Luca and Michael are our only twofold national champions. Together with Tobias Kaufmann they became national champions for the most creative project in 2008. They received this award, which is sponsored by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for fabricating and studying graphene. They also became national champions for the best interdisciplinary project for their work on graphene sensoring in 2010, which also won a 2nd award at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists.
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Graphene Sensoring
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Regional Contest "Jugend forscht"
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State Contest "Jugend forscht"
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National Contest "Jugend forscht"
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Other Contests
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Graphene
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Regional Contest "Jugend forscht"
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State Contest "Jugend forscht"
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National Contest "Jugend forscht"
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Former research team members like Stefan Hück, Michael Schmitz and Luca Banszerus help Walter Stein with supervision of the young researchers | Michael Schmitz and Luca Banszerus tell about becoming national champions and all the exciting events that followed this great success |
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Our successful teams are back at St. Michael-Gymnasium after the national contest |
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Michael Schmitz and Luca Banszerus present their project about graphene sensors at the regional contest "Jugend forscht" | Our graphene researchers at the state contest (source: Bayer AG) | Luca and Michael become state champions in physics |
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Luca and Michael with their supervisor Walter Stein at the national contest "Jugend forscht" | Luca and Michael with their graphene sensors at the national contest "Jugend forscht" (source: Stiftung Jugend forscht e.V.) | Federal Minister of Education Prof. Annette Schavan explains why the project of Luca Banszerus and Michael Schmitz makes them national champions |
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National champions Luca and Michael share their joy with the Federal Minister of Education | Michael Schmitz and Luca Banszerus at their exhibit at the "European Union Contest for Young Scientists" in Lisbon (source: EUCYS) | Our "Jugend forscht" national champions Luca Banszerus and Michael Schmitz are also successful in Lisbon. They win the 2nd place which is endowed with € 5000. |
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Our national award recipients Florian Kotzur (2005) and Tobias Kaufmann and Michael Schmitz (2008) visit the regional contest | Our students Michael Schmitz and Tobias Kaufmann speak about becoming national champions in 2008 |
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Our state champions Tobias Kaufmann, Heiko Burau, Luca Banszerus and Michael Schmitz with their supervisor Walter Stein at the state competition "Jugend forscht" | State champions NRW (source: Bayer) | Heiko Burau, Walter Stein, Michael Schmitz, Luca Banszerus and Tobias Kaufmann at the national competition |
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The team of St. Michael-Gymnasium in front of the Urania venue in Berlin | Tobias Kaufmann and Michael Schmitz at their graphene exhibit | After three days the award recipients of the festival had been chosen |
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Michael Schmitz, Luca Banszerus and Tobias Kaufmann present their project at the regional contest | The graphene researchers at their exhibit at the regional contest "Jugend forscht" | Michael, Luca and Tobias present their research at the state contest "Jugend forscht" (source: Bayer) |
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Luca, Tobias and Michael win the state contest in physics | Our state champions with their certificates after the awards ceremony | Michael, Tobias and Luca at their exhibit at the national contest |
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Our graphene researchers at their experimental setup | Luca, Tobias and Michael (source: Jugend forscht) | Our national champions Tobias, Luca and Michael receive their certificates from Federal Minister of Education and Research Annette Schavan |
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Our graphene researchers become national champions by winning the prize for the most creative project, which is sponsored by the German Chancellor and awarded by the Federal Minister of Education Annette Schavan | Tobias, Michael and Walter meet Nobel Laureate in Physics Prof. Dr. Peter Grünberg | Tobias and Michael explain their project to Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. Peter Grünberg and BMBF State Secretary Thomas Rachel |
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Michael speaking to Nobel Laureate Peter Grünberg | Tobias and Michael present their "Jugend forscht"-project in front of Nobel Laureate Peter Grünberg and State Secretary Thomas Rachel | Radio Euskirchen selects our graphene researchers as people of the year 2008 |
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Michael Schmitz and Tobias Kaufmann are waiting for German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel at their exhibit | Their exhibit is surrounded by the press even before the German Chancellor arrives | German Chancellor Dr. Anglea Merkel gives Tobias and Michael a 1700 € check |
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Tobias and Michael give a picture of St. Michael-Gymnasium to the German Chancellor | Tobias summarizes the research project | Michael explains how to contact graphene |
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Walter Stein, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Tobias Kaufmann and Michael Schmitz speak to the press |
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Junge, kreative Döner-Fans
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Kurstadt-Botschafter für Deutschland
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Miniforscher erobern Europa
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Bundeskanzlerin empfing Bad Münstereifeler Gymnasiasten
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Erfolgreichste Schule im Land
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Sieg in Physik und Chemie
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Die Miniforschergruppen räumten ordentlich ab
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Stolze "Energie-Genies"
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Du willst es wissen
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Missverständnis mit Folgen
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Mini-Forscher "erobern" Europa
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"Die wird einiges verstehen"
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Von der Grafikkarte bis zum Lackierroboter
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"Dünner geht's nimmer": Bundessieg für Michelaner!
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Preisgekrönte Miniforscher
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"Schule mit richtiger Forschungskultur"
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Kilian rückt Hochwasser mit Windeln zu Leibe
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