Students from high school diploma from Gipuzkoa, Navarra and La Rioja have been the finalists of the Ingenuity Contest and design organized by Tecnun, School of Engineers of the University of Navarra. sponsorship The initiative, which seeks to encourage the imagination of young people through the application of innovative ideas, has counted in its 15th edition with the support of the companies IKOR, and Laboral Kutxa.  

It should be noted that 52 projects were submitted to the competition, 12 of which were selected by the jury of Tecnun and three went on to the final. Education The deliberation of the competition, which took place today at the School of Engineers of the University of Navarra in San Sebastian, awarded the first prize, award , to the Iturrama Secondary School in Pamplona, the second to the Herrikide Ikastetxea school in Tolosa and the third to the Las Fuentes-Alcaste school in La Rioja. 

The jury, composed of Tecnun professorsAsier López and Juan Villarón, awarded 1,500 euros to the first group, 1,000 to the second group and 500 to the third place winners. 

Education B eñat Baines, Markel Iruretagoyena and Aitor Muro, from the Iturrama Secondary School of Pamplona, surprised the jury with their project "Tunel de Vinto", and especially for the originality with which they have sold their idea. The main goal of this project is to study the relationship between the issue of blades and angular velocity in vertical axis turbines: "For this we have used the application of an outer casing to direct the wind and increase the angular velocity," explains student Beñat Baines. The students from IES Iturrama were accompanied by Jose Miguel Zabaleta Trecu, a teacher at the same school.

The students Leire Estanga, Jon Agorreta and Leire Enrique, from Herrikide Ikastetxea of Tolosa, have been awarded for their project "Mowite": "It is a program that allows us to know the amount of energy that a plug is spending, through a small usb that connects to the computer," explains Leire Estanga, one of the students promoters. "It also gives you the option to know, through an App, what you are spending and to turn off and on what is connected," continues student Jon Agorreta. The students from Herrikide Ikastetxea were accompanied by Professor Jabi Luengo Errazquin, a teacher at the same center.

Finally, the Las Fuentes-Alcaste center in La Rioja has been awarded for a project project promoted by students in the 4th year of ESO; Carlos de Miguel Latorre, César González Cabeza and Pablo Gutiérrez Ubierna. It is called by the young promoters as "Ecocharge", and consists of "an ecological way of obtaining energy to charge our mobile devices". And what better way to do it than with a bike and a scooter. "In order to use the energy generated by riding a bike, we need a circuit," explains one of the students. "The circuit transforms the alternating current of the dynamo into direct current so that we can charge our phones safely," concludes another of the students from the school in La Rioja. The students from the Las Fuentes-Alcaste school in La Rioja were accompanied by Professor Gonzalo Torroba Aguillo, a teacher at the same school. 

Representing Tecnun-University of Navarra were Iñigo Gutierrez, director from development , Mikel Arcelus, director from Promotion, and Ainara Diez, also from the Promotion Service. From Ikor, Marisa Cedenilla and Aitor Larruskain attended, and from Laboral Kutxa, Arantxa Olaizola and José Murua. Some of the students' relatives, such as Itziar Galarraga and Elena Garayalde, also participated.