As a way to motivate students to learn about Constitution and to promote the construction of a citizenry aware of their rights and homework, 96 secondary school students from 16 educational centers participated in the Olympics of the Knowledge of the Constitution.
This initiative organized by the Constitutional Court It held its final round this Tuesday at the American Dominican Cultural Institute, in which four students from the Cambita Polytechnic, in San Cristóbal, competed with the Santa Rosa de Lima School, in Santo Domingo.
In the contest they turned out award-winning the students of the Santa Rosa de Lima School, who received, in addition to their certificate of stakea trophy, gold medals and laptops for each one. While the second place obtained a silver medal, an honorable mention plaque and a tablet for each participant.
“The truth is that it has been a experience quite enriching and very rewarding because through Constitution everything is established, so once you understand everything that is there, you understand how society is managed,” said Clami Estévez, who participated on behalf of the School, prior to concluding the contest.
Meanwhile, Enger Pacheco, participant from the Cambita Polytechnic, established that despite being a competence, The most important thing is not who wins or loses, but the knowledge acquired in the process.
For the olympics eight were summoned schools and eight schools from different regions, including San José de Ocoa, San Cristóbal, El Seibo, Cotuí, San Cristóbal, Santo Domingo, National District.
Four students and two substitutes participated per center, who faced each other in three preliminary rounds and the final held this Tuesday.
In addition, of the participantsabout 388 students received talks and workshops training about the Constitution as part of the initiative.
final round
In the final round, three activities through which students accumulated “constipoints”. In the first, they were multiple choice questions.
In the second activity, hypothetical cases were presented so that students could identify what rights were violated or which ones they could use to protect themselves in each situation.
A third activity was to present a text and fill in the blanks with concepts related to the tasks of the Constitutional Court.
