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IFIA Mag azine

YOUNG March 2019 IFIA Mag azine

INVENTORS

WITH GREAT

POTENTIAL AT

IENA 2018

Young inventors always play a big role at the iENA. Every
year students show an enormously high innovation poten-
tial and inspire visitors and representatives of the economy.

“Jugend forscht” prize winners at the iENA 2018

“Jugend forscht” encourages and supports young people in
science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The
contest seeks to inspire talented achievers and to help them with
their careers. “Jugend forscht” holds more than 110 competitions
throughout Germany every year in order to arouse the interest of
children and young people for STEM subjects and to discover and
promote talents in a targeted way at an early stage.
The disposal of waste is a problem in space missions. So far, the waste
generated on the International Space Station (ISS), for example, has
been disposed of by burning it in the Earth’s atmosphere. The inventors
Adrian Schorowsky (18), Leni Termann (18) and Lara Neubert (18) from
Rostock developed the idea to melt plastics on board the station in order
to produce new material – the so called filament – as a raw material for use
in 3D printers.

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