Bauman 2005-eng Blok To the Contestants and Guests of the

Mari SARV

City/Region: Kohtla-Järve

School: Kohtla-Järve Järve Gymnasium

Career intention: Veterinarian

Hobbies: Music, dancing, singing

e-mail: [e-mail]

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FINLAND

DEVELOPING AND CONSTRUCTING AN EMISSION SPECTROMETER 

AND VISIBLE AREA SPECTRAL ANALYSES OF VARIOUS LIGHT SOURCES

Timo PAAVOLA 

City/Region: Oulu

School: Kastellin lukio – upper

secondary school

Career intention: Engineer

Hobbies: Literature (fact and fiction),

skiing and badminton, occassionally

e-mail: [e-mail]

and [e-mail]

MICROBIOLOGY OF LEAD CONTAMINATED SOIL – PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING ACTIVITIES AMONG

PSEUDOMONAS SPP. ISOLATED FROM SHOOTING RANGE

Emma Maria HAAPANIEMI

City/Region: Helsinki 

School: Comprehensive school done,

half of matriculation examenation

Career intention: Pediatric

hematologist/oncologist

Hobbies: Music (clarinet, piano),

writing, drawing, “medicine”

e-mail: [e-mail]

A spectrometer analyses the radiation emitted or absorbed by matter. The instrument I have developed and built is an emission

spectrometer. Visible light emitted by a light source is dispersed into different components or colours. Light emitting chemical

elements can be identified through measuring the intensity of the dispersed light components or wavelengths. The method is

called a spectrum analysis.

An original device was constructed using mainly materials and equipment commonly at hand, such as wood, metal, cardboard,

clay, folio and an electric drilling machine. A working spectrometer has been built without advanced technological equipment

or special materials. With my device, I conducted spectral analyses of many light sources, such as a fluorescent lamp, an UV-

lamp and two fluorescent materials (zinc sulphide and white print paper). The first phase of the project lasted from the late

summer of 2004 to the end of February in 2005.

In my research I studied bacteria (Pseudomonad) isolated from lead polluted soil (in practice from a shooting range). The aims

were to find out which bacteria species there were and also to evaluate their skills to produce certain biologically active

complexes. In the future, bacteria from the contaminated area could be used to its biological cleaning so that the bacteria would

be put on the plant’s root system where it would help the plant to suck lead or another contaminant from the soil and also help

it to grow in stressful circumstances. After that the plant is destroyed properly. 

FRANCE

FURTHER AND QUICKER WITH DESCARTES AND A COMPASS

Jacques BOIS

City/Region: L’Etrat

School: Externat Saint-Tlichel

Career intention: Photograph 

or Civil Engineer

Hobbies: Tennis, Hand-ball, photo,

lecture, hitch-hiking

e-mail: [e-mail].

Jean-Baptiste GUY

City/Region: Saint-Etienne

School: Lycée Saint Michel

Career intention: Engineer in Physics

Hobbies: Dancing, orienteering, chess

e-mail: [e-mail]

This project studies the refraction laws of optics –  Snell’s laws –  in orienteering race in the woods. To go from A in a

transparent medium to B in another transparent medium, light goes through the path of least time (not the shortest distance):

light changes it’s direction, refracts, somewhere at the frontier between the two media.  The project shows experimentally that

this law holds if you have to run from A to B in two different terrains: if you want to win and be the first, don’t run straight from

A to B, don’t take the shortest path in space, but the shortest path in time.  Furthermore, optics and racing in anisotropic media

with two indexes of refraction have also been studied.

