As of: February 27, 2024, 9:02 a.m
By: Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs
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Participating in “Jugend forscht” (from left): Arian Radakovic, Benjamin Klein, Jonas Kilbertus, Silas Ebinger and (back right) Lukas Stöger.
There is support from teacher Stefanie Braig.
© Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs
This year, students from the Welfen-Gymnasium are also taking part in the “Jugend forscht” competition in Schongau.
The young inventors present their projects.
Schongau - When the starting signal for “Jugend forscht” is given in Schongau on Wednesday (February 26th), five young researchers from the Welfen-Gymnasium Schongau will also be at the start with three sophisticated scientific projects.
Because he finds his own school bag unnecessarily heavy, Arian Radakovic (12) thought about how things could be made easier.
“I thought we’d start with the homework book.” And so the sixth-grader programmed a digital homework book himself – the latter, by the way, he taught himself.
You can also use the program to record your own grades.
Heat from banana peels: amateur researchers work for “Jugend forscht”
Jonas Kilbertus, Silas Ebinger and Lukas Stöger (all sixth graders) impressively demonstrate that sometimes something gets stuck: they are devoting themselves to the topic of cellular respiration, which was a topic in Bio the previous school year.
They started experiments in a thermos flask with sugar, yeast and water using a thermometer.
The goal: “We want to convert organic waste into sugar,” explains Jonas.
Silas and Lukas explain how heat is created.
“It can be used, for example, to heat apartments.” Heat from banana peels for private households: This is smart and saves exhaustible fossil energy, say the hobby researchers from Peiting.
Benjamin Klein (15) is no stranger: the local newspaper visited the Hohenpeißenberger at home last year.
The title of the story from 2023: “The Martian from Hohen Peißenberg”.
Since then, the 15-year-old amateur astrophysicist has done a lot in terms of research.
This year at “Jugend forscht” he is presenting various efficiency deficiencies in aerospace that he uncovered in extensive experiments.
Benjamin Klein from Hohenpeißenberg developed his own “Sky Chaser”
Benjamin doesn't exactly arrive at “Jugend forscht” with little luggage: his self-developed “Sky Chaser” is an aircraft with a length of 1.8 meters and a wingspan of 1.3 meters.
Benjamin visualizes the flow in a computer animation - everything worked out on a high-speed test track on which the machine accelerates to 150 kilometers per hour within 0.8 seconds.
Oh yes, Benjamin also built a wind tunnel for his experiments himself - in his room, of course.
The experiments take place in the garden.
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The “Sky Chaser” is one of seven research projects that the Hohenpeißenberger is working on.
Including a reconnaissance rocket for times of crisis.
“If the Sky Chaser were built by professionals, it would be more efficient than ordinary aircraft,” says Benjamin Klein, confident that he has found a way to make flying a little more sustainable.
The first challenge for the ninth-grader on Wednesday will be to transport both the “Sky Chaser” and the wind tunnel from home to the Lech sports hall for the competition without damage.
For an almost atomic physicist, this might be one of the smaller problems in world history.
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