National competition “Young talents” has been leaded since 1999. It encourages the youths who have potential and interests in the field of science, scientific researches and innovations. Competition is part of Ministry of Education Youth and Science initiatives for support of development of young scientific talents in Bulgaria. National coordinator for conducting of this competition is department “Science” of Ministry of Education Youth and Science.
This year the ceremony took place in Center for training students for olympics on 19 May. As partner organization to this competition, ICT Cluster established and bestowed a prize and charter to winning project: “Modern steward” of Lyubomir Qnchev and Hristo Stoianov team from Privet high school “Erih Kestner” in Sofia.

Participants, classified on the first three positions, will take part in the European competition for young scientist in Bratislava, Slovakia during September 2012:

• First position and amount of 1000 leva, provided by the ministry, won project “Modern steward” of Lyubomir Qnchev and Hristo Stoianov team from Privet high school “Erih Kestner” in Sofia.
• Second position and amount of 900 leva, provided by the ministry, won project “Relate2Spot” with authors Dimitur Vuldjev and Ivan Stefanov.
• Third position and amount of 800 leva, provided by the ministry, won Prolet Lazarova with her project “Over a new geometric figure”.

Teams, classified on forth and fifth positions in this competition, will present their projects on European youth scientific exposition “EXPO SCIENCE EUROPE” 2012 in Tula, Russia on July 2012.

The other partner organizations – British Council Bulgaria, Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange “Fulbright”,  University of chemical technology and metallurgy, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgarian associations of software companies (BASSCOM), Telerik, SAP LABS Bulgaria etc. – also gave awards to participants in the competition.