Paul de SURMONT

City/Region: Saint-Etienne

School: Lycée Saint Michel – Saint Etienne

Career intention: Biophysician

Hobbies: Sports, science and Tourism

e-mail: [e-mail]

THE SPEED METER FOR ROLLER BLADE 

Carole DUFOUR

City/Region: Meximieux

School: Lycée de la Côtiére

Career intention: Engineer 

Hobbies: Table tennis, Reading, 

Music (violin)

e-mail: [e-mail]

Jonathan FAUGIER-TOVAR

City/Region: La Boisse

School: Lycée de la Côtiére

Career intention: 

Hobbies:

e-mail: [e-mail]

It seems no speedometer for roller blades exists in the market, therefore the actors of this project have built such a speedometer.

The device not only measures the speed, but transmits it through radio waves to a hand held LCD screen!

Francois SIMPLEX

City/Region: Dagneux 

School: Lycée de la Côtiére à La Boisse

Career intention: Technician in electronics

Hobbies: Sport, music, going outside with friends

e-mail: [e-mail]

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GEORGIA

RECOGNISING CANCER CELL: DOES MALIGNIZATION CHANGE NUCLEOLAR STRUCTURE?

Ekatherine BAKRADZE

City/Region: Tbilisi

School: Medical College “Ayety”

Career intention: Doctor

Hobbies: Music, dance, reading

Practical consideration conditioned the interest in the nucleolar ultrastructure of tumor cells. Along with traditional diagnostic

criteria, the specific properties of the nucleolar organization can serve for the differential diagnostics of malignant and benign

tumors. Generally a tumor tissue provides much more structural variations of nucleoli, than as observed in culture, where

nucleolus in most cases gets unified, acquiring either a nucleolonemal or compact structure, and shows no specific features. The

study of tumor tissue nucleolus is therefore particularly important as offering an opportunity to observe the expression of

ribosomal genes depending on the functional state of the tissue during cancerogenesis. This research focused on spatial

rearrangement and 3D modeling of the nucleolar ultrastructure in human mammary gland benign (fibroadenoma), non

invasive (in situ carcinoma) and highly invasive (infiltrating ductal carcinoma) tumor cells.  

GERMANY

LAB ON THE CHIP – NEW PERSPECTIVES WITH ELECTRONS AS UNIVERSAL REAGENT

Stephen SCHULZ

City/Region: Gelsenkirchen

School: Gesamtschule Buer-Mitte

Career intention: Chemist with

specialization for organic

electrochemistry

Hobbies: Doing chemistry in my own

laboratory, repairing and constructing

laboratory equipment and last but not

least playing electric guitar

e-mail: [e-mail]

The synthesis of organomagnesium and organolithium compounds with anodic polarization enables these reagents to be

prepared more easily and in a more controlled manner in a high yield. 

This catalytic method has made it possible for the first time to deposit magnesium electrolytically from inorganic salts. The

catalyst used could serve in micro structuring technology for the electrolytic deposition of magnesium, instead of the use of

dangerous compounds.

The concept of preparing organometallic compounds from cathodically generated carbanions and anodically generated metal

cations has been implemented for the first time here for the preparation of known and unknown copper (I) compounds, i.e.

organonitrilocopper (I) compounds for chemotherapy. 

The combination of two electrochemical synthesis concepts and specially modified miniaturization techniques has provided the

basis for better preparation and consequently simpler use of organometallic reagents which are important, for example, in the

area research on and production of pharmaceutics.

CORNERS IN WATER – UNEXPECTED SYMMETRY BREAKING IN FLUID DYNAMICS

Igor GOTLIBOVYCH

City/Region: München

School: Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium

Career intention: Physicist

Hobbies: Aikido, fitness, swimming

e-mail: [e-mail]

Daily, we observe a “water jump” in the kitchen sink, when a fluid jet hits a horizontal surface and spreads out radially in a thin

layer. At some distance, the water height suddenly increases. A simple experimental setup allowed the actors of this project to

observe the hydraulic jump under laboratory conditions. They obtained surprising results: under certain conditions the circular

jump forms polygonal patterns. The hydraulic jump is a well-discussed topic in hydrodynamics, but nevertheless nobody has yet

explained the appearance of corners quantitatively!

