For many students, scientific student research (TDK) is their first serious research project, and it is not an easy one. Alongside the technical content, it calls for solid methodology, well-organized documentation, and a confident presentation. For exactly this reason, the IEEE Hungary Section Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group, the Obuda University Robotics Research Team (OU-RRT), and the John von Neumann College for Advanced Studies (NJSZK) jointly organized a practice-oriented, multi-session preparation workshop series at the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics of Obuda University. The program began on March 12, 2026, and accompanied students all the way to the TDK conference in late April, from launching the research through writing the thesis to delivering the talk.

In the first two sessions, led by Zoltán Vámossy, Sándor Szénási, Márk Tamás Baross, