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Eighth Polish Crystal Growing Competition for Schools 2021

Ewa Talik
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A selection of winning and distinguished entries to the Eighth Polish Crystal Growing Competition for Schools 2021. Photo credit: Dr Marcin Łaciak, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Silesia.

The competition was organized at the Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Poland, at the invitation of the IUCr in 2014 and IUCr Commission on Crystal Growth member Dr Hanna Dabkowska. For the 2021 competition, 620 people were registered, and 289 sent 456 crystals from 72 towns. The jury selected 3 winners and more than 20 works were distinguished. The awards ceremony took place on 17 June 2021 during the seminar "Crystals: order, beauty and usefulness" at the Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Chorzów.

[poster]The poster advertising the scientific seminar and award ceremony.

The Director of the Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Professor Sebastian Pawlus, and the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Professor Danuta Stróż, opened the Seminar connected with the award ceremony. The patronage of the competition included the Polish Society for Crystal Growth and the Committee of Crystallography, Academy of Sciences (detailed in the poster above). The organizing committee included Professor Ewa Talik, Dr Magdalena Szubka, Dr Monika Oboz, Dr Adam Guzik, Dr Aneta Szczygielska-Łaciak and Dr Marcin Łaciak.


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[number3]The three winners of the competition. Photo credit: Dr Marcin Łaciak, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Silesia.

 

Students awarded distinctions
 Town
 Compound
Magdalena Ruszkowska
 Poznań
 KCr(SO4)2·x12H2O
Kinga Abrachamczyk
 Rybnik
 KAl(SO4)2·x12H2O; CuSO4·x5H2O
Gabriela Drzewiec
 Siedlce
 K3[Fe(CN)6]
Patrycja Mleczek
 Klecza Dolna
 (NH4)2Fe(SO4)2
Dominik Janczyk
 Czerwionka-Leszczyny
 KAl(SO4)2·x12H2O
Karolina Rozpędek
 Katowice
 KCr(SO4)2·x12H2O; CuSO4·x5H2O
Maksymilian Kozik
 Gliwice
 KAl(SO4)2·x12H2O
Beata Niedbała
 Nowa Sarzyna
 KAl(SO4)2·x12H2O
Artur Rolnik
 Ruda Śląska
 C12H22O11
Weronika Lorenowicz
 Rzeszów
 (CH3COO)2Cu·xH2O
Julia Białek
 Chorzów
 K(Cr,Al)(SO4)2·x12H2O; CuSO4·x5H2O
Wiktoria Golian
 Lublin
 KCr(SO4)2·x12H2O
Anastasiia Afonina
 Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski
 KCr(SO4)2·x12H2O
Barbara Stefaniuk
 Siedlce
 Mg(SO)4·xH2O
Bianka Wyrobek
 Paniówki
 KAl(SO4)2·x12H2O
Natalia Bartkowiak
 Poznań
 C6H8O7
Alicja Mizera
 Pniewy
 CuSO4·x5H2O
Wiktoria Marosik
 Kostrzyn nad Odrą
 CuSO4·x5H2O
Aleksandra Babiuch
 Przeginia
 CuSO4·x5H2O
Szymon Flis
 Tychy
 KAl(SO4)2·x12H2O
Marcel Tomaszek
 Stargard
 CuSO4·x5H2O
Jan Chomiuk
 Rybnik
 CuSO4·x5H2O
Franciszek Kubuj
 Otwock
 CuSO4·x5H2O
Dominika Kucharska
 Grójec
 CuSO4·x5H2O

 

For full details, please see here.

  

[awards]The prizes awarded in 2021.


Three lectures devoted to the subject of crystals were delivered during the seminar:

“Crystallography” – Professor Maria Gdaniec (Department of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

“Luminescent crystals” – Dr hab. Dobrosława Kasprowicz (Poznan Faculty of Technical Physics Institute of Materials Research and Quantum Engineering Division of Optical Spectroscopy, University of Technology, Poznań, Poland)

“Looking inside the materials” – Dr Maciej Zubko (Faculty of Exact and Technical Sciences Institute of Materials Science, University of Silesia, Chorzów, Poland).

The organizing committee expresses its thanks to Professor Juan Manuel García-Ruiz from the University of Granada, Spain, for sharing the video “The Mystery of the Giant Crystals” presented at the seminar.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, winners participated in a scientific visit to CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, and the Solaris Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Kraków, Poland. For a full list of winners since 2014, please see here.

1 October 2021

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