PHYSICS OF VENTRILOQUISM

Jörg METZNER

City/Region: Friedrichsdorf

School: Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium

Career intention:Engineer

Hobbies: Maths, physics, soccer, 

tennis, reading

Ventriloquism may be imagined as a form of speech without lip or jaw movement. The omission of lip movements is substituted

by adroit movements of articulators such as the tongue in the vocal tract. Particular difficulties arise in relation to sounds, which

require that the lips be almost closed. In this project it is shown that it is physically possible for two sounds which are perceived

as the same to have a different vocal tract geometry. Using an articulatory speech model program the substitute sounds are

simulated and analysed with the aid of their spectra and spectrograms. The examinations show that only the spectral range

which is of relevance for the speech recognition is important for ventriloquism.

Renate LANDIG

City/Region: Bad Saulgau

School: Störck-Gymnasium

Career intention: Physicist

Hobbies: Playing the piano, fitness, riding, swimming

e-mail: [e-mail]

Marcel SCHMITTFULL

City/Region: Bad Saulgau

School: Celtis-Gymnasium Schweinfurt

Career intention: Something like physicist/mathematician

Hobbies: maths, physics, programming, soccer, volleyball,

reading

e-mail: [e-mail]

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HUNGARY

NEW METHOD AND INITIAL TESTS OF DRUG CANDIDATES AGAINST ATHEROSCLEROSIS, HEART DISEASE,

STROKE AND SEPTIC SHOCK

Adrienn Nikoletta KOCSIS

City/Region: Halasztelek

School: “Fazekas Mihaly” 

Secondary School

Career intention: Medical doctor,

medical researcher

Hobbies: Reading, swimming, playing

on piano, riding on bicycle, taking

tours in mountains 

e-mail: [e-mail]

The rate of cardiovascular diseases is increasing in modern societies. It is very difficult for medical research to examine the

factors, which play a role in this process. Long-term examination of the efficiency of new medicines is also difficult and often

needs the death of hundreds of laboratory animals. 

In this project, a model system was elaborated, where drug-candidates can be tested on living, conscious animals with a minimal

pain and harm. 

MORPHOLOGIC AND NEUROCHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF THE CENTRAL INNERVATION 

OF ANTRUM AND DUODENUM

Péter KURUCZ

City/Region: Fonyód

School: Rudnay Gyula 

Secondary School

Career intention: Doctor (Neurologist)

Hobbies: Science, 

Playing the guitar, drawing 

e-mail: [e-mail]

Nowadays the neural mechanism of the ulcer formation is unidentified. This project is a long-term effort to identify the neural

regulatory pattern of the two most important regions responsible for ulcer formation, the antrum of the stomach and the

duodenum of the intestine. Our aim in this study was to discover the overlap between antrum- and duodenum-specific neurons

as well as their neurotransmitter pattern in the brain, which can play an important role in the formation of ulcer. 

TRACING OF BURGLAR’S ROUTE, COMPLEX INSPECTION SYSTEM

Ákos KAPUI

City/Region: Taksony

School: Jedlik Ányos Secondary School

Career intention: Developer

Hobbies: Any kind of Sports (Football,

Volleyball, Snowboard, etc.) 

e-mail: [e-mail] or

[e-mail]

There are a lot of apparatus working in homes, holiday houses and other buildings that can break down or cause malfunction.

In this project, a system is elaborated which sends more correct information. The 3 contraptions that were created are able to

control machines, devices, and are able to forward safeguarding sensors’ warnings and also to trace burglars.

The Computational Supervisory System: The system is able to visualize the supervised sensor’s state of a house, machine, or a

device. The program is also able to send an SMS by cellular phone (connected to the computer) when an error occurs.

Mobile Supervisory System: The system’s installation point isn’t fixed, it can be moved from one room to another or it can be

moved to the neighborhood, within a range of 300 meters. It informs the owner by messages on its display in case of

malfunction, thus, the breakdown can be located easily.  

