From 13rd to 18th of May Pittsburgh (USA) has hosted the International Science and Engineering Fair Intel ISEF, which was attended by more than 1,000 students from 75 countries. The Intel ISEF competition is sometimes called the "Small Nobel prize" – more than 20 future Nobel laureates became Intel ISEF prize-winners, being students. The national team of the Russian Federation included the team of winners and prize-winners of the Russian contest of scientific works of schoolchildren "Junior" (organized by MEPhI).
The team members of Junior contest Irina Belousova and Roman Nikolaenko won the prizes of the Intel ISEF. Irina Belousova’s work on the synthesis of derivatives of 5-fluorine, 5-phenyltripamine, potential anticancer drugs have been awarded the title of winner of the second degree. The project of the student of the Lyceum №1511 (MEPhI Pre-university) Roman Nikolaenko was dedicated to the development of a portable detector of wide atmospheric showers of particles and made on the basis of SEC NEVOD at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI; he was awarded a prize of the fourth degree. Throughout the history of the Intel ISEF competition Russia has received the award in physics only four times, two of them were received by students of the MEPhI Pre-university (the first time in 2015, the second time this year), which indicates its high scientific school. It’s worth noting that both works were performed under the guidance of the staff of the SEC NEVOD.
Roman Nikolaenko and Irina Belousova
In total, five projects from the "Junior" contest were selected to participate in the Intel ISEF:
in the section "Physics and astronomy”
* Roman Nikolaenko (Lyceum 1511, Pre-university, MEPhI, Moscow);
* Maxim Mamchur (Samara Regional Center for Gifted Children, Samara);
in the section "Chemistry”
* Irina Belousova (Secondary School named after Marshal V. I. Chuikov, Moscow);
* Elizaveta Sovdagarova (Secondary School named after Marshal V. I. Chuikov, Moscow) and Vladimir Kharitonov (Secondary School named after Marshal V. I. Chuikov, Moscow);
in the section "Mathematics”
* Egor Batarin (Lyceum 1523, Pre-university of MEPhI, Moscow).
Once again the success of the "Junior" team confirmed the high level of our competition.
Congratulations to the winners and organizers of the "Junior" competition on achievements in prestigious international intellectual competitions!
Russian competition of scientific works of school students "Junior" is held in MEPhI since 1998 in natural and technical directions with the purpose of developing interest to creative project activity among students of 9-11 grades.
