Maider Manterola Tellería, a student at high school Corazón high school in Pamplona, has won the regional round of the Biology Olympiad, held at the School of Science at the University of Navarra, in which 103 students from 23 schools participated.

The second best result of the test was for Tomás de Navascués, from high school Irabia-Izaga, and the third place went to another student from high school Sagrado Corazón , Maite Losarcos Santamaría.

Also receiving special mentions were Amina Bengriche, Telmo Bretos, Micaela Voltas, Maddalen Monreal, Leyre Sánchez de Muniain, Juan Belzunce, Adrián Gil, Amaia Lerga and María Martínez Palacios.

These three classified students will participate, from March 28 to 31, in the national phase of the Biology Olympiad, to be held at the University of the Balearic Islands. In turn, the students who obtain the three best positions in the national test will opt for the international test , which this year will take place in the Hungarian city of Szeged, from 14 to 21 July. The 4th, 5th and 6th place finishers in the national phase will be able to compete in the Ibero-American Biology Olympiad, to be held in the second week of September in the city of Cochabamba (Bolivia).       

Speakers at the event included Hasier Morrás Aranoa, director Multilingualism and Arts Education Service of the Government of Navarre; Rafael Mayorga Más and Alicia Soria Tosantos, students at high school Biologists; and Inmaculada Pascual Elizalde, associate dean for student affairs School of Science the School of Science .