Back from Beijing prize in hand

A group of EPFL students is returning from Beijing with the third place prize from the international iCAN micro- and nanotechnology contest. Contestants from 27 teams participated in the four-day competition. The iCAN contest, which has been taking place in China for many years, was first opened to teams from around the world two years ago. This year, Switzerland participated for the first time with encouragement from the Federal nano-tera.ch program and from EPFL Professor Jürgen Brugger, head of the Microsystems Laboratory, who organized a national selection competition last March. The condition for participating in the contest: design an original application using sensors that will "wow" a jury of experts. Mission accomplished for the team made up of Yujia Zhai, David Bonzon and Christian Adamczyk. Their project, entitled "Sensing the world through iPhone/Smartphone" won them third place in the contest and $1,000.