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Monday, June 26, 2017 at 13:32 p.m.

“Chemistry is fun and exciting”

Francisco Tomás-Valiente Jordá, a student at the IES Ramiro de Maeztu in Madrid, has been the winner of the fifteenth edition of the URJC Chemistry, Environment and Intelligent Energy Contest.

This test has pitted the best Chemistry students in their second year of high school in the Community of Madrid during the 2016-2017 academic year. The podium this year has been for the IES Ramiro de Maeztu, which has won the first three prizes. "The three of them are very hard-working and very intelligent boys, with which we teachers have little to do," said Margarita Díez, one of the teachers at the winning institute.

The student who won the first prize was Francisco Tomás-Valiente Jordá, for whom Chemistry “is a fun and exciting science”, although he has no intention of studying chemistry in the future as his first option. "Yes, I would like to continue learning chemistry over the years because to understand today's world, which is very plural and very diverse, we need the humanities, the sciences, the arts, that is, we need a multidisciplinary vision", has expressed the student of the IES Ramiro de Maeztu.

The awards ceremony was chaired by the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, Juan Antonio Melero, together with the Vice-Rector for Scientific Policy, Visitación López-Miranda, the Bruker sales and business development coordinator, Pedro Cano, and the director of the Department of Chemical and Energy Technology, Environmental, Mechanics and Analytical Chemistry, Raúl Sanz.

The event has been organized by the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Group, the “Intelligent Energy” Campus of International Excellence and the URJC Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit. In addition, it is sponsored by BRUKER Española.

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