We had visitors in our lab on 15th May 2026 from the Kálmán Kittenberger Elementary and Arts School in Nagymaros – Nagymarosi Kittenberger Kálmán Általános és Művészeti Iskola. The students and their teachers are interested in our space crystallization project, because they have contributed to it. Éva Tóth and Zselyke Bernhardt (5th grade, last year) played the Hymn of Hungary on two violins. Their music teacher, Lius Luque Alvarez composed a piece for piano and violin inspired by our crystallization experiment. It is performed by Ágnes Szelcsányi (piano) and Lius Luque Alvarez (violin). Both recordings were copied to the memory card of the Kirara box, and travelled to the International Space Station together with our chemical samples, where we got a nice single crystal of a HOF compound. It shows how science inspires art – and how art may contribute to the work of researchers.
Photos: from left to right:
Varjú Laura (school secretary), Tóth Éva and Bernhardt Zselyke (students in the classical violin class), Czifery Tamás (chemistry, biology, and science teacher), Luis Luque Álvarez (composer, music teacher)