Physics lab technician apprentices Sofie Gnannt and Nick Cáceres presented their project on plastic separation with terahertz radiation at the finals of the 57th ’Schweizer Jugend forscht’ competition. Image: Schweizer Jugend forscht
Physics lab technician apprentices Sofie Gnannt and Nick Cáceres presented their project on plastic separation with terahertz radiation at the finals of the 57th 'Schweizer Jugend forscht' competition. Image: Schweizer Jugend forscht An outstanding performance in the national "Schweizer Jugend forscht" competition opens up new doors. That is exactly what Sofie Gnannt and Nick Cáceres, physics lab technician apprentices at Empa's Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Lab, have achieved. With their project "Plastic Separation with Terahertz Radiation", which was rated "outstanding", they will represent Switzerland in October at MILSET, the international young researchers' conference in Mexico. From Uster to St. Gallen - and then to Mexico! A journey that physics lab technician apprentices Sofie Gnannt and Nick Cáceres from the fourth year of their apprenticeship embarked on in November 2022 when they won both the Jury Prize and the Participant Prize for their project "Plastic Separation with Terahertz Radiation" at the Züri-Oberland apprenticeship competition - an exhibition with 34 projects and a four-digit number of visitors. After their success in Uster, the two went on to St. Gallen in April 2023 for the finals of the 57th National Competition of "Schweizer Jugend forscht" (SJF), where Sofie and Nick were given the opportunity to compete against youths - mainly grammar school students - from all over Switzerland. After the SJF preliminaries in January 2023 in Bern, the two were supported by an expert from SJF and were able to deepen their research.
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