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Russia at International Exhibition for Young Inventors 2020
In 2020, due to the international COVID-19 flight restrictions the annual International Exhibition for Young Inventors was held online for the first time. 158 inventions were submitted by students and schoolchildren from Japan, China, Indonesia, Italy, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan and Ukraine.
The international jury evaluated the submitted projects based on the following criteria: creativity, marketability, efficiency, novelty, quality of execution, and patentability. After thorough examination and evaluation, the Russian team won 3 gold, 3 silver, and 7 bronze medals, as well as a number of special prizes:
Gold medals:
1) Dmitry Brutsky (Moscow) for his robotic garden assistant;
2) Georgy Budnik & Kriperina Yurchenko (Vladivostok) for their face mask monitoring device;
3) Mikhail Borisov & Stanislav Kustov (Perm) for their smart shopping cart.
Silver medals:
1) Vladimir Kirilenko (Moscow) for his intelligent waste sorting system;
2) Alexander Yakovlev (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) for his unmanned aerial vehicle rescue system;
3) Georgy Shchelokov & Matvey Razgulov (Nizhny Novgorod) for their microbiologist smart workplace.
Bronze medals:
1) Alexey Matyukhin & Anfisa Bogdanenko (Vladivostok) for their smart garbage sorting system;
2) Daria Sheynina & Victoria Pozverg (Perm) for their vandal-proof construction and decorative panel;
3) Alexander Voronin, Daniil Monakhov & Maria Egorova (Penza) for their smart orientation device for the visually impaired;
4) Afanasy Babachanakh, Anna Gorkovets & Andrey Kharitonov (Volgograd) for their smart railway tracking system;
5) Arseniy Simakov & Nikita Simakov (Moscow) for their smart teamwork simulator;
6) Kristina Vasina, Margarita Cheremnykh & Elizaveta Ivanchikova (Novosibirsk) for their device that obtains clean water from air;
7) Egor Svistunov, Gleb Bondarchuk & Irina Glukhova (Novosibirsk) for their mobile game environment preservation virtual simulator.
Yulia Popova and Tatyana Makovleva (Novosibirsk) were awarded the Macao Special prize for their plastic shredder.
2 Singapore Special prizes were awarded to Nikita Zaitsev (Perm) for his magnetic resonance imaging for claustrophobic patients, as well as to Daria Figurovskaya (Kurganinsk) for her Braille display for the visually impaired.
Egor Yakushev & Yaroslav Solovyov (Perm) were awarded the Hong Kong Special prize for their smart pen prototype.
In 2019, the Russian team won 2 gold and 4 bronze medals, as well as several special prizes.