The results of the ninth annual European Youth Researches the Environment
contest were announced in Berlin. Two Kyiv-born sixteen year olds, Bohdan
and Andriy Tovchenko, were announced the winners. They had developed an
effective industrial technology for purifying gasses, built on converting
poisonous carbon monoxide into harmless carbon dioxide. The German Minister
of Education, Science, Research, and Technology Edelhard Bulman awarded
them their prize, DM 8000, at a ceremony in the Berlin Drama Theater. Ministry
press secretary Frau Baun told The Day that the international jury
was amazed at the project's solid theoretical and practical basis. The
boys received also a special prize - they will fly to Brazil for an international
research congress. Young scientists from Northern Ireland were second in
the summary and Dutch youngsters were third. Over a hundred young researchers
from 38 European countries presented for the contest 62 environmental protection
projects, according to correspondent Viktor TYMCHENKO from Germany.
Ukrainian High Schoolers First in Europe
1 December, 1998 - 00:00
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