The ‘Vía de la Plata’ Secondary School is proclaimed winner of the First Contest of Dissemination and Scientific Culture

The first team of the school located in Guijuelo demonstrated in both phases its knowledge and capacity for disseminating science.

The second phase of the I Concurso de Divulgación y Cultura Científica (First Dissemination and Scientific Culture Contest) organized by ABSal (Biotechnology Association of Salamanca) was held last Friday, March 24, at the Auditorium of the Dioscorides Building (Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca). The contest, part of “Biotech’s Got Talent”, welcomed almost 30 students from the Vía de la Plata and Sacred Heart Schools, who answered different questions about science, thus demonstrating their knowledge.

This contest has been the first edition of what is expected to be an annual event of the Biotechnology Association of Salamanca. “It is incredible that you students organize these activities, and I encourage you to continue doing so,” said Miguel Ángel Fuertes, a teacher of Sacred Heart College. “Too bad the empty seats, they don’t know what they’ve missed”.

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Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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