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The twelfth year of the competition for the best diploma thesis in the field of IT, in which nearly 1,300 students from 13 Czech and Slovak universities took part, has its winners. They were selected by an expert jury composed of 19 academics and IT business professionals on Wednesday, 8 December. Patrik Goldschmidt from FIT, who also won the People's Choice Award, ranked second. For more information, read the article. 

Did you know that when a violoncello player travels with the instrument, they must buy the instrument its own flight ticket? That gets expensive and not even an extra fee may be enough to alleviate the fear of an instrument which is sometimes worth hundreds of thousands of Czech crowns getting damaged. Last spring, a new product arrived to the Czech market which can easily fit in a violin case. Many fans of classical music would think it too bold and perhaps doomed to failure, but the 3D printed violoncello made by a BUT graduate raised over a million Czech crowns in a public fundraiser campaign and also made an appearance at the stage of Brno Philharmonic. For more information, read the article. 

Vojtěch Havlena, a doctoral student at FIT, is one of the five successful students of BUT who were presented with the Josef Hlávka Award on Tuesday 16 November. At the Department of Intelligent Systems, he works on minimising the occurrence of errors in computer programs. The prestigious award of the Foundation of Josef, Marie and Zdeňka Hlávka (Nadání Josefa, Marie a Zdeňky Hlávkových) is presented annually to talented students and graduates or young researchers under the age of 33. The awards are regularly presented on the eve of the Velvet Revolution anniversary at Josef Hlávka Chateau in Lužany, near Přeštice.