Technology Fair 2026

They are the researchers of the future — those whose education, creativity and innovations will shape society in the medium term. Children and teenagers who, for one day, took over the Vera campus (València) of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) to celebrate the sixth edition of the Technology Fair at the School of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design (ETSIADI).

The event brought together students from schools across the Valencian Community, who competed before a panel of experts with their own technological projects.

In total, more than 500 students, organised into 82 teams, took part in the grand final event of a competition organised annually by CEFIRE, with the collaboration of the Association of Technology Teachers of the Valencian Community (APTCV), the Professional Associations of Industrial Engineers (COII) and Technical Industrial Engineers (COGITI), and the UPV, through ETSIADI and the School of Industrial Engineering (ETSII).

As is now tradition, the event — divided into age categories — also served as the first stage of the 5th Valencian Olympiad of Industrial Engineering for those teams registered for both competitions.

At the end of the morning, the winners of the Technology Fair and the teams selected to advance to the second stage of the Olympiad were announced. This next phase will take place on 7 May at 5:00 PM at ETSII–UPV. From this stage, the representatives of the Valencian Community will be chosen for the National Olympiad of Industrial Engineering, to be held on 10 June in Badajoz.

Winners of the Technology Fair

1st and 2nd Year of Lower Secondary Education (ESO)

1st prize: Global Warming is Real, La Nostra Escola Comarcal de Picassent

2nd prize: Listen to Your Classroom: Visual Accessibility, IES Massanassa

3rd prize: MatiSTEAM, Playground Project, IES Matilde Salvador, Castellón de la Plana

CATEGORY A (3rd and 4th Year of ESO)

1st prize: Amphibious Rescue Vehicle for Environmental Disasters, IES Pare Arques, Cocentaina

2nd prize: Argobot Ecobeach, Colegio Argos, Valencia

3rd prize: Automated Farm, IES Enric Valor, Orba

4th prize: CanSat, IES Altaia, Altea

5th prize: Obstacle Alert, IES Joan Fuster, Bellreguard

CATEGORY B (1st and 2nd Year of Baccalaureate)

1st prize: Solar Odyssey: Photovoltaics in Motion, IES Joan Fuster, Sueca

2nd prize: Performance Block 3165, IES Teulada

3rd prize: Access Control Using APRILTAG Code: Security Level 1, IES Bernat Guinovart, Algemesí

4th prize: Facial Recognition Access Control: Security Level 2, IES Bernat Guinovart, Algemesí

5th prize: Tracked Firefighting Tank, IES Pare Arques, Cocentaina

CATEGORY C (Higher Vocational Training Programmes)

1st prize: Toolmanage, IES Vall d’Alba

2nd prize: Bottling and Palletising Plant, Escuelas San José, Valencia

3rd prize: Intelligent Robotic Palletising, CIPFP Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Valencia

Teams Advancing to the 2nd Stage of the 5th Olympiad of Industrial Engineering

CATEGORY A (3rd and 4th Year of ESO)

- Amphibious Rescue Vehicle for Environmental Disasters, IES Pare Arques, Cocentaina /Tutor: Vicent Senabre Mira / Students: Assia Arramdani Arramdani, Fedir Frolov, Fatima Zahra Meziane Meziane

- Argobot Ecobeach, Colegio Argos, Valencia / Tutor: Vicente Israel Jiménez Ibáñez / Students: Mateo Shalabi, Álex Balaguer, Cristian Leiva

- Robocop Batllarí, La Nostra Escola Comarcal de Picassent / Tutor: Empar Bou Ferris / Students: Alain Gil del Barrio, Álex Rufino Marwnez, Natxo Hernández Sospedra

- Spidertech, La Nostra Escola Comarcal de Picassent / Tutor: Empar Bou Ferris / Students: Helena Requeni Sáiz, Neus Tomás Aguado

- Fire Truck, La Nostra Escola Comarcal de Picassent / Tutor: Empar Bou Ferris / Students: Guillem Perez Mas, Eneko Fernández Moreno, David García García

CATEGORY B (1st and 2nd Year of Baccalaureate)

- Tracked Firefighting Tank, IES Pare Arques, Cocentaina / Tutor: Héctor Huguet Benavent / Students: Jairo Cremades Santamaria, Marwan Azahaf Fares, Raquel Rodríguez Rozas

- Facial Recognition Access Control: Security Level 2, IES Bernat Guinovart, Algemesí / Tutor: Enric Nadal Aznar / Students: Anna Vicedo Ferrando, Iman Lamallam Kharbouch, Andreu Valls Montalt

- Access Control Using APRILTAG Code: Security Level 1, IES Bernat Guinovart, Algemesí / Tutor: Enric Nadal Aznar / Students: Ricardo Esteve Navarro, Raúl Montero Izquierdo, Dani Nava Landete

- Performance Block 3165, IES Teulada / Tutor: M. Sandra Faus Escribano / Student: Javier Vallés Buigues

- Solar Odyssey: Photovoltaics in Motion, IES Joan Fuster, Sueca / Tutor: Xavier Barberà Rodríguez/ Students: Carlos Yago Estornell, Pau Mateo Vallet, Joan Baldoví Oller

CATEGORY C (Higher Vocational Training Programmes)

- Intelligent Robotic Palletising, CIPFP Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Valencia / Tutor: Carlos León López / Students: Nicholas Valencia Noreña, Albert Izco Alcodori, Miguel Garriga Guijarro

- Bottling and Palletising Plant, Escuelas San José, Valencia / Tutor: Juan Manuel Ríos Lizana / Students: Ángel Almonacid Rodríguez, Jaime Soriano Tur, Antonio Herrero Ceballos

- Peacock Diffuser, IES Vall d’Alba, Castellón / Tutors: M. Carmen Gimeno Mallénch, Paulo Valls / Students: Iñaki Sena Ibáñez, Edgar Sanchis Descals, Santiago Gómez Alfonso

- Toolmanage, IES Vall d’Alba / Tutor: Federico Valls Rodríguez / Students: Álvaro Gil Pardo, Igor Bezares Corina, Yassine Mbrouk