The group of Norwegian lower- and upper secondary school pupils participated at the event in Murmansk on November 24th to 26th.
Ida Marie Bosch (16) and Hanne Mathisen (15) from Tromsdalen Upper Secondary School presented their project “How are the grades and social environment in an age-separated school compared to an age-mixed school?” The young female researchers both received an official acknowledgement for their efforts with the project from the organisers of the competition, as reported by TV21.
Troms County awarded the two best Russian projects with participation at the youth forum at Arctic Frontiers to be arranged in Tromsø by the end of January next year.
The winners of the Troms County awards were Larissa Ambartsumyan from school 15, Apatiti, with the project titled “The Lexical gap as an expressive means of the National - Cultural peculiarity of the Russian and English language”, and Valeria Postolakii from school 5, Murmansk, with the project titled “Comparative research of Chitin and Chitosan prepared from Crustaceans of the Barents Sea”.
The participation in the competition and forum “Step into the future” is part of the project “young researchers in the Barents region” between the Municipality of Tromsø and Murmansk County, a project lead by Kristoffer Svendsen at Tromsø kommune. The aim of the project is to create collaboration between pupils, teachers, students and teacher educators in Troms and Murmansk County through the concept of “young researchers”.
The project is to facilitate research on each other, with each other and in community with each other. The main goal is a Barents Finale with participants from Norway, Russia, Finland and Sweden.
