Hungarian secondary school students awarded at EU Contest for Young Scientists

The finals of the contest held annually for promising young scientists aged 14 to 20 involved 114 projects from 34 countries, the association said.

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) Prize went to Boglarka Ecsedi from Bocskai Istvan Secondary School, in Hajduboszormeny, for her project dubbed Rip Current Detection – An Orientation-aware Machine Learning Approach.

The University of Salamanca’s Salamanca Cancer Research Center (CIC) Prize went to Erik Seitz from the Benedictine Secondary School of Pannonhalma for a project dubbed Development of a new, multicellular network model of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and finding a new potential drug target by building hybrid EMT in the model.

Gabor Gergo Balazs from Bolyai Janos Secondary School, in Bolya, was awarded the Wolfram Research Prize for his project dubbed In the footsteps of an invisible companion around an exotic eclipsing binary star system.