Are you a technology teacher and want to take part in this initiative with your highschool or vocational training students? Are you a highschool or vocational training student and want to experience the potential of telecommunications? If that is so, this olympiad is for you.
What is it?
It is a initiative stemming from 20 telecommunication engineering schools from all Spain and the COITT, the Spanish official telecommunication engineer association.
Its general purpose is the promotion of the telecommunication engineering by showing how it affects many fields in our daily life and improves its quality. It focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals or SDG. This year the Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable has been selected.
Participate in the Olympiad!
You can participate in teams or individually. In the following link, you will find information about the different modes and competition categories, as well as the prizes that you and your institution can win:
Qualifying round at TelecoVigo
In this first edition of 2023, we received 256 registrations from secondary school (ESO), high school (Bachillerato), and vocational training (FP) students, which accounted for 39% of the total number of students nationwide (from the 20 participating schools). The work began with two training sessions. The first session took place on March 7th, both in-person and online, at the EET. The second session was held on April 26th, in an online format, to address any questions or doubts. You can find more information about the first training session in this link and in this article from Faro de Vigo.
Finally, on May 26th, we had the team competition event for the ESO and FP categories, held in person at the EET. A total of 11 ESO teams and 6 FP teams were selected from their respective institutions to compete in this event. If you want to watch the videos showcasing their work and learn more about the winners, you can access this page
También puedes acceder al resumen en esta noticia.
Varios medios se hicieron eco de esta competición y de sus resultados (El Progreso, Faro de Vigo, Atlántico Diario, Metropolitano y, otra vez, Faro de Vigo).
National competition phase
The following teams have been selected for the national competition:
- In the secondary education (ESO) category (teams): IES Primeiro de Marzo, CPR Manuel Peleteiro, IES Pastoriza, and CPR Dr. López Suarez (Escairón)
- In the vocational training (FP) category (teams): CIFP A Farixa
- In the high school (Bachillerato) category (individual): Xabier Garabato González (CPR Manuel Peleteiro), and Rocío Fernández Álvarez (IES Ribeira do Louro)
Currently, the selected students and teams are preparing for the national competition, which will be held in an online format.
Any doubts?
You can get them solved:
- In the olympiads website,
- carefully checking the rules of the competition
- or mailing us at teleco.olimpiadas@uvigo.es.
Sponsors of the local competition
