Innovators go through Shopping MallDova towards Guinness Records

The winners of the Best Innovator contest, which was organized by the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, the Agency for Innovation and Technology Transfer, the Ministry of Education, and the State Agency on Intellectual Property of Moldova for the fourth time, will be awarded at Shopping MallDova Center on May 21, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting Diana Adam, coordinator at the company’s Marketing Department. The contest was held to mark 20 years of the declaration of Moldova’s independence. It involved 50 students of the University of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and 50 students of the Academy’s High School. They aimed to promote Moldova’s image aboard by collectively making the largest territorial-administrative map of Moldova from old collection coins. The map will be about 64 square meters and will be framed in a fresco that will represent a big horseshoe consisting of 3,200 small horseshoes. Both the horseshoes and the 190,000 coins were provided by Petru Costin. The map and the horseshoes will be proposed for inclusion in the Guinness Book ofWorld Records. The award ceremony will take place at the ground floor of the mall starting at 10:30. It will be attended by Prime Minister Vlad Filat, Minister of Education Mihai Shleahtitski, Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar, Minister of Youth and Sport Ion Cebanu, Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov, Minister of the Environment Gheorghe Salaru, and other guests. The winners of the contest will be selected by a competent jury headed by Maria Duca, rector of the University of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. They will receive money awards, including a prize of 3,000 lei for the first position, two prizes of 2,000 lei each for the second position, and three prizes of 1,000 lei each for the third position. There will be also given eight special prizes of 500 lei each and diplomas. Seventy-four students from 28 education institutions situated in 18 settlements of Moldova competed in the contest. They presented about 80 works, showing their ingeniousness, creativity and inventive abilities in information technology, mechanics, agriculture, ecology, energy, radioelectronics, geography, chemistry, and mathematics.