14 Russian-speaking guys entered the top 100 young scientists at the Google contest

This week ended one of the main stages of the Google Science Fair Young Scientists Contest, in which the company selected 100 best ideas from around the world. The finalists included participants from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan who will compete for the top prize of $ 50 000 for training. In total, the organizers of the competition this year received several thousand applications for participation in the Google Science Fair from 107 countries of the world, writes the Internet portal AIN.

The competition involves young scientists in the age from 13 to 18 years.

From Russia to the finals:

• Mikhail Shevin (15 years old) from Izhevsk with the project “The ability to recognize numbers provided by a vibration matrix by touch.”
• Maxim Savinov (15 years old) from Moscow with the “Spiral Gear Transmission” project.
• Mark Lipnevich (16 years old) from Kaliningrad “Physiotherapy for the development of oculomotor activity in schoolchildren.”
• Varvara Dubrovina (15 years old) from St. Petersburg with the project “Photosynthetic bioreactor for a life support system during space expeditions.”
• Grigory Podoksik (14 years old) from St. Petersburg with the project “EXODUS: a device for linking physical activity to a computer, turning sports into a computer game.”
• Leonid Kim (18 years old) from Kaliningrad with the project “Distribution of visual attention in adolescents with varying degrees of addiction to video games.”
• Elizaveta Bogdanova (14 years old) and Matvey Urvantsev (15 years old) from Chernogolovka with the project “ErgBusterz: fascinating energy”.
• Nikita Grushetsky (15 years old) from Novosibirsk with the project “The simplest methods for high-precision measurement of the main parameters of plane-parallel glass plates.”

From Ukraine to the finals:

• Nikita Gordienko (17 years old) from Kyiv with the project “How to recognize accumulated fatigue and prevent the irreparable.”
• Daniil Kuznetsov (15 years old) from Dnepr with the project “The role of the properties of heliosynchronous orbits in the terraforming of planets using substances readily available in space.”
• Anton Tikhonenko (15 years old) from Lubna with the project “Functional prosthetic arm for patients with ectrodactyly.”
• The youngest participant is Polina Khadeeva (13 years old) from Odessa with the project “Photometric study of asteroid 2012 LC1”.

From Belarus to the finals out:

• Ivan Saetchnikov (18 years old) from Minsk with the project “PerSat - a modular platform for remote analysis of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere.”

From Kazakhstan to the finals:

• Lyudmila Rvanova (17 years old) from Petropavlovsk with the project “Analysis of the dynamics of stellar magnitudes using computer vision algorithms.”

Competition winners will be announced on 11 August 2016. The jury will select all the 16 best projects that will be awarded on 28 on September 2016 of the year in Mountain View, California. The main prize is a $ 50 000 training grant.

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