Our participation in the Jugend Forscht competition

High requirement

In the competition, the participants present their projects at their exhibition stand, which they can freely design with posters, photos or models. The jury discussions also take place there. Once all the stands have been set up, the assessment of the projects begins. At the jury meeting, the young talents first briefly present their project and the results of their research work. They then answer questions from the judges.
Each subject area has its own panel of experts from science, business and schools. The jury members evaluate the projects on the basis of the written elaboration, the visual (design of the exhibition stand) and the oral (jury discussion) presentation.
It is not easy to get a place at all. Martijn’s jury consisted of a computer science professor, a maths professor and an IT specialist from industry. Xiaotian’s jury consisted of two chemistry professors, a chemistry graduate, a biology teacher and a representative from the chemical industry.

For our very first participation, their placings are a great success. Martijn was also offered an internship at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics by one of the examiners. The jury also suggested to him that if he were to pursue the project further, he could make something “really big” out of it. However, in typical Martijn fashion, he rejected this outright – he would like to build a remote-controlled car next 🙂

I will try to pass his project on to another IT-talented student, as it has great potential to win the national competition.

Moritz Morsch
Head of MINT Centre