At SYGA 2026, secondary schools presented other great innovations in warehouse automation, machine modernization and ecological waste solutions.
These are the projects of this year's Siemens Young Generation Award (SYGA 2026) final, in which 27 students from 20 schools participated this year.
10 teams advanced to the finals and last week we met the awardees at the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology of the STU in Trnava:
- SYGA 2026 Main Prize: Tomáš Druga (Joseph Murgaš Secondary School, Banská Bystrica) – model of an automated warehouse controlled by a PLC system
- Siemens Digital Industries Prize: Šimon Šátek and Adam Vrbičan (Mechanical Engineering Secondary School, Bratislava) – modernization of a milling machine and its automatic control
- MTF STU Prize: Mykhailo Kharybin (Joint School of St. John Bosco, Nová Dubnica) – improvement of the Pick & Place system in warehouses
- ATP Journal Prize: Martin Haburaj (Electrical Engineering Secondary School, Košice) – ecological hole puncher made from paper honeycomb waste
- ATP spol. s r. Prize o.: Peter Salbot and Jaroslav Šubjak (High School of Electrical Engineering, Bratislava) – prototype of an automated warehouse system
SYGA has been showing for 23 years that when students work with practical technologies, ideas are created that have real applications.
