SzSA YearBook 2018/19

SZENT-GYÖRGYI
SENIOR TEACHERS
“Those who affect children’s
imagination essentially influence
their future existence as well.”
József Eötvös
Szent-Györgyi Senior Teachers are the secondary school teachers who
constantly recognise young talents and provide them with additional,
extensive knowledge of biology and chemistry. Their students also actively
participate in the national and international natural sciences competitions.
Szent-Györgyi Senior Teachers select youths who have the opportunity
to get more acquainted with the scientific activities of the Faculty of
Medicine at the University of Szeged and the Biological Research Center of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The most important tasks of Szent-
Györgyi Senior Teachers are to introduce the selected youths to the Szeged
Scientists Academy’s program, to encourage them to inquire into areas of
research supervised by mentors of the Academy, and to emphasize all the
potentials to reach the top of their profession with the help of the Academy’s
scholarships.
With the assistance of Szent-Györgyi Senior Teachers, it is possible
to achieve an inter connection between secondary schools and higher
education, which then facilitates the development of young talents to
become creative, successful scientists.
Currently there are 16 Szent-Györgyi Senior Teachers in the program
representing a number of schools in different cities all over the country, and
their mutual goal is to develop young talents into prominent researchers of
Hungarian science.