REGION DE MURCIA / CETEM rewards the creativity and innovation of the youngest

Source: Agencies
Around 500 works from different Secondary Education Centers of Spain have been submitted to the XII Design Olympics
The awards of the XII Design Olympics organized by the Furniture and Wood Technology Center (CETEM) were delivered on the afternoon of March 5. Almost 500 works from different Secondary Education Centers throughout Spain have been submitted to this contest, which this year celebrates its twelfth edition and has about 4000 works presented throughout its previous editions.

The main objective is to promote interest in technology and design among young people between 12 and 16 years old through an activity that encourages innovation and creativity as an individual attitude and that generates new ideas or concepts to give rise to original and novel solutions that help to the social advance. In addition, it is about making students understand, through their own experimentation, how the process of creating a product (furniture) begins, while vocations are aroused in the field of materials related to product design and engineering. .

The award ceremony was attended by Juan Carlos Muñoz, president of CETEM, José Antonio Ortega president of Arema and José Francisco Puche, director of CETEM.

This year the first prize of the first category, formed by the students of 1st and 2nd ESO, has gone to Marina Forte Hurtado of the IES J. Martinez Ruiz «Azorín» (Yecla), who has designed a piece of furniture for that can move easily. The second prize has gone to a kitchen with furniture that move with a command for users in wheelchairs, which was created by Carmen Quiles Zafrilla of I.E.S J. Martinez Ruiz «Azorín». The third prize has been awarded to Raquel Rozada López from I.E.S J. Martínez Ruiz Azorín, who has designed a miniature ferris wheel so that children can catch food with ease.

In the second category, formed by the students of 3rd and 4th of ESO, the winners were Lucia Formoso Chinchilla of the IES J. Martinez Ruiz «Azorín», with a basket to encourage the children to leave their dirty clothes in the basket case. The second prize went to Gala Placidia Hernández Muñoz of the San Francisco de Asís School, with a modular shelving that adapts to the new technologies and Alicia García Vicente of the IES J. Martínez Ruiz «Azorín» has obtained the third prize with the design of a bench made with recycled material and easy to assemble.

The jury, which evaluated the almost 500 papers presented, was composed of Majo Tumini, designer of Reyes Ordoñez, Fausto Ortuño, manager of Colchón Comodón, José Antonio Ibañez, head of the Department of Product Engineering at CETEM and José Francisco Puche, director of CETEM.