The IES Miguel Fernández hosted yesterday afternoon the awards of the XV Olympiad of Biology of Melilla, which in this edition have had the participation of 158 students of first and second baccalaureate belonging to all the institutes of the city.
The autonomous phase of the Olympiad, organized by the Melillense Association for the Dissemination of Biology and Geology (AMEBYG), has counted in this edition with two phases. The theoretical phase, held on February 7 at the IES Virgen de la Victoria, which consisted of a test-type questionnaire on the contents of biochemistry, evolution, ecology, cytology, histology, physiology and animal and plant anatomy, reproduction, genetics, microbiology and immunity.
The ten best classifieds participated in the practical test, designed by professors from the University of Granada, where they demonstrated their knowledge and skills in the laboratory. This took place on February 14 at the IES Leopoldo Queipo.
The winner will be representing Melilla in the XX Spanish Olympiad of Biology, which takes place from April 3 to 6 in Tenerife, in which it will be measured with the champions of the different Autonomous Communities. The winners of the national phase will represent Spain at the International Biology Olympiad and the Ibero-American Biology Olympiad.
The Provincial Director of Education, Elena Fernández Treviño, who has attended the event and participated in the awards ceremony, has congratulated the winners, as well as the teaching team and the centers that have hosted the celebration of the different phases that make up the Biology Olympiad of Melilla. “It is a pride for me to be able to accompany all the students, all those who have participated in this award today,” he said.
He also conveyed his congratulations to the professor who has made this Olympics possible and has valued the role played by Professor Laura García, while congratulating all the professors of Biology of all the centers for the success of participation.
Encourage knowledge and curiosity
In this sense, he has insisted on the importance of continuing to develop this type of activities, “which promote curiosity and knowledge beyond the strong walls of the classroom, which take them out of there and which awaken vocations in the lives of these students.” “Thanks to the work of the teachers, the students awaken in vocations that were initially unthinkable for them,” he said.
Fernández Treviño, about the winner of the local stage, Maysar Ismael, has assured that it is “a round, complete, brilliant student”. About his student at IES Miguel Fernández, he expressed his desire that “this opportunity that gives him to participate in Olympics like this one opens up fields of action”.
Leave Melilla at the top
For his part, Maysar Ismael has acknowledged that, although it is complicated, “he will seek to win and leave Melilla as high as possible” these days in the national phase of the Olympics. This student, who is studying 2nd Baccalaureate at IES Miguel Fernández and aspires to study Medicine, understands that biology is “the meaning of life”.
“When you study biology and see things, how the body works, how the world works, you realize how everything is a calculated mechanism. Everything is calculated to the millimeter, it does not fail, so that everything works perfectly and everything follows a cycle,” he said.
Maysar Ismael is also the winner of the local Olympics of Chemistry, held on March 7 at the IES Juan Antonio Fernández. Thus, he will also represent Melilla in the national phase that will take place in Córdoba from April 25 to 27.
Good response
The delegate of the Biology Olympiad in Melilla and professor of Biology and Geology of the IES ‘Virgen de la Victoria’, Laura García Castillo, has thanked the participation of the students and has valued the fact that every year more students are presented. “Every year we are perfecting and making the test in the regional stage more like the national stage, with the incorporation of a practical part in the Olympics,” he explained.
García thanked the professors of Biology and Geology who participated in the realization and correction of the theoretical test and highlighted, in this edition, the commitment and collaboration of the professors of the University of Granada of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Education and Sports Sciences, in Melilla.
In addition, it has highlighted the collaboration of the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, as well as the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in the celebration of this activity. Finally, he referred to the official companies and colleges “for their generous collaboration and willingness.”
Autonomous classification
The ten students awarded at the 15th Biology Olympiad in Melilla are:
- Maysar Ismael Mohamed, from IES Miguel Fernández
- Amina Aarourou Benhaddi, from IES Juan Antonio Fernández
- Nur Mohamed Hennad, of the IES Virgen de la Victoria
- Marta Sánchez López, from the IES Virgen de la Victoria
- Nisrin Chahmi Tahiri, of the IES Virgen de la Victoria
- Mariam Ahmed Hamed, from IES Leopoldo Queipo
- Juan María Rodríguez Luque, of the IES Juan Antonio Fernández
- Romaisa Douhri Hemmal, of the IES Leopoldo Queipo
- Nur Gordillo Mohamed, from IES Juan Antonio Fernández
- Adam Atrari Embark, from IES Miguel Fernández