Laksmi Satria Blog Post #5

May 11, 2012

This is what I love about friendship. Friendship shares everything great!

I met MY camper Chanikarn ‘Fai’ Khanutwong over a year ago during an International research competition in Russia. Spending a week there in the summer threw us together, and being trapped in a very desperate traffic jam before going home brought us even closer during that summer. Our friendship did not last only during the camp, we shared many great things soon after returning to our own home country. A few months after the Russian camp, when Thailand was suffering from drastic flooding, Fai told me about the MY Camp. She said that she had been there last summer and it was pretty awesome. She gave me the web link and I applied for the camp without reading and considering all the details.

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Millennium Youth Camp

Millennium Youth Camp offers young people between years 16-19 an overview of Finnish expertise and top-level research in the natural sciences, mathematics and technology. Students network with each other, with individuals in Finnish companies and organisations, and with top scientists.

The target of the international Millennium Youth Camp is to find young people interested in mathematics, science and technology, and help them start up a career in these fields. During the one-week-camp, Youth Campers are introduced to a number of Finnish companies and higher educational institutions. In addition to lectures, workshops and visits to Millennium Youth Camp partners, the programme includes project work supervised by top-level experts and carried out in small multi-national groups.

The 2012 Millennium Youth Camp programme includes lectures, workshops, meetings with top Finnish scientists, teamwork, visits to cooperating organisations and also some time for leisure activities.The 2012 Youth Campers will also meet the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize winner.

MAIN THEMES

Climate Change

Climate change is a pressing scientific problem and a global societal and political challenge. The Earth’s surface has warmed at an alarming rate, and as a consequence, sea level is rising, glaciers are retreating and the extent of Arctic sea ice is shrinking. The world is in dire need of effective and innovative mitigation and adaptation technologies and strategies to resolve this most important challenge of our time.

Renewable Natural Resources and Energy

Global energy demand is estimated to increase by 40 percent by 2050. At the same time, net GHG emissions should be zeroed. In the Global energy team, you will explore new energy technologies, combined with their economical analysis. Another approach is to examine the role of technology and economics in implementing new energy solutions and in reducing GHG emissions.

Water

The Water team concentrates on the increasing challenges of water availability and protection of water resources. New ideas for solutions or practices will be needed for, among other things, improving water use efficiency in communities, agriculture and industries and reducing environmental impact of water and effluent management.

ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and Digitalisation

The ICT team concentrates on internet, mobility, computers, applications, digital communities and networks. It tries to find new solutions and tools to make things more efficient, fun and easy. It also does things digitally in new ways to save natural resources and to tackle the climate change.

Applied Mathematics

Many fields of mathematics, including mathematical analysis, linear, algebra, probability theory and, in particular, numerical methods, have important and sometimes surprising applications in engineering. While we do not yet know what kind of applications will emerge in the future, it is clear that mathematics will play a crucial role in the future of technology for humanity.

APPLICATION PROCESS

The week-long 2012 Millennium Youth Camp will take place in the Helsinki Metropolitan Region and start on 9 June 2012. Application is closed for this years event.

Queries regarding the application process should be sent at jenni.vartiainen(at)helsinki.fi.

THE ORGANIZERS

Technology Academy Finland
Finland’s Science Education Centre LUMA

In cooperation with:

Aalto University School of Science and Technology
Academy of Finland
Association of Biology and Geography Teachers in Finland (BMOL)
Association of Mathematics and Science Teachers in Finland (MAOL)
Chemical Industry Federation of Finland
Federation of Finnish Technology Industries
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Finnish National Board of Education
Finnish Science Centre Heureka
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Ministry of Education and Culture
Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation
University of Helsinki
Finnish companies Kemira, Nokia, UPM-Kymmene and Vaisala

The steering group:

Maija Aksela, Finland’s Science Education Centre LUMA , University of Helsinki (chairman)
Niina Suhonen, Technology Academy Finland (TAF), Communications and Marketing Manager
Riina Vänttinen, Technology Academy Finland (TAF), Communications Officer
Riikka Öörni, Technology Academy Finland (TAF), Project Coordinator
Jenni Vartiainen, Finland’s Science Education Centre LUMA, University of Helsinki
Sakari Tolppanen, Finland’s Science Education Centre LUMA, University of Helsinki
Anneli Kunnas, UPM-Kymmene
Riitta Juvonen, Chemical Industry Federation of Finland
Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki
Terhi Loukiainen, Academy of Finland
Pekka Manninen, CSC – IT Center for Science
Tomi Rintanen, Vaisala
Juha Oikkonen, University of Helsinki
Ilkka Pollari, Kemira
Antti Rasila, Aalto University
Timo Sorsa, Nokia

For more information, please contact Project Coordinator Riikka Öörni, firstname.lastname (at) technologyacademy.fi (ä -> a).