Students from the high school Fajtovci from Sanski Most will have the chance to show their creativity and innovation in May where they will take part in the World Olympiad of Design and Innovation, which will be held in Turkey, announced Anadolu Agency (AA).
The mere fact that they placed among the 50 teams from the entire world offering innovation in the areas of computer science and robotics is proof that in B&H, as well as in the entire region, there is a large number of those who are ready to apply scientific knowledge to take a step further.
All this was shown and proven at the exhibition of idea, innovation and creativity called ‘Inost Mladih 2014’, which was held last Sunday in Banja Luka. This 16th in a row regional exhibition is dedicated to the joint efforts of the whole world for the global conservation of the planet Earth and the 160th anniversary of the birth of Mihaljo Pupin.
Adnan Kuburić, student in the 5th grade of the elementary school Fajtovci from Sanski Most presented at the exhibition his solution to remote control traffic lights, whose work is managed and controlled by a computer.
‘’I have created all this within our school sections’’, said Adnan modestly, who is most eloquent when he has to explain the technical aspects of his work.
Enis Katlak, Adnan’s teacher and mentor, who is leading the fourth generation of students in the section of robotic programming said that he is happy that the youth are interested in IT and robotics.
Katlak said that the problem is a lack of adequate support in society for their development. This is evidenced by the fact that only thanks to his enthusiasm, the three days of this exhibition, young innovators from Sanski Most travelled every day from their city to Banja Luka and came back home.
Students showed their creativity, in addition to the field of electricity, IT and robotics at the Banja Luka exhibition, also through photographs and hairstyles, and certainly what attracted is the highly expressed awareness of the need for environmental protection.
Students at the elementary schools Svetozar Marković from Novi Sad Ilija Zubac and Rade Grba presented an interesting environmental project, a map of the biggest pollutants in Serbia and how they would solve the problem.
Ilija Zubac said that he mapped that biggest polluters in that country, warned of uncontrollable deforestation and on the fact that plant life in Serbia produces annually eight million tons of oxygen, while at the same time it emits six million tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Among the young innovators there is a large number of those who showed their innovations throughout the world.
Member of the B&H Association of Innovators and the Association of RS Innovators Borko Babalj from Trebinje said that in B&H everything is systematically being done against innovators.
‘’Now only enthusiasts are engaged in innovation. I have 32 patent protections and on the basis of my own experience I can say that because of the lack of support, there will be fewer innovators. Because if your own surroundings do not wish to understand and support you, then the will to work and create extinguishes in man’’, said Babalj.
That society supports innovators only declaratively was confirmed by the Banja Luka exhibition. The Minister of Science and Technology Jasmin Komić showed up at the exhibition, saw the works and that was it.
On the second day of the exhibition, due to debts to Elektroprenos the electricity in the Banja Luka fair was turned off, so the exhibition continued in dark and cold halls.
It should be added that the government did not pay the amount that they had promised for last year’s work to the organizers of the RS Association of Innovators and the Association of Innovators of the city of Banja Luka.
(Source: radiosarajevo.ba)
