Fundación Cepsa awards prizes to the best projects of its educational programs in Huelva

    • An electrolyzer that produces green hydrogen built by five students from the IES Rábida of Huelva wins the Energy Campus prize
    • Students from the province have submitted more than 60 papers on the future of energy and hundreds of drawings about the Primera de Palos Lagoon
Once again this year, Fundación Cepsa presented the "Energy Campus" and "World Wetlands Day" awards in Huelva. These educational programs, focused on the future of energy and environmental education, served in the 2022/2023 academic year to round out the education in these subjects of 2,962 primary and secondary school students in the province of Huelva.

With the Energy Campus program, Fundación Cepsa provides teachers and students from 36 secondary schools in Huelva with educational material to help them learn how the current energy system works and learn first-hand about the challenges posed by the ecological transition and decarbonization. One of the objectives of the Campus is for students to imagine what the future of society will be like, encouraging them to go beyond existing norms through their creativity. To this end, they are encouraged to participate in a competition with innovative and imaginative projects.

An energy self-sufficient cultural center in the heart of the port of Huelva, running shoes that charge a cell phone battery with their owner's strides, a wind turbine built with recycled materials, and a plant that produces hydrogen from solar panels. These are some of the more than 60 projects presented in this challenge proposed by Fundación Cepsa.

For Narciso Rojas, head of Fundación Cepsa in Huelva,

“It is wonderful to see the creative potential of the young people in our province. We invite them to think beyond the boundaries of what is possible, and they have done so in a mature and very imaginative way. These types of actions teach us that innovation flourishes when the right conditions of motivation and safety are in place. They were not afraid to make mistakes and that helped them develop their imagination to the fullest”.

Narciso Rojas - Head of Fundación Cepsa in Huelva

Las ganadoras del primer premio del Campus de la Energía han sido las alumnas del Instituto Rábida de la capital Alejandra Fernandez, Luz Garrido, Rocío Maltrana, Valeria Rodríguez y Estefanía Suarez. El equipo de alumnas ha construido un mini electrolizador de hidrógeno alimentado por energía solar. Al cerrarse el circuito eléctrico se observan las burbujas de hidrógeno y de oxígeno que se producen por la rotura de la molécula de agua. Se puede decir que las primeras burbujas de hidrógeno verde que se han producido en el Parque Energético La Rábida han sido producto del trabajo de cinco estudiantes de secundaria de Huelva.

Por otro lado, de los más de trescientos dibujos y fotografías relacionados con la Laguna Primera de Palos de la Frontera, humedal recuperado y mantenido por Fundación Cepsa, ha salido ganadora del primer premio Ana Brito, del colegio Pedro Alonso Niño de Moguer.

Fundación Cepsa mantiene abierta la posibilidad de que más institutos y colegios de la provincia puedan participar en sus programas educativos, que continuamente se están renovando en sus contenidos y que tienen como principal objetivo la concienciación medioambiental y potenciar la imaginación y la creatividad de los más jóvenes.

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