{"id":45857,"date":"2024-03-21T14:05:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2024\/03\/21\/akaash-bhagwat-wins-state-championship-in-physics\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:37:56","slug":"akaash-bhagwat-wins-state-championship-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2024\/03\/21\/akaash-bhagwat-wins-state-championship-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Akaash Bhagwat Wins State Championship in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huge joy for the team of advisors\u2014Dr. Jutta T\u00f6hl-Borsdorf, Sven Freibert\u2014and the entire Steinm\u00fchle community: Last weekend, 12-year-old Akaash Bhagwat, a student in our International High School Program, won first place in physics at the state-level \u201cSch\u00fcler experimentieren\u201d competition held at the University of Kassel! Akaash took an in-depth look at how to combine environmental protection and cost savings when it comes to batteries. He analyzed over a hundred used batteries and discovered that they still contain a considerable amount of residual energy. This inspired him to make a large portion of that residual energy usable again using a voltage converter. Among other things, he modified a 4.5V flashlight\u2014which is normally powered by three 1.5V batteries\u2014so that it can now run on a single used battery. <\/p>\n

Several factors led the jury to award first place to our 6i student: the high social relevance of the project, the comprehensive and systematic analysis, and the visually appealing and informative presentation of the results. The experts were so impressed by Akaash\u2019s work that, in addition to the prize money, they awarded him the Special Prize for Energy Efficiency and the Environment as well as the Special Prize for Resource Efficiency. Our photos show the student at his desk and at the award ceremony alongside state competition director Eva Kretzer. The older students will compete this Thursday in the state \u201cJugend forscht\u201d competition, which will take place at Merck in Darmstadt. We\u2019re keeping our fingers crossed and will later summarize the projects of all participants in a comprehensive report. <\/p>\n

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\u201cJugend forscht\u201d and \u201cSch\u00fcler experimentieren\u201d Hesse State Competition 2024
Awards Ceremony March 16, 2024 Ing.-Schule, University of Kassel
Photo: Andreas Fischer
andreasfischerkassel@gmx.de
Tel. 0172 56 37 017
Tiessenstrasse 5
34134 Kassel<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huge joy for the team of advisors\u2014Dr. Jutta T\u00f6hl-Borsdorf, Sven Freibert\u2014and the entire Steinm\u00fchle community: Last weekend, 12-year-old Akaash Bhagwat, a student in our International High School Program, won first place in physics at the state-level \u201cSch\u00fcler experimentieren\u201d competition held at the University of Kassel! Akaash took an in-depth look at how to combine environmental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":45861,"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-45857","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\/45857","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=45857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49496,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45857\/revisions\/49496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}