Telephone Supervisory System: The system helps keeping  connection with a holiday house or a distant device by phone. 

ICELAND

CUDDLE-ME CLOTHES

Una Guo laug SVEINSDÓTTIR

City/Region: Akureyri

School: The Akureyri Junior College

Career intention: Teacher, 

writer, journalist

Hobbies: Scouting, music, reading, writing

and I am a member of a rescue unit

e-mail: [e-mail]

Lilý Erla ADAMSDÓTTIR

City/Region: Akureyri

School: The Akureyri Junior College

Career intention: Otologist

Hobbies: Sewing, art, craft and traveling

e-mail: [e-mail]

Infant massage helps the child to adjust to the world after its birth. It is an effective way to strengthen the bond between a parent

and a child. It also helps with some physical problems the children might have, for example stomach aches, and makes the child

calmer. Many researchers have studied this. 

Vonda K. Jump did a research on the effects of infant massage on attachment security and found out that there was indeed a

connection. It is the belief of the researchers that parents will rather use infant massage if they have something in their

environment that reminds them of using it and also of how to do the strokes. It has been shown that “learning by doing” can

be very effective (John Dewey). Therefore the researchers designed a massage bodysuit for infants. The participants showed in

most cases a very positive reaction to the massage bodysuit and it is clear that this is a product that interests parents.

Valdís Ösp JÓNSDÓTTIR

City/Region: Akureyri

School: The Akureyri Junior College

Career intention: Psychologist or teacher

Hobbies: Scouts, reading, hiking, movies 

and I am a member of a rescue unit

e-mail: [e-mail]

Tímea MICSKÓ

City/Region: Szolnok

School: Varga Katalin secondary School

Career intention: Doctor

Hobbies: Dancing, sports, 

listening to music 

e-mail: [e-mail]

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IRELAND

CROMA: A NEW DIALECT OF LISP

Patrick COLLISON 

City/Region: Tipperary

School: Castletroy College

Career intention: Unsure

Hobbies: Programming, 

reading, running

e-mail: [e-mail]

Croma has two goals:to improve web application development, and to create a better dialect of Lisp. 

Today, writing sophisticated web applications is notoriously complex. Over the past five years there has been an explosion of

competing languages and framework to assist the writing web applications. 

Croma, a new programming language created from scratch, was designed with web programming in mind.  Using an integrated

web-server and Croma’s support for “continuations”, Croma allows web-applications to be intuitively and naturally modeled in

functional style. Programmers needn’t worry about the stateless nature of HTTP.  

Web-applications written in Croma are vastly shorter than in other languages, faster also, and therefore cheaper to develop.  

ISRAEL

PREPARATION OF DNA LIBRARIES FOR DIRECTED EVOLUTION

Fowad HASONA 

City/Region: Lod

School: Orthodox school

Career intention: a scientist for genetic

Hobbies: watch TV, sports, reading

articles of science

e-mail: [e-mail],

[e-mail]

The aim of this work is to prepare gene libraries derived from the Im7 gene that encodes for a DNase inhibitor (DNase is an

enzyme which cuts DNA) in bacteria. The libraries will be used for directed evolution of a new DNase inhibitor. In directed

evolution we mimic the process of natural evolution of proteins, in order to study how evolution occurs in nature and

understand the connection between the protein's structure and its function. 

THE EFFECT OF DIETARY COMPONENTS ON THE DOPAMINE MECHANISM IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Ronit SHAPIRA

City/Region: Rishon-Lezion

School: “Gymnasium Realit” - 

high school

Career intention: Biologist

Hobbies: reading books, painting,

listening to music

e-mail: [e-mail]

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a disorder of movement, consequent to incessant loss of the dopamine containing neurons of the

substantia nigra pars compacta.  This study investigates the influence of DHA on the dopamine neurotransmission mechanism

in Parkinson’s disease and the protective role of DHA on dopaminergic neurons against oxidative stress. My results suggest that

a diet deficiency of DHA damages the function of dopamine and its receptors, while a diet sufficiency of DHA prevents oxidative

stress damages on the dopaminergis system. These insights will lead to the development of medicines, which will be based on

DHA supplements as treatment to prevent Parkinson’s disease.       

