An Aragonese woman, winner of the Hi Score Science National Absolute League
Beatriz Feringán Bernal from Aragon has won first place in the 5th National Absolute Hi Score Science League. The league, which began last September and lasted until 28 May, has featured a monthly online tournament in which users from all over Spain, of all ages and educational levels, from primary school to university professors and from all over the country, have competed with their mobiles and computers to prove that they are the wisest in science.
During the different games, the participants had to answer questions such as: Is the skin of which fruit flammable, Is the altitude of an aeroplane measured from the ground or from sea level, Why do we cry when we cut onions? Or what does the octane number in petrol mean?
The winners included secondary school students and workers and researchers from different universities, high school teachers, secondary school and university students from Aragon, Madrid, Valencia and Galicia: Ángel Madurga Artal (2nd) Juan Luis Pueyo Sánchez (3rd), María Costa Gascón (4th), David Moreno Sanagustín and Javier Julián (5th) and Esperanza Pérez Castelló (7th), Leyre Rodríguez Gómez and Juan de Blas Sierra (8th), Cristina Lej (8th) and Ezequiel López Micone (10th).
The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 1st June at 12:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Colegio Santo Domingo de Silos in Zaragoza, for all those who cannot travel to the event the following link has been set up: https://bit.ly/3UURB2a. During the event the prizes will be awarded to the winners of the league and the Regional Competition – Aragon and all those attending will be able to compete live in the on-site competitions.
The winners of the regional competition – Aragon are: Team category: Colegio Santo Domingo de Silos. Individual category: Andrea Sanz (1st classified), Xuan Yu Lai (2nd classified) and Ismael Yao (3rd classified), best question Monchi Zheng (IES Ramón y Cajal – Zaragoza) and best female scientist question, Lucía Lozano (Colegio Escuelas Pías – Escolapios Zaragoza).
After the success of this fifth league season, the organisers of the project, the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis, ISQCH and the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon, INMA, both joint centres between the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza, have confirmed that the sixth season will start on 26 September, which, like previous editions, will have monthly tournaments and will be open to users of all ages and locations in Spain.
What is Hi Score Science?
Hi Score Science is a free, ad-free game of questions and answers with several options about science, which aims to go further than traditional games and increase the scientific culture of users. As a project developed between two research institutes, the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis, ISQCH, and the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon, INMA, (CSIC-UNIZAR), it includes informative explanations of the scientific reality that lies behind each of the answers, encouraging users’ curiosity about science. In addition, the project aims to make the users themselves feel part of the project, as they are the generators of the scientific content. To this end, nationwide competitions have been set up and an online National Absolute league has been created.
The 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 compete in the different categories is available at www.HiScoreScience.org.
An informative 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 ‘Science Teaching Materials in Interactive Support’ category (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 runner-up 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 50,000 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 is supported by the Deputy Vice-Presidency for Scientific Culture of the CSIC and the Casio Científicas project.
31-05-2024
