Ukrainian High Schoolers First in Europe
01 декабря, 00:00
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.
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№43, (1998)Section
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