The Aragonese school Santo Domingo de Silos, winner of the 7th National Hi Score Science Competition
The Aragonese school Santo Domingo de Silos has won the 7th National Hi Score Science Contest. An outreach project that aims to bring science to young people through a game of questions and answers about science for mobile devices and computers.
Hi Score Science is projected not only as a game of questions and answers about science, but it wants to go further and increase scientific culture and the interest of users in science, explaining what is behind the new scientific advances. The project is developed by two research institutes, the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis, ISQCH, and the Aragon Nanoscience and Materials of Institute, INMA, both joint centres of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza, which allows for the inclusion of informative explanations of the scientific reality behind each of the answers. In addition, Hi Score Science encourages users to participate in the project by contributing scientific content to the game and rewarding them with a pass and a trip to the National Final held at the CSIC headquarters in Madrid, a visit to the CSIC’s National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid and technological gifts for the individual prizes.
The prize-giving ceremony for the annual competition and the face-to-face competition, which took place in the Assembly Hall of the CSIC Headquarters in Madrid, at 117 Serrano Street, was attended by leading figures from the world of research and dissemination: Javier Pérez del Val, Head of the CSIC Scientific Culture Department, José María Fraile, Director of the Institute of Homogeneous Synthesis and Catalysis, and Pilar López García-Gallo, Deputy Director of the National Museum of Natural Sciences and Director of Communication and Scientific Culture.
The first part was the prize-giving ceremony in the content category, that is, for the secondary school students who sent us their questions. This year, more than 150 teams from all over Spain took part, sending us more than 3,500 questions, which, once reviewed and edited by a scientific team of 53 researchers, are published in the game with the name and school that sent the question. Among the winning questions are questions such as “What toxic elements did Queen Elizabeth I of England use in her make-up? Or “What gives colour to the eye”?
In the second part of the session, the 7th nationwide face-to-face competition took place, in which students from the different Autonomous Communities put their scientific knowledge to the test by answering live and via their mobiles the game questions such as: Is the skin of which fruit flammable? Is the altitude of an aeroplane measured with respect to the ground or sea level? Why do we cry when cutting onions? Or what does the octane number in petrol mean?
The session can be viewed via the competition’s YouTube channel @HiScoreScience.
Team categories are:
- Winner: Colegio Santo Domingo De Silos – Zaragoza – Team: La Fernandeta – Teacher in charge: Fernando Rived
- Runner-up: IES Juan de Garay – Valencia – Team: MILGARAY – Teacher in charge: Javier Julián
- Third place: Colegio San Juan Bautista – Madrid – Team: los 100tíficos se visten de Prada – Teacher in charge: Alexandra Prada
- Fourth place: Colegio Corazón de María – Gijón – Team Somos Codema 2- Teacher in charge: Laura Fernández
- Fifth classified: Colegio Corazón de María – Gijón – Team Somos Codema 3 – Teacher in charge: Laura Fernández
Individual category:
- Winner: Montachana, Melany – IES Juan de Garay – Valencia
- Runner-up: Sanz, Andrea – Colegio Santo Domingo de Silos – Zaragoza
- Third place: QIU, ZHILING – IES Juan de Garay – Valencia
Best question category:
- Winner: Andrea Sanz: Colegio Santo Domingo de Silos – Zaragoza
- Runner-up: Danna Ariel Rodríguez: IES Juan de Garay – Valencia
- Runner-up: Monchi Zheng: IES Ramón y Cajal – Zaragoza
Women and science category
- Dariana Factos – Colegio SALESIANAS VILLAAMIL – COLEGIO MARÍA AUXILIADORA – Madrid, Prof.: Ana Giménez
Classroom category:
- First match:
- Winner: Guillermo Melero Fañanás – IES Ramón y Cajal – Zaragoza.
- Second: Leo Ureta – Salesianos Estrecho – San Juan Bautista – Madrid
- Third place: Rayyan M’Rabet El Karrach – IES Ramón y Cajal – Zaragoza
- Second match
- Winner: Adrian Correia Da Silva – IES Ramon y Cajal – Zaragoza
- Runner-up: Ismael Yao – Colegio Santo Domingo de Silos – Zaragoza
- Third: Xro – Salesianos Estrecho – San Juan Bautista – Madrid
- Third match
- Winner: Lucas Montuega Gómez – IES Ramón y Cajal – Zaragoza
- Runner-up: Claudia Espluga Egido- IES Ramón y Cajal – Zaragoza
- Third: Héctor Serrano – – Colegio Santo Domingo de Silos – Zaragoza
- Senior Winner: Javier Julián – IES Juan de Garay – Valencia
An outreach project in constant movement with international recognition.
The Hi Score Science project was born in 2016 in response to the need to adapt outreach activities to the world of young people, belonging to the digital generation, which is currently focused on video games and new technologies. This project has progressed year after year, going from being a regional to a national project and reaching a more disadvantaged audience such as young patients in hospitals, prisons, rural inhabitants and adults, a group usually far from outreach activities that allow them to participate actively and not as mere observers.
The project has been awarded first prize in the 18th edition of the Science in Action programme in the category “Science Teaching Materials in Interactive Support” (IBM Award), has received the D+i TOP seal, a national recognition that rewards the best inclusive science outreach projects, has been nominated twice for the Third Millennium awards and has received the runner-up prize in the best outreach project category in the 1st CSIC Science Outreach and Citizen Science Awards.
Hi Score Science is a highly rated game among users with a score of 4.5 out of 5, a much higher score than other similar games, and currently has more than 40,000 downloads all over the world, mainly in Spain and Asia. The game has been presented in the different autonomous communities, at videogame, scientific and informative fairs, reaching 100,000 people.
The free, ad-free game, Hi Score Science, is available in the Play Store and Apple Store and on PC, Mac and Linux(www.HiScoreScience.org). All information about the project and how to enter the different categories is available at www.HiScoreScience.org.
A scientific team behind Hi Score Science
The Hi Score Science project has been developed between two research centres, the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis, ISQCH, and the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon, both joint centres of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza.
The project has the collaboration of other UCC and science museums, such as the CSIC’s Deputy Vice-Presidency for Scientific Culture (VACC), the National Museum of Natural Sciences of Madrid, the Geological and Geominero Institute of Spain, the Elder Museum of Science and Technology, the Eureka Museum, the House of Science of Seville, the Museum of Natural Sciences of the University of Zaragoza, he Planetarium of Aragon, the Archaeology Connection of CSIC, and the CASIO Educational Unit #CientíficasCASIO.
18-04-2024
