UK's big success at prestigious EU Competition for Young Scientists
Two of the winners at the 2008 Young Scientists’ and Engineers’ Fair have gone on to have outstanding success at the EU Contest for Young Scientists held in Copenhagen, Denmark: Teleri Edwards from Howells School, North Wales, won the European Patent Office Prize, while Elisabeth Muller from Bedford High School, Milton Keynes, won First Prize.
Both 18-year-olds had to present the projects that had previously gained them Gold CREST Awards and a trip to the EU competition to several judges over three days of grueling sessions in Copenhagen. They were competing against a further 100-plus students from 39 countries around Europe and the rest of the world.
For her project, Teleri designed a laser security lock with many practical applications. Elisabeth worked in a completely different field, investigating the early processes that shaped the moon by looking at the mineralogy of a lunar meteorite sample.
Doing a CREST Award has really opened up a world of opportunities for these two students: for her prize, Teleri will receive a five-day visit of a technical and cultural nature to the European Patent Office in Munich, while Elisabeth, in addition to receiving €7000 towards her future studies, will be offered a place to attend the prestigious and stylish Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar at the end of the year. There she will, among other things, get to meet Nobel prize winners and listen to talks and debates on the latest scientific research.
Elisabeth also won the Royal Society International Expedition Prize at the Young Scientists’ and Engineers’ Fair and will be setting off with James Stefaniak, the other winner of that prize, in December.
Both Elisabeth and Teleri say they really enjoyed their experiences in Copenhagen and are looking forward to what comes next.
Elisabeth said: ‘I am so excited about attending the Stockholm event and being able to meet Nobel prize winners and find out about the latest research going on.
‘Being a part of events like this and the national event in the UK has just made me more determined to get my degree and carry on in science as far as I can go. I look forward to going back to the CREST national finals in March as a judge and seeing the next students to attend the EU competition. They are going to have such a great time.’
Teleri said: ‘I am really honoured to have been chosen for this out of all these great projects, and I cannot wait to go to Munich and have a look at the other inventions that people have come up with over the years.
‘I have really enjoyed exhibiting at the EU competition. I came for the experience as well as to compete and I have met so many lovely people I will be sad to leave them all.’
Both 18-year-olds had to present the projects that had previously gained them Gold CREST Awards and a trip to the EU competition to several judges over three days of grueling sessions in Copenhagen. They were competing against a further 100-plus students from 39 countries around Europe and the rest of the world.
For her project, Teleri designed a laser security lock with many practical applications. Elisabeth worked in a completely different field, investigating the early processes that shaped the moon by looking at the mineralogy of a lunar meteorite sample.
Doing a CREST Award has really opened up a world of opportunities for these two students: for her prize, Teleri will receive a five-day visit of a technical and cultural nature to the European Patent Office in Munich, while Elisabeth, in addition to receiving €7000 towards her future studies, will be offered a place to attend the prestigious and stylish Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar at the end of the year. There she will, among other things, get to meet Nobel prize winners and listen to talks and debates on the latest scientific research.
Elisabeth also won the Royal Society International Expedition Prize at the Young Scientists’ and Engineers’ Fair and will be setting off with James Stefaniak, the other winner of that prize, in December.
Both Elisabeth and Teleri say they really enjoyed their experiences in Copenhagen and are looking forward to what comes next.
Elisabeth said: ‘I am so excited about attending the Stockholm event and being able to meet Nobel prize winners and find out about the latest research going on.
‘Being a part of events like this and the national event in the UK has just made me more determined to get my degree and carry on in science as far as I can go. I look forward to going back to the CREST national finals in March as a judge and seeing the next students to attend the EU competition. They are going to have such a great time.’
Teleri said: ‘I am really honoured to have been chosen for this out of all these great projects, and I cannot wait to go to Munich and have a look at the other inventions that people have come up with over the years.
‘I have really enjoyed exhibiting at the EU competition. I came for the experience as well as to compete and I have met so many lovely people I will be sad to leave them all.’
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