Enthusiastic students support
Enthusiastic students support
Enthusiastic students support
The Faculty of Applied Sciences is full of experts in various fields of science and research. In addition to their extensive knowledge, these experts have indispensable experience that they are willing to provide you with. We have been mentoring high school students for some time.
What can such mentoring look like? It depends on each person. However, the main element is always a professional mentor, which a talent ambassador can help you choose. Do you want to see your mentor regularly in the faculty lab? Do you just need a bit of advice on a project that you are otherwise managing? Do you want to take your project to the next level and lack inspiration? Looking for inspiration for a project whose output has a chance to be useful? We'll figure it all out.
If you'd like to find a mentor, don't be afraid to email the Talent Ambassador (talent@fav.zcu.cz). Even if you're not sure what you need or want right now - we're also here to help guide you.
The LASAR team is composed of five high school students from different parts of our country. At the beginning, they had a very ambitious goal - to build a device that could point a powerful laser beam from the surface of the Earth at a satellite in orbit that was not communicating with the base due to some software bug. This should overload the surge protector, ultimately resulting in a reboot of the satellite's system and the ability to upload updated software that does not contain the bug.
But they set their sights even further - to fly to Houston and take part in the prestigious Conrad Challenge. They even managed to win two of the three prizes.
Also, a five-member team of high school students called AstroX will first participate in a hackathon at the Prague Planetarium and then in the AstroPi Mission Space Lab competition. They won the first prize. They then presented the project to the European Space Agency, who liked the project so much that they received all the necessary equipment.
Their project aims to estimate the height of clouds from images of the Earth taken from space. In 2023, their solution went directly to the International Space Station.
Our faculty provided the AstroX team with a laboratory where they worked on the project. In fact, this is the first team to ever win the Grab the Lab challenge.
Matyáš Boháček, a student at the Jan Kepler Gymnasium in Prague, contacted our faculty with a request for mentoring in the field of machine learning. At first it was just mentoring, but over time the cooperation developed and the result was software for Czech sign language recognition.
His work has attracted the attention of many foreign institutions - he completed a summer internship at the University of California at Berkeley and is now a student at Stanford University. However, he continues to work with our faculty - the development of the app is still ongoing.
