Inappropriately dressed in a Union Jack T-shirt while representing Malta, Matthew Ben Attard, and Joachim Johan Zammit represented Maltese students at the 25th annual EU Contest for Young Scientists which was held in Prague over the past days. The three first prizes of €7,000 each were awarded to Perttu Pölönen from Finland for “Music A' Clock”, Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow from Ireland for “A statistical investigation of the effects of diazotroph bacteria on plant germination” and Frederick Turner from the United Kingdom for "Genetics at home: Building a PCR machine and other equipment for setting up a home genetics lab". The three second prizes and three third prizes were given to projects from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany and Belarus. The Maltese effort, a rather low-tech effort, was entitled Switch Off, Unplug, Save! and focused on ways to save energy.