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Awarded to Chilean students in competition "Bike to School"

"Cycling we BKN" is the winning slogan contest organized by the National Energy Commission (CNE), to encourage cycling in the city of Santiago.

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In a ceremony today at the Metropolitan Park is the prize of the contest conducted "Bike to School" organized by the National Energy Efficiency Program (PPEE) of the National Energy Commission (CNE) .

The activity released the winning poster will be part of the Campaign Promoting the Use of the Bicycle CicloSantiago , driven by the government to encourage the use of such means of transport in the capital.

The ceremony was attended by the director of PPEE Andres Romero , the representative of CicloSantiago Cesar Garrido , bicycling organizations, students, teachers and families of schools Santa Cecilia, John Dewey and the Modern Multi-Purpose High School Cardenal Caro Buin.

About 180 students throughout the Region Metropolitan involving creating posters with slogans that creative hope to encourage school students to think about the benefits of cycling in the city of Santiago.

"Cycling we BKN" was the winning slogan was created by the students Javier Sánchez Gómez, Paulina Martinez and Constanza Allende Saldias Santis, the second half of the Colegio Santa Cecilia.

The winners took 30 bikes fully equipped Oxford, safety equipment and a parking for these bikes.

The activity was held at Metropolitan Park Plaza Tower, where there were different competitions for the participants, those who arrived by bicycle to the site.

PPEE The director said that the competition "Bike to School" was intended as a fun way to invite the youth of the metropolitan area to reflect on the advantages of using this means of transport, and thus encourage its use in a city with problems of congestion and pollution as Santiago.

"As government, we understand that bicycling is good for the environment, improves the fitness of their users, helping to control rising rates of obesity among schoolchildren in Chile, and above all is an efficient means of transport by not using fuel, "said Andres Romero.