Fifty high school students have been advised by young UPNA researchers at the Planetarium. Students work with science and technology projects to present them in May in Bilbao at the Science Fair organized by the Elhuyar Foundation

Fifty students from ESO and Baccalaureate from four schools in Navarra (IES Amazabal de Leitza, IES Julio Caro Baroja de Pamplona, IES Elortzibar de Noáin and the ikastola San Fermin de Cizur Menor) participated today, Wednesday 29 March, at the Science Fair. It is an initiative of the Elhuyar Foundation that consists in the creation of scientific or technological projects by students who are at the gates of the university throughout the course, in groups, with the advice of researchers and professors of the university. Navarros students between 12 and 18 years old have received the advice of 18 researchers, scholars and young doctoral students from different departments of the Public University of Navarra (UPNA), including Applied Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Natural Environment Sciences. This support will serve them to publicly exhibit their work at a fair on 6 May in the center of Bilbao, together with the students of the CAPV. Hence the name of Zientzia Azoka. This initiative has the collaboration of the Foral Community, the University, the Planetarium and the Friends of Science Club.

Secondary education students have been able to talk about their projects related to sociology, computer science, sport, microbiology, health and the environment, with young researchers from UPNA, which has helped to increase their commitment to research.

80 young Navarros participate in the 'Zientzia Azoka', since in addition to the four centers that have participated in the meeting, the students of the Ikastola of Sangüesa are preparing their projects.

Leire Cancio Orueta, General Director of the Elhuyar Foundation, Ramón Gonzalo García, Vice-Rector for Research at UPNA, Joaquín Sevilla Moróder, Head of Knowledge Disclosure at UPNA, Javier Armentia Fructuoso, President of the Planetarium of Education Navarra, and Aitor Díaz, President of the Club de Lácar.

The objective of the four organizing entities (Elhuyar Foundation, Public University of Navarra, Planetarium of Navarra and Friends of Science Club) is to create a network of secondary education centers committed to research in the Foral Community, with the aim of improving the training and skills of students who are at the university gates.