Czechs win main prize in EU Contest for Young Scientists

Two Czech students, Miroslav Rapčák and David Pegřímek, have won the prestigious main prize in this year’s European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Lisbon. The students competed in the physics category and their work was based on a computer simulation of carbon dioxide molecule clusters. On a practical level, their conclusions could help in the process of storing carbon dioxide on the ocean-floor as a means of protecting the environment. Rapčák and Pegřímek, who are from a secondary school in Orlová, north Moravia, also won the Swedish Academy’s prize for best student work.