While the 2204-C High School Students Polar Research Projects Competition continues at full speed, it continues to fascinate the finalists with new innovations every year. Approximately 200 teachers and students who took part in 60 projects, which were the finalists of this year's competition, were entitled to make oral presentations at the 6th National Polar Sciences Workshop organized by the TÜBİTAK MAM Polar Research Institute and hosted by Karadeniz Technical University, and successfully completed their work on December 1, Antarctic Day.

Within the scope of the 2204-C Polar Research Projects Competition for High School Students organized by TUBITAK every year, 3 young high school students who took part in the project selected as the first of the first out of 611 project applications will realize their projects in the 7th National Antarctic Science Expedition. Selin Sağdıç was the advisor and Azra Ayşe Bıçakçı, Hilal Başak Demirel and Zeynep İpek Yanmaz were the students in the project named "Domestic and National Bioplastic Material Production to Prevent Microplastic Pollution in Polar Oceans". This project, which is in the main field of Physical Sciences, is also important for both polar research and climate change studies, as well as complying with the United Nations Ocean Decade goals for 2021-2030.