1st place for the best exhibition in Gaudeamus 2012 Trade Show

Gaudeamus Trade Show is an important event focused on university and lifelong studies held every year in Brno. The best exhibits are announced in a ceremony during the festival at VUT in Brno. The organizing team of ČVUT Praha confirmed last year.s best result followed by Palacky University in Olomouc and Masaryk University in Brno on the 2nd and 3rd places. The victory was all the more valuable since the competition was based on votes of high school students.

More than 30,000 visitors came to see 201 schools and over 3800 fields of study, both Czech and international, and 54 universities from abroad.

The biggest sensation caused the winning project of Institute of Intermedia, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, the fruit-vegetable piano and Arduino, an open source platform based on one-chip computer ATMega and graphic development environment. With this special computer, everyone can create his own small musical instrument.