Author: Geng Ting Zhang Yue
At the 5th Top Scientists Conference and Science T Conference held on October 30, 100 Chinese youth held a wonderful dialogue on scientific research, science and technology with Nobel Prize big names and academicians.
Among this group of teenagers, 17 live students and 42 online students share the same label - "talented students".
In the past 10 years, China Association for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education have jointly launched a "Talent Training Plan for the Backdrop of Scientific and Technological Innovation for Middle School Students", namely the "Talent Plan". The program aims to select middle school students with excellent character and academic performance and study to enter universities, and participate in scientific research, academic seminars and scientific research practice under the guidance of scientists in basic natural science disciplines such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and computers.
From 2018 to 2022, the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology selected 77 talented students to participate in the World Top Scientists Forum . Through communication with scientists, the "science seeds" can thrive.
Scientific Teenager,
Coordinate scientific research and study
Zou Yiming, who graduated from Shanghai Gaojing No. 1 Middle School, has participated in the World Top Scientist Forum for 2 consecutive years. On the stage of the 3rd Science T Conference, Zou Yiming discussed a question with the guests about the interdisciplinary subjects of Nobel Prize , which made him very memorable. "We can use our enjoyment at will to write the direction and research content we are interested in."
As a student of the 2020 Talent Program, Zou Yiming is currently admitted to the university. During his three years in high school, he completed 5 research projects in chemistry. When asked how to balance research and in-class learning, Zou Yiming smiled and said, "I don't think there will be no phenomenon of not being able to allocate energy and time. For me personally, such research is very different from traditional in-class examination-oriented education. This is a process of independent learning. I enjoy this learning method very much. This is a kind of decompression after learning."
"The question I want to ask top scientists the most is how to overcome difficulties when encountering problems in scientific research, how to use some innovative thinking to overcome difficulties when encountering problems in scientific research.
"The question I want to ask most is how to overcome difficulties with some innovative thinking when encountering problems in scientific research." . "Zhang Bohan from Xuhui Middle School said, "I deeply realized in my research on the subject that scientific research is a very difficult process. I often encounter some ups and downs during experimental design, which sometimes leads to the exhaustion of thinking."
Zhang Bohan's ongoing project is how to display the position and shape of the constellations in the starry sky in different seasons in AR glasses , so as to help astronomy enthusiasts and teenagers better stargazing. Through the "Talent Program", he received guidance from a professor from Zhuka, the Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University. "The teacher gave me great help, allowing me to overcome the difficulties I encountered when doing the project." Zhang Bohan said, "When I was doing starry sky detection, when the weather was bad, I would encounter unclear detection, which made the model unable to accurately tell the user of the glasses' position." Professor Zhuka told him that more starry sky codes could be input into the database to make the information more accurate.
Doing research on projects and communicating with tutors, Zhang Bohan needs to coordinate the relationship between learning and scientific research. "I think the two are complementary." He said, "The process of scientific research can cultivate our creative thinking, divergent thinking and logical thinking. These three are of great help to our learning; developing good learning habits can help us go further in scientific research."
Science girl,
Search for scientific research inspiration from details
When encountering an interesting math problem, Shanghai Middle School Li Yifan will be immersed in it, ranging from one or two hours to one or two weeks, and when inspiration comes, he will also outline numbers and figures in the air. "I like mathematics. In the process of proving formulas or theorems, I can feel a sense of simplicity and beauty." In the mathematics class with a ratio of up to 10 to 1 for men, Li Yifan is one of the few girls. This time, she got the opportunity to attend the Science T Conference.
Mathematical problems that many people are insurmountable are opportunities for Li Yifan to communicate with his math friends. “In math classes and research groups, we often get together and write down the problem-solving process on the blackboard."She said, "I like this atmosphere. "Even though this group of students in the mathematics class did not play "Glory of Kings" in their spare time, they used their own mathematical models to play games.
Under the guidance of Professor Xiong Bin from East China Normal University, this mathematical girl was conducting theoretical research on number theory under the guidance of Professor Xiong Bin from at East China Normal University. "The Talent Plan has given us great help. "Li Yifan said that under the guidance of his tutor, he was able to participate in many topics and wrote many small papers. "The tutor led us to some different paths, and also gave me a deeper understanding of mathematics. "
A trip and a meticulous observation of life led to the inspiration for the talent plan of Huang Xinyi, a student of , Huazhong Normal University Second Affiliated High School. During that trip many years ago, she bought a liquid band sticker, but this liquid band sticker is prone to irritating odors, so the "seed" of improving the "seeds" of the liquid band sticker planted the "root" in her heart. Later, in a food-related experiment, she found that the combination of sodium alginate and calcium chloride can be quickly cross-linked to form a film , I couldn't help but think of the idea of improving liquid band patches many years ago, and started research.
But Huang Xinyi was in trouble in the selection of antibacterial agents. After trying many plant extracts, the tutor of the Talent Project and the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhao Guoping guided her to look at the treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine, and finally found the dry pomegranate peel extract as an antibacterial agent, solving the antibacterial problem.
"Thank you to the Talent Project for giving me the opportunity to face-to-face with the Nobel Prize winners and learn their scientific views and scientific attitudes. "Huang Xinyi said, "I hope that the younger students will be brave enough to participate in the talent program and have confidence in their own topics. "
Fudan Affiliated High School, who just participated in the Science T Conference, Wang Zifei said that what Professor Michael Levitt said, "No matter what scientific research field or what scientific stage, scientific researchers must be brave to ask questions and question them." She was deeply impressed by her, "This will provide a driving force for the scientific research work I have carried out."
Wang Zifei chose a talent plan in the talent plan. A seemingly inconspicuous scientific research direction - treating dry eyes. She found that the elderly grandmother and herself who have been taking online classes for a long time will have dry eyes, and ordinary eye drops are difficult to relieve symptoms for a long time. She thought of using water-soluble DNA to carry fat-soluble drugs, which can prevent dry eyes for a long time through sustained release, and is conducting mouse experiments.
"We want to make a group of students who are interested in science and have special ideas to stand out. Let them enter the laboratories of scientific research institutes earlier, get in touch with real scientific research, and become the new backbone of scientific research and a new tier of scientific research. "Chinese Academy of Sciences Chu Junhao said, "In youth education, on the one hand, there should be a resource-focused way like the Talent Plan to cultivate scientific research talents from an early stage; on the other hand, we should also pay more attention to the top talents emerging in general education. ”
