Pupils 'scientific research activities in Latvia actively going on for several decades, and for nearly ten years the Laboratory of hydrogen energy materials are recruiting and training secondary school students from various schools of Riga (and Sigulda too) in scientific research work. This year for the Latvian Scientific Conferences were recommended 397 works, of which for participation in competiton at 24 sections were selected 316 best. For Physics section was selected 22 works, of which in 23 April, the jury chose the best. Two of them were developed in Hydrogen Energy Materials Laboratory under the guidance of doctoral students Pēteris Lesničenoks and Ainārs Knoks and won the 1st and 2nd places accordingly:
Riga French Lyceum 12th class schoolgirls Anna Januškeviča and Madara Zvīne "Research of carbon nanostructure electrode and membrane materials for applications in supercapacitor" (advisor Pēteris Lesničenoks).
Riga French Lyceum 12th class schoolgirls Klaudija Gauja and Elizabete Laiviņa " Acquisition of thin-layer photo- active titanium dioxide and research of its physical and photo- electrochemical properties" (advisors Ainārs Knoks and Mārtiņš Zubkins).
