Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The competition for the Sieglinde Vollmer Award 2021 successfully took place despite the coronavirus pandemic. With this accolade, the Biberach Sieglinde Vollmer Foundation promotes initiatives and young researchers who are active in the areas of mathematics, computer science, science and technology outside of regular school lessons. The “Award for young people” individual prize was presented twice and the “Award for initiatives” was presented once. The recipients were Carina Braig from Biberach and Niklas Hornung from Ochsenhausen, as well as the robotics club at Carl Laemmle Gymnasium school in Laupheim. In so doing, the Sieglinde Vollmer Foundation recognised exceptional engagement in mathematics, computer science, science and technology for the second time since 2019.
“Our goal is to support engagement with mathematics, computer science, science and technology in the region with the award and to foster young people’s enthusiasm on this subject,” says Sieglinde Vollmer, the foundation’s namesake and daughter of Heinrich Vollmer, who founded the Biberach company in 1909: “When awarding the prize, what is crucial for us is the complete package of healthy ambition, long-term engagement and a thirst for knowledge, and not individual projects – the focus is on the young people themselves.”
The current coronavirus pandemic did nothing to detract from the initiatives and wealth of ideas from the young people. The Sieglinde Vollmer Foundation received a large number of proposals for the award winners. The workshop, in which the finalists showcased themselves and their engagement, took place live at Vollmer with appropriate hygiene measures in place – because when awarding the Sieglinde Vollmer Awards, the focus is young people themselves, not just the individual project. The consistently high standard of prize-worthy entries made the decision difficult for the jury. In the end, three Sieglinde Vollmer Awards were presented in 2021.
The ceremony for the Sieglinde awards 2021 took place as a virtual evening event. The award winners, together with their families, joined via a video link. Vollmer CEO Dr Stefan Brand hosted the evening, and Vollmer staff also congratulated the winners in an entertaining video message.
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