Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the "26th Neisse-Elektro" student competition organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science' took place online this year.
This year, 32 students took part in the event online. This is not a matter of course in times of exit restrictions and lockdown. The winners are students from Liberec and Löbau.
We are now used to cancellations or postponements. Almost everyone is currently affected by lectures, events, conferences and training courses. But can an Olympiad be postponed at will during the school year? As organizer Egmont Schreiter explains: "Postponing it to the autumn was out of the question, as there would be a new year in schools and lessons would not be ready yet. And moving it to the examination period before the summer vacations? That would put an increased burden on the graduating classes and teachers." From today's perspective, the working group made the right decision: "We have to go online as quickly as possible". The teachers were involved, the sponsors VDE-Dresden and ATN Hölzel from Oppach were contacted and the concept was born: the students receive the tasks as a download and send the solutions back by email after 90 minutes.
1. Matěj Vlček, SPŠSE a VOŠ Liberec
2. Jiří Kult, SPŠSE a VOŠ Liberec
3. Karl Schneider, GSG-Löbau
4. Radek Haba, SPŠSE a VOŠ Liberec & Richard Schlösinger, VOŠ a SPŠ Děčín
6. Vojtěch Matyáš, SPŠSE a VOŠ Liberec
7. Michal Svárovský, SPŠSE a VOŠ Liberec
8. Vojtěch Petrásek, SPŠSE a VOŠ Liberec
9. Fritsche Tobias, BSZ Bautzen
10. Manuel Isensee, BSZ-Zittau
Sebastian Gemkow, Saxony's Minister of State for Science, Culture and Tourism and patron of the Olympics, writes in his welcoming address:
"What makes this Zittau Olympiad so special? There are its three most important ingredients.
- Firstly: Neiße-Elektro is Europe in action,
- Secondly, electrical engineering is permanently topical and concerns us all,
- Thirdly, the commitment of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences to this Olympiad is tireless and exemplary."
You can find the detailed greeting here.
The supporting program of the Olympiad has been omitted. The aim was to provide the opportunity to carry out interesting and entertaining experiments in the field of electrical engineering. We congratulate the winners. We wish all participants every success in this special school year and would be delighted to see one or two of them again at our university.
The Neisse-Elektro Olympiade is a competition for schoolchildren that has been taking place since 1996. The event takes place regularly under the patronage of the Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism - this year represented by Minister of State Sebastian Gemkow. Twenty students from each of the three countries Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany will compete against each other in an invigilated (written) examination on the topic of electrical engineering. Winning prizes are made possible with the help of sponsors. Click here for more information.
