A total of 242 high school students are competing this April in the Municipal Art and Culture Festivals organized by the Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos de Baja California Sur (CECyTE BCS), the state’s technical and scientific high school system. Events are taking place in Mulegé, Comondú, La Paz, and Los Cabos.
All 242 participants earned their spots by winning internal competitions at their respective campuses. They are now representing their schools in 10 disciplines: painting, sculpture, photography, singing, poetry, oratory, short story, declamation, chess, and flag escort ceremonies.
Path to the State and National Finals
Top finishers from each municipal stage will advance to the state final on June 17 at CECyT 08 in La Paz. State winners will then represent Baja California Sur at the national CECyTE competition, scheduled for October in Tlaxcala.
The annual festival follows a three-tier structure. Students first compete within their own campus, then at the municipal level, and finally at the state level before heading to nationals. CECyTE BCS operates campuses across all four municipalities in Baja California Sur, including locations in Todos Santos, San José del Cabo, Vizcaíno, and Ciudad Constitución.
BCS Students Have a Track Record at Nationals
The state’s CECyTE students have performed well in past national competitions. At a recent national festival held in Aguascalientes, BCS students earned second-place finishes in both singing and oratory. Rosy Airany Carballo Rosas from CECyT 02 in Todos Santos placed second in singing, while Nahima Higuera Mayoral from EMSaD 11 in San Isidro took second in oratory.
In 2022, the state finals in La Paz drew representatives from all 23 CECyTE campuses in the state. Winners that year came from locations across the peninsula, including Mulegé, San Lucas, Vizcaíno, and Todos Santos.
What Is CECyTE BCS?
CECyTE is a national network of publicly funded technical high schools (educación media superior) that blend standard academic coursework with vocational training. The BCS branch serves students across some of the peninsula’s most remote communities through its main campuses and smaller EMSaD (Educación Media Superior a Distancia) satellite centers. The institution signed a collaboration agreement with the Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura in 2023 to strengthen arts programming through 2027.
The April municipal festivals are open to the public. Specific dates and venues for each municipality have not been published online but can be confirmed through local CECyTE campuses.
This story was reported using information from the Baja California Sur state government website, bcs.gob.mx.