Ten students from IES Ibn al Baytar in Benalmádena (Málaga) have been recognized by the North American space agency, NASA, for find ten asteroids during a research project.
This was announced by the City Council of the Costa del Sol city in a statement, in which they detail that the acting mayor, Presi Aguilera, accompanied by the mayor of Education, María Luisa Robles, received this Friday group of boys and girls who have received a diploma from NASA.
The young people have taken part in a educational center workshopand his group has been coordinated by the head of studies, Juan Carlos Pérez, and the professor of Physics and Chemistry, Juan Manuel Ramos.
Aguilera has stressed that “We are looking at future researchers of whom all of Benalmádena should be proud, as well as their teachers for the magnificent idea of turning the students into authentic astronomers to, through NASA, search for asteroids, even receiving the distinction of the agency for having achieved it, being a great success to encourage the students to carry out their research. be a challenge to follow in different fields, at the same time as they are being trained”.
Cradle of researchers
After congratulating the boys and girls from the City Council, the mayor of Education added that this institute has carried out a reference workshop beyond the municipality, “with an international project in which these wonderful students have achieved a great discovery, which demonstrates the professional quality of the teaching staff and the high level of the students“, being for our government team a pride to have these students in our municipality.”
The IES Ibn al Baytar workshop coordinated by Pérez and Ramos, pursues encourage interest in astronomy, participating in a search that, in this case, has given great results. “The students have dedicated a lot of time to this extracurricular activity, as well as at home, taking hours of their free time to find asteroids,” they noted.
