During the ceremony, held on March 21 at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City, the first three places were recognized and an honorable mention was awarded to support other environmental actions. In total there will be 400,000 pesos, both for the winners and for the acquisition of resources in the participating educational institutions.
For the pharmaceutical company, the delivery of these awards represents a stimulus for young people to give free rein to their ideas, in order to offer solutions that resonate in their communities.
The call was well received, with 78 projects designed and applied by students from technical high schools, general schools, and private schools in Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Aguascalientes, Tamaulipas, the State of Mexico, and CDMX.
Winners of the Amanda Rimoch National Award for Environmental Education
The first place of this edition corresponded to the ECO ROBOT ARTEC 12-23, developed by the students of the Technical Secondary School No. 12 “Guardias Presidenciales” in Mexico City. Made with recyclable material, collected during the campaign entitled “Deschatarrízate”, it is a continuation of the project that received an honorable mention at the award ceremony held in 2022.
This device will crush PET containers to transform them into flakes (flakes), through a mechanical process that is performed on the torso of the android. With this raw material it will be possible to manufacture bases for benches and tables for the workshops that are given in the school yard, as well as a shade mesh that will protect the facilities.