'Invent a Chip 2018' school competitionChip ideas for digitization in everyday life
Over 2,000 schoolchildren across Germany submitted their microchip ideas to the 'Invent a Chip 2018' competition. The four most original of these have now been chosen by the VDE and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Gesa Dünnweber won first place, with prize money of 3,000 euros, for her project "Random Generation". She creates random numbers directly on a self-designed microchip. They are used, for example, for secure encryption with passwords. She demonstrates the generated numbers on the computer as colored squares. Unwanted regularities are thus easily recognizable. "I also created a "lottery" on the microchip, in which several numbers are typed and the number of correctly typed numbers is displayed by my generator after the "lottery draw"," says the prizewinner, explaining her model.