Argentineans cracking safes
L to R: Luciano Raffagnini, Juan Recoaro, Martín Gómez Rodríguez, Lorenzo Cabrera Blanch, Alejo Melfi
In April, a team of young students from Argentina participated in the Shalhevet Freier “Safe-Cracking” International Physics Tournament on the Weizmann campus.
The team, which included Alejo Martín Melfi, Juan Recoaro, Lorenzo Cabrera Blanch, Luciano Raffagnini and Martín Gómez Rodríguez, from the Instituto Politecnico Superior, from Rosario, participated in the tournament thanks to the support of the company Vicentin and the Argentinean Society of Friends.
The team’s safe was not cracked and they cracked open six of the nine safes they were given as a challenge.
Last year, Argentina participated for the first time in this tournament, represented by a group of students from the Israelite School General San Martín in Córdoba.
This year’s 19 teams came to Rehovot from nine countries and territories: Angola, Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, Romania, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and of course, Argentina. A team from Canada took the first place in the competition.
