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Mexico City, December 25, 2023.- Two Mexican high school students triumphed by taking first and second place in international competitions as they demonstrated their knowledge of physics and science.
This is José Alberto Cortez Martínez, a student at the Center for Industrial and Service Technological Studies (CITES) 78 in the municipality of Altamira, in the state of Tamaulipas.
The young man was part of the Mexican team made up of students from Nuevo León, Michoacán, Jalisco and Tamaulipas, and won the gold medal at the 2023 8th Central American and Caribbean Physics Olympiad (OCCAF).
As a result of the competition held in November in Comayagua, Honduras, the student obtained an average of 39 out of 50 points on complex physics problems.
Cortez Martinez is currently studying electronics and has been participating in the state and national Physics Olympiad since 2022.
Among his achievements is winning a bronze medal at the 28th Ibero-American Physics Olympiad, in which 88 students from 20 countries in America, Spain and Portugal participated.
Also notable is the participation of Paloma Abigail Torres Aguilon, a student at the Center for the Baccalaureate Industrial and Technological Services (CBTIS) 46 in San Luis Potosi.
The young woman took second place at the National Science Fair Chile 2023, held in November in Santiago, with her Pronatura project, which consists of producing probiotics from cabbage.
The student also took first place at the national level with her project Pronatural at the 5th National Entrepreneurship Meeting 2022, held by the General Directorate of Industrial Technological Education (DGETI), an award that granted her permission to participate in Expo Ciencias Nacional in Chile 2023, where she competed with students From Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Peru.
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