Biology The science of everything. His same etymology already indicates that he is the mother of all the others, because Bio Means life and Lodge refers to the study. That is, the study of life. This is what analyzes the reason why we exist and from which material we are made. It is magical and this must have thought of from an early age Marcos Camacho18 -year -old student of the second high school course, obviously in the scientific branch.
Since childhood he has dreamed of being a marine biologist and this week has transformed that childish passion at national level. Student of Ies José Saramago de Arganda del Rey Increased the gold medal in the XX National Olympiad of Biologyheld this weekend at the University of La Laguna, in Tenerife. To get here, Marcos had to overcome the regional competition phase, in which he qualified with three other students from the Madrid community. One of them, Miguel Arcédiano, won the bronze medal.
How are the biology Olympics?
“There are people who think that this championship is like a television competition, but none of this. They are practical exams and tests of all kinds“Marcos assures. The championship is divided into two parts: a test of the theoretical test and a practical part, in which Marcos had to analyze some insects, a horse and a hedgehog Knowing the details of life is what you like.
Rumbo at the international Olympics
Thanks to this first place at the National Olympics, Will be part of the team that will represent Spain at the XXXVI International Olympiadewhich will take place in the Philippines in the coming months. “It is a responsibility and I am nervous, although more than nerves it is an illusion of representing Spain and meeting very interesting people,” he says. It will be a leap in Marcos’ career and in his life.
Although as a child he dreamed of the oceans, today his gaze is set in biotechnology, a race that he will try to study.
