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On May 18, the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world championship of science competitions, ended in Los Angeles, writes Magyar Nemzet. Two young Hungarians (Szilveszter Laskai and Ádám Vajda) were invited to the event on the basis of their excellent results in the National Science and Innovation Olympiad organized by the Hungarian Association for Innovation and the EU final.
János Pakucs, chairman of the national organizing committee, stressed that the Hungarian students had achieved outstanding success at the international event, with Ádám Vajda receiving a commendation and Szilveszter Laskai a prestigious fourth place.
Nearly 2,000 students from seventy countries competed in the ISEF.
Szilveszter Laskai, a student from Fazekas Mihály High School in Debrecen (eastern Hungary), represented Hungary with his project “Design of Traction Inverter With SiC Semiconductors,” winning him the special prize at the European competition last September. Laskai developed a SiC-MOSFET based inverter optimized for traction. It has excellent applicability as a general-purpose inverter and has an energy density 60 percent higher than a commercially available inverter of similar performance. As an innovative device to increase energy efficiency, the SiC inverter can be an adequate response to the challenges of changes in the economic and ecological environment.
Ádám Vajda, an outstanding student at ELTE’s Radnóti Miklós Affiliated Secondary School, entered the competition with his project “Human Body Key Point Estimation Based on FMCW Radar Image,” focusing on the practical application of radar-based pose recognition methods.
Speaking at the award ceremony, Maya Ajmera, President and CEO of the Society for Science, proudly declared that after ISEF, she left Los Angeles confident that the world was in good hands.
Science is transforming the world, and the young scientists and researchers who are here are the essential drivers of this process.
The Hungarian delegation was headed by Zsófia Pazsák, Deputy Executive Director of the Hungarian Association for Innovation and one of the main organizers of the National Science and Innovation Olympiad, a Hungarian youth competition.
Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured image via Facebook/Országos Tudományos és Innovációs Olimpia