Abdusalam Abubakar was the winner of the 43rd Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2007 at the age of seventeen.
11 Facts About Abdusalam Abubakar
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Abdusalam Abubakar went on to be named EU Young Scientist of the Year in September 2007.
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Abdusalam Abubakar moved to Ireland in May 2005, joining Synge Street CBS in central Dublin.
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Abdusalam Abubakar first entered the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition alongside two fellow students who invited him along and taught him to research and solve properly.
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Abdusalam Abubakar then re-entered the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition for the 2007 event as a third-year student at Synge Street CBS.
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Abdusalam Abubakar's project was based on the topic of cryptography.
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Abdusalam Abubakar won the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition at the RDS, Dublin, on 12 January 2007.
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Abdusalam Abubakar defeated runner-up Beara Community School in County Cork's Ciara Murphy and her study on hearing loss in teenagers.
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Abdusalam Abubakar admitted afterwards that he had never used a computer before coming to Ireland twenty months earlier.
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Abdusalam Abubakar appeared on Dustin's Daily News on 19 January 2007.
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Abdusalam Abubakar went on to represent Ireland at the 19th European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Valencia, Spain, in September 2007, claiming first prize in the field of mathematics for Ireland.