Istanbul students design glacier black box for Antarctic research
Two students in matching ARGEM shirts hold a small project box outdoors.
Three high school students in Istanbul developed a black box device for glaciers to track structural changes, earning a spot to test their invention at Türkiye’s Antarctic research base.
Tenth and 11th-grade students Yusuf Mert Dalgıç, Abdullah Nazım Karanfil and Emrullah Gürpınar from Üsküdar Research Development Education and Application Center (ARGEM) High School won the annual Polar Research Projects Competition. The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) organizes the event to give the high school students a chance to conduct research in the Arctic or in Antarctica.
The group is one of four winning teams this year. The students will test their project at the Turkish base in Antarctica if they pass the final interview stage expected in October. The team spent nearly two and a half years working on the device, designed to be placed inside glaciers to collect regional data.