AN ADVANCED SUN SENSOR MODEL FOR PICO-SATELLITES 

Yonatan WINETRAUB

City/Region: Holon

School: school of Handesaim, 

Tel Aviv University

Career intention: Space Engineer

Hobbies: basketball, astrophysics,

music, computer games

e-mail: [e-mail]

San BITAN

City/Region: Tel Aviv

School: school of Handesaim, 

Tel Aviv University

Career intention: theoretical 

math and physics

Hobbies: music, guitar, 

philosophy, astronomy

e-mail: [e-mail]

As miniaturization progresses we can see more and more products in every field shrink down to a smaller size. A new type of

satellites is popping up at space: the pico-satellites weighting less than one kg.  As of today, these small satellites, at the size of

a cell phone, are capable of performing several important tasks; one of them is monitoring the operation of larger satellites.

One of the greatest challenges in the design of pico-satellites is to reach high accuracy in determining the pointing direction of

the payload (camera); which is the main problem in the field of monitoring.

In our project we developed a novel model that allows these satellites to gain that accuracy and therefore opens a new arena

for modern space engineering.

Yuval NATIV

City/Region: Kfar Sava

School: school of Handesaim, Tel Aviv University

Career intention: Unknown. Might be everything

Hobbies: astrophysics, guitars, sketching, music

e-mail: [e-mail]

ITALY

PROVISIONAL STUDY ON PLANT ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS BASED ON RENEWABLE 

ENERGY SOURCES TO FEED A STANDARD CONGRESS - CATERING CENTRE: PROVISIONAL 

PLANT ANALYSIS AND REVIEW OF THE SELECTED SOLUTIONS 

Fabio COLETTA

City/Region: Treviglio

School: Instituto professionale di Stato Servizi 

Alberghieri di San Pellegrino Terme (Bergamo)

Career intention: I would like to become reality lab 

as my passion and also I hope my work becoming

in the earlier future as software engineering

Hobbies: I’m always interesting of all concerning 

the Information Technology

e-mail: [e-mail]

This project focuses on the way which we use electric energy, i.e. without worrying about environmental aspects.

How much energy does a conventional centre consume ?

What would be the output of a renewable energy centre, would there be enough to feed a big structure (f.ex. a

conference centre). 

I focalised on the summer period because of the bigger consumption of energy (conditioning system and the

refrigerating machine about 380 kW.)

Two alternatives ideas came out of this research concerning implantation solutions: geothermic system and

hydroelectric pumping of equal power.

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DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF ROAD HUMPS

Michele BOLZONI

City/Region: Cremona

School: Liceo scientifico statale 

“G. Aselli”

Career intention: teacher

Hobbies: music, choir

e-mail: [e-mail]

Imagine the following situation: you are comfortably sitting in your car and suddenly you find a road hump that gives you a lot

of discomfort. Why do you have to tolerate this unease even if you are travelling under the speed limit? Is it possible to find out

an “intelligent” road hump giving a lot of discomfort ONLY to drivers travelling at high speed? We thought it possible. We have

led a dynamic analysis in which we tried to describe what happens when a car comes over a road hump. Using the computer

we realised a simple-using “virtual lab” deriving the whole dynamics of the system “car” for a set of hundred different speeds,

quantifying the discomfort of the driver at each speed. With this device one can easily study, as we did, the existing road humps.

Moreover, we derived some road hump profiles possessing the features of “intelligence” we were looking for: a little discomfort

for allowed speed and remarkable discomfort for high speed.

GENES AND GAMES