Sisla de Sonseca and CIPF Virgen de Gracia winners of the XV Computing Olympics of CTLM
The Escuela Superior de Informática de Ciudad Real has hosted the final of the Regional Olympiad de Informática, organized by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and in which teams representing the Sisla de Sonseca institute (Toledo) and the Virgen de Gracia Integrated Vocational Training Center in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) in the Baccalaureate and Vocational Training modalities, respectively.
The teams representing the Sisla Secondary School of Sonseca (Toledo); and number 3 of the Virgen de Gracia Integrated Vocational Training Center, in Puertollano (Ciudad Real), have been proclaimed winners of the Regional Informatics Olympiad in the Baccalaureate and Vocational Training modalities, respectively. Organized by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), the competition has been held throughout the day today at the Ciudad Real School of Computer Science with different tests such as "Catch the flag" and which has concluded with a fast-paced finale with a television contest format in which the public has even participated very actively.
The winning team in the Baccalaureate modality, Sisla de Sonseca, is made up of Juan María Bravo López, Mario Castro Hernández and Daniel Gómez Martín-Ambrosio, and has had the tutoring of Eva Ramírez Ruiz. Second place went to the IES Ramón y Cajal, from Albacete; and third, for team 1 of the Maestro Juan Rubio de La Roda institute, also from Albacete.
Regarding the Training Cycles, the winning team is made up of José García Aguilar, Daniel Jiménez Coello and Laura Moreno Ramos, and tutored by Joaquín Rubio Molero. In second and third position in this modality were the teams from Azarquiel, from Toledo; and number 2 of the CIFP Virgen de Gracia, in Puertollano (Ciudad Real), respectively.
As the vice-rector for Students, Ángeles Carrasco, recalled at the awards ceremony, the students who are members of the six finalist teams of the Olympiad will obtain free enrollment at UCLM if they decide to pursue their undergraduate studies at this university. The vice-rector for Studies, Quality and Accreditation, José Manuel Chicharro; the mayor of Ciudad Real, Eva María Masías; and the director of the Higher School of Informatics, Crescencio Bravo, among other institutional officials.
Sixty pre-university students from centers throughout the region have participated in the fifteenth edition of the Castilla-La Mancha Informatics Olympiad. The groups that have competed for the medals have passed an initial pre-selection to which fifty teams attended with tests developed online on basic computing, office automation and programming, in the case of Baccalaureate students; and operating systems, databases and programming, for training cycles.
In addition to the Ciudad Real school, the Albacete Higher School of Computer Engineering and the Faculty of Social Sciences of Talavera de la Reina collaborate in the organization, which teaches the Degree in Computer Engineering at this UCLM headquarters.
