Secondary students from Mairena de Aljarafe (Sevilla), Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), Pamplona (Navarra) and Plasencia (Cáceres) have won today’s entreREDes Olympic Games, beating the students from 24 Spanish academic centres that reached the national final.

They have all demonstrated to be the ones who know the most about electricity systems, the energy transition and the subjects covered during the year: Geography and History, Physics and Chemistry/Biology, Math, Language and Literature, and Leisure and Culture.

The winners for the First Secondary year are the students from Colegio San Cernin, in Pamplona; the Second Secondary year come from IES Juan de Mairena, in Mairena de Aljarafe; in the Third Secondary year the team from Colegio Compañía de María, in Talavera de la Reina, came first; and in the Fourth Secondary Year the team from Colegio San Calixto, in Palencia, took it.

In the finals held online and presented by the teacher and YouTuber David Calle, founder of the web academy Unicoos, students attained the maximum score by playing entreREDes, a video game created by Red Eléctrica to teach in an enjoyable way the younger generations whatever is necessary to become efficient and responsible consumers. Among other matters, they learn what renewable energies are and what their contribution to the generation mix is, what the interconnections with other countries are, the existence of a cable to exchange electricity with the Balearic Islands or what it means that Canary electricity systems are isolated. In turn, they go over the curriculum content learnt in the classroom.

“There is no planet B. Global warming is causing real problems in our surroundings. It is time to take very seriously our role as citizens of a world that deserves our taking care of it to the maximum. You are the most and better-prepared generation to build a more sustainable, fairer and more inclusive future” Redeia Chairwoman Beatriz Corredor told them during the competition, encouraging them to “choose studies and a professional future in which you can contribute to leaving the world a better place than you found”.

Corredor thanked the academic community for introducing the game entreREDes in the classroom as a useful tool to teach in a differently and joyfully to their students and accompanying them “with so much passion along their learning, growth and development journey".

More than 30,000 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Secondary year students have used the game and taken part in the entreREDes Olympic Games this year, and 24 academic centres from Andalucía, Aragón, Extremadura, Castilla- La Mancha, Castilla y León, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, La Rioja and Región de Murcia made it to the final.

The entreREDes game is free, has more than 11,000 questions and is designed to be a support tool for teachers in the classroom, for students to review the content at home and to have fun sharing it with their families and friends. It includes three different game modes that adapt to the academic needs of teachers and students at each time: Classroom, Challenge and Classic, and is available both for desktops (Windows, MacOS and Linux) and mobile devices (Android and iOS).