The students, who represent the Farem-Estelí, competed against college students from China, the US and other countries.

Two students from the Regional Multidisciplinary Faculty Farem-UNAN Managua, of Estelí, were awarded the second place in the world innovation contest, Wege, developed in Michigan, United States, beating representatives of powers such as China.

The two Nicaraguans, Octavio José Sanabria, engineer in renewable energy student, and Alex Santiago Ramírez, environmental engineer student, from the Farem Estelí, participated with two American students.

The information has been confirmed by the Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Health of Farem-Estelí, Juan Alberto Betanco Maradiaga.

The Wege award is a contest of innovation projects’ design “that inspires hopes of success and problem solving”, for college students from all over the world.

To participate in the contest, students must develop an innovation project that aims to solve a problem and promotes a non-profit collaborative economic model.

The four students earned the second place by designing a project that halta the negative environmental impact of coffee production process among small farmers and takes advantage of the waste byproducts of that process to produce other raw materials which can be exported for additional revenue. For that, they will receive 10 thousand dollars. The winners of the first and third place will get 15 thousand and 5 thousand dollars, respectively.

The final competition was performed through a live broadcast, where the five finalist groups and the winners were announced.

Students from universities of Canada, China, Chile, Colombia, India, Iran, Costa Rica, Denmark, Holland and the United States participated in the contest.

Recently, 15 Nicaraguan students were awarded the first place in every scientific activity developed during a visit to the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA).

Young students from the Pierre and Marie Curie schools gained the first place in the tests of robotics, building a rocket, thermodynamics and environmental design in planet Mars. Nicaraguans competed against a school from Georgia, an Eastern Europe country.