the different teams.In addition, during the day, David Martínez Noguera presented a group of four girls, between the ages of 12 and 13, with an honorary award from the Ocean Hackathon 2020 for their work to raise awareness and safeguard the ocean among the youngest.
The members of this team, called Tecnhofighters, belong to the STEM Talent Association and in their project they have developed, thanks to the technique of augmented reality, a seahorse that they have named Cory.
The team of Secondary students has named it as a thanks to the acronym CORI, the Cartagena Oceanographic Research Institute, an ocean research NGO based in Cartagena that has organized this scientific event for the first time in Spain, together with the city of Cádiz, and that this year celebrates its fifth edition in the rest of the world.Among the entities that have participated in the proposal of scientific challenges for ocean improvement are institutions such as the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), the University of Murcia (UMU), the Hippocampus Association, the Diveapp company and groups such as the one from divers from Cabo de Palos or STEM Talent.“The Ocean Hackathon 2020 has allowed us, during this weekend, to value the scientific and technological talent of the Region and update the advances in the area of ??sustainable development and protection of the oceans.
Cartagena has become a benchmark for oceanographic innovation ”, David Martínez Noguera highlighted.“In this first edition, without a doubt, we must highlight the initiative of the winning team to protect such an emblematic species of our Mar Menor as the seahorse, and the awareness of the young members of Technofighters, who have taught us a lesson sensitivity towards the needs of the marine environment and all the possibilities that technology offers us to know it, protect it and take care of it ”, the councilor remarked.The event, which took place over the weekend, has been sponsored by the Cartagena City Council, the UPCT, Europe Direct Murcia Region, Innova Oceanografía Litoral, Navantia and SABIC, and the collaboration of the Cartagena Port Authority, SAES, Primafrio, COEC, STEM Talent and the CEEIC of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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