Tomás Ayté, a student in the last year of secondary school at Padre Damián de los Sagrados Corazones School, won the 10th Pre-University Competition organized by the UIC with his research project «A Study on Huntingdon's Disease». The winner, who said he wants to study Medicine, won a scholarship covering 100% of the enrolment fee for the first year of a degree at the UIC.
Ayté was one of twenty finalists competing in the last stages of this competition, in which 130 students in the last year at different secondary schools took part.
Second prize was awarded to Carles Merino, a student at Montsoriu Secondary School, whose project was a demographic, economic and social study on towns in Catalonia with fewer than two hundred inhabitants. Finally, third prize went to Mireia Gil, from Petit Estel-La Nova School, for her project on behaviourism versus constructivism.
The jury, which was made up of UIC professors, awarded the three prizes based on the relevance of the projects and their content. Students were assessed in terms of structure, their ability to analyse, their speaking skills and achievement of objectives.
The projects, presented in a wide range of fields for this tenth competition sponsored by Banc Sabadell, came from students at some forty state schools, state-subsidized private schools and private schools across Catalonia.
The top ten students won a scholarship covering 100% of the enrolment fee for the first year of their degree at the UIC. The first-place student was also awarded a laptop computer and the second and third-place students received an iPod Shuffle. The tutors of the winning students received a Kindle eBook.
