Seventeen-year-old Ukrainian student Igor Klymenko won an award for developing a drone that detects landmines. It will receive $ 100,000 (about $ 100,000), Chegg.org reports. This is an organization that helps students around the world make their innovations a success.
The Kiev student moved to the Ukrainian countryside at the beginning of the war to finish high school. Klymenko perfected his own invention, which he had worked on for eight years. In the meantime, he has given colleagues digital tutoring in mathematics and physics.
The device is capable of detecting mines from the air within 2 centimeters. Now he’s working on an improved drone that can mark a location with paint, for example. He is also trying to determine the type of mine with the help of artificial intelligence, so that the explosives can be safely defused.
Since graduating from college, Klymenko has been helping Ukrainian students to get scholarships to good universities abroad. He recently started studying computer science at the University of Alberta in Canada and is also studying part-time online in Kiev.
Klymenko has already participated in competitions with his so-called quadcopter mine detector. He has also won awards with the drone, patented in his homeland. Previously he had developed prototypes with the financial help of a Finnish civil society organization.
More than seven thousand high school students aged 16 and over from 150 countries were eligible for the so-called Global Student Prize 2022.
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