students Isabel Blank-Aschauer and Lan Wang of the Max-Rill-high school grappled with the issue of “Fake News”.

Reichersbeuern – social networks Are a democracy killer? This question, two students of the Max-Rill-high school. Because they found a very unusual approach in order to reach an answer, they got one of the highest prizes in a nationwide competition.

“We wanted to make a competition together,” says Lan Wang (17), who attended the eleventh class. So she got together with her girlfriend Isabel Blank-Aschauer (17) on the search. The challenge: Both girls have different Strengths. While Lan nature is scientifically gifted, and has already put in several math competitions, Isabel a Talent for social Sciences. The gonna be a senior, writes high-school graduate is considered to be above-average, gifted, skipped a grade and has already won several awards in various fields of won. In addition, she was selected for the so-called Uni-day.

“We wanted to give it a shot.”

Find the girls in the European competition. You decided for the theme “Social Media is A democracy killer” and put all your emphasis on “Fake News”, so the wrong messages. Math expert, Lan Wang found a Parallel between “EU” and the word “You”. “You have the letter U together. Since I was able to play mathematically with it,“ says the young Chinese girl who lives in Germany for two years. Thinking about a mathematical task, while Isabel Blank-Aschauer converted the result back to Text.

their conclusion: The EU and “You” are linked. Crucial it is. Everyone needs to work for be careful with messages, and consider how credible messages from the global network are worthy of. “We learn in school is to check sources in the Internet, it is always to your integrity,” says Isabel. The messages from the network, one could expose a lot of “Fake News”. “But you can never be 100 percent sure.”

A model for the method to connect the two at first glance, completely different Sciences, they would have found in Leonardo da Vinci, says Lan Wang. “As I studied his work more closely, I found that so cool how he has art and mathematics. Something I wanted to do.“

Isabel and Lan hung up properly in your project, in spite of the usual school tasks, which they had to cope with. As the deadline approached, it was Isabel partially exempt from teaching.

“We have to be part of more competitions, but the time that would be gone,” says high school graduate Isabel. Just Writing for the European competition have taken a lot of time, as well as Creating the graphics.

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says The most challenging but it was to capture the competition, Isabel. “It wasn’t initially figure out how to log on to it, actually,” she says, laughing. Through her participation in other competitions you’ve known a girl who had participated in the past year. This gave her crucial tips.

right in the short term, the two girls submitted their results. “We have not even thought of the price,” says Isabel. “We wanted to give it a shot.” And it had been fun, adds Lan. All the greater was the joy when they learned that they had initially brought to a land price and, finally, even at the Federal level, had won. You were one of the main prizes. For Isabel and Lan this means that The result of their work is published online, and you get a Holiday gift. Where exactly it goes, don’t know you yet.

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