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Preuniversitaries of excellence from all over Spain will practice hydraulics, astronomy, solar vehicles and forensic sciences while discovering La Manga or the mine Agrupa Vicenta
This year, for the first time, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) will host the Summer Scientific Campus awarded to the Mare Nostrum International Excellence Campus (CMN), which will be attended by 120 young people from all over Spain during the month of July.
Each week there will also be an afternoon visit to the facilities of the University of Murcia, where there will be a reception and a scientific leisure activity will be scheduled.
The scientific leisure plan in Cartagena will include, among other activities, visits to the Agrupa Vicenta de La Unión mine, La Manga and a night catamaran sailing.
Thirty pre-university students will conduct each week one of the research projects that have been prepared by the disseminators of both public universities in the Region.
The young students, with an excellent academic record, will do tests in the laboratories of the Polytechnic of Cartagena and enjoy recreational, sports and cultural activities.
Scientific activities will be distributed in four research projects.
The first will focus on hydraulic engineering, with workshops on water supply networks, transport infrastructure and water storage and port construction.
The young people will perform simulations in the hydraulic laboratories of the UPCT, which reproduce jumps of dams and effects of propagation of the waves.
Astronomy will be the nucleus of other activities, with observations of stars and planets, experiments of measurement of the speed of light and technological applications for the tracking of the stars.
The solar-powered vehicles will star in a third block of the Mare Nostrum Summer Scientific Campus, with a solar vehicle assembly workshop, where the pre-university students will work side by side with UPCT Solar Team students, who compete every year With other prototypes of electric vehicles in international energy efficiency races.
The latest research project will focus on forensic science for the resolution of court cases.
Students will practice forensic psychology and entomology and legal medicine.
The call for Summer Scientific Campus has the deadline to register until 15 hours on Friday 24 March.
1,920 places have been convened for students of 4th grade and 1st year of Bachillerato in sixteen international and regional excellence campuses.
The Summer Scientific Campus is organized by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (Fecyt), Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and sponsored by the La Caixa Social Work.
The Campus Summer Scientists Mare Nostrum was last year the second most demanded of all Spain.
In that edition the UPCT participated, through its then newly created Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation, showing its research facilities and some of its most striking projects, as well as its equipment for the production of competition vehicles.
Source: UPCT
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