{"id":45809,"date":"2024-03-14T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/youth-research-students-experiment-steinmuehle-dominated-the-regional-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:37:52","slug":"youth-research-students-experiment-steinmuehle-dominated-the-regional-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/youth-research-students-experiment-steinmuehle-dominated-the-regional-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"“Youth Research”\/”Students Experiment”: Steinm\u00fchle Dominated the Regional Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steinm\u00fchle was the only high school in Marburg to take first place in the regional \u201cJugend forscht\u201d competition\u2014and it did so four times. It also won two second-place finishes, as well as special awards and a mentor award. <\/p>\n


\nUsed batteries\u2014too good to throw away? <\/strong>With this research project, Akaash Bhagwat, a 6th-grade student at the Steinm\u00fchle International High School, won first place in the physics category in the \u201cStudents Experiment\u201d subcategory, as well as a day-long field trip with a guided tour at Feig Electronics in Weilburg.<\/p>\n


\nNatural UV filters\u2014an alternative? <\/strong>Anna-Lena Griesler (8th grade), Maya Fischer, and Justus P\u00f6schl (both 7th grade) explored this question in their chemistry class and, as the best interdisciplinary project, also won the regional competition in the same category.<\/p>\n

On March 15\u201316, both teams will head to the University of Kassel for the state competition.<\/p>\n


\n“The Muffin of the Future\u20140% Egg, 100% Vegan”<\/strong> was the title of the project by Lotta Funk, Lotti Jarosch, and Evin Kaya from 6th grade, for which the trio won second place in the “Working World” category.<\/p>\n

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Plus-MINT boarding school students took first place<\/strong>
\nWater Analysis 2.0: Development of an Autonomous, Low-Cost Boat for Determining Water Quality\u2014 <\/strong>this is the <\/strong>title of <\/strong>the project by students at the plus-MINT Boarding School Steinm\u00fchle: Luis Gerloni, Fabian Sotonica, and Clara Steiner (12th grade). With their work, the young researchers took first place in the field of space and earth sciences. This project was developed in collaboration with Dr. Christoph Reudenbach from the Department of Geography at Philipps University of Marburg. <\/p>\n

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Plastic wrap made from crab shells\u2014is that possible? <\/strong>Leonard Berger, Quentin Herwig (both 11th grade), and Clara Steiner (12th grade) focused on chitosan films, since chitosan is a waste product and its production therefore does not require any farmland. With their project on this topic, the three students won first place in the \u201cWorking World\u201d category and were delighted to receive the additional special prize: a day at the magical Makerspace Gie\u00dfen. <\/p>\n

On March 20 and 21, these teams will compete in the state round of the \u201cJugend Forscht\u201d competition at Merck in Darmstadt. <\/p>\n

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“Nettles and More\u2014Natural Insulation Materials for Heat and Sound<\/strong> ” was the name of the project for which Toshiro Beato del Rosal (9th grade), Leontin Schmidt (10th grade), and Paul Fischer (9th grade) won second place in the Technology category and also received the special prize for renewable raw materials. <\/p>\n

All of Steinm\u00fchle\u2019s projects were led\u2014depending on their subject focus\u2014by Steinm\u00fchle\u2019s STEM advisory team, consisting of Dr. Sven Freibert, Jonathan Gr\u00f6b, Antje Seel, Dr. Patrick Szabo, and Dr. Jutta T\u00f6hl-Borsdorf, who supervised no fewer than five projects.<\/p>\n

The competition, which proved so successful for Steinm\u00fchle, was ultimately capped off with a special award for particularly dedicated project supervisors: Dr. Jutta T\u00f6hl-Borsdorf, who is responsible at Steinm\u00fchle for coordinating the STEM subjects\u2014mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, and technology\u2014as well as for supporting gifted students in these fields\u2014will travel to Lemgo for a three-day networking event, which will include visits to InnovationsSPIN and Lernfabrik 4.0.<\/p>\n

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Steinm\u00fchle was the only high school in Marburg to take first place in the regional \u201cJugend forscht\u201d competition\u2014and it did so four times. It also won two second-place finishes, as well as special awards and a mentor award. Used batteries\u2014too good to throw away? With this research project, Akaash Bhagwat, a 6th-grade student at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":45810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,85,105,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contests-awards","category-news","category-stem","category-talent-development"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49492,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45809\/revisions\/49492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}