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THE OUTSTANDING HONOR FOR successful DEV-KIT-project of young in- March 2019 IFIA Mag azine
ventors in German Invention Association
WORLDWIDE ENGAGEMENT IS (DEV). The almost innovative high-tech

inventions of the HAG-team have been
GRANTED TO WINFRIED STURM presented worldwide at many IFIA-sup-
ported invention fairs emphasizing the
importance of early youth assistance.

The Outstanding Honor for Worldwide Engagement was awarded to Most importantly, as a participant of
IFIA Youth Network Manager, Winfried Sturm, at iENA-2018 interna- many worldwide invention fairs, he ini-
tional invention fair. tiated cooperation with universities, vis-
ited a lot of schools and contacted po-
Motivated by the absence of technical options in former communistic litical institutions with commendatory
part of Germany, Mr. Sturm started searching in backyards for scrap feedback of German Ambassadors in the
metal aiming to assemble these to a running bicycle in 1955 as a young respective countries.
boy of 10. Endurance and single-mindedness has been so far his path- Worth mentioning are his exceptional
finder for a successful life as an inventor, lateral thinker, physicist and experiences as lifelong educationalist
scientist. with a special feeling for youth. For this
reason Mr. Sturm was elected by IFIA-
As a passionate high-school teacher, he founded in 1982 his worldwide President, Alireza Rastegar, as IFIA-Youth-
prosperous student-invention-group (HAG) which is well known as a Network-Manager and an engaged IFIA-
supporter for young inventors.
In addition, Mr. Sturm provided his par-
ticular knowledge as an inventor and
natural scientist in international jury-
board as organizer and head of evalua-
tion-groups for young inventors.

Due to these distinguished activities and
honorary dedication he was awarded
at German invention fair iENA-2018 in
Nuremberg by AFAG-Chairman and iE-
NA-Project-Leader Mr. Henning Könicke
with the iENA-Special-Award. In the
speech the focus was pointed out of
the initiated international understand-
ing as international STEM-Ambassador
(Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics) and as IFIA-Youth-
Network-Manager linked with “bridge-
building-effect“” between different
countries to overcome national, cultural
and religious barriers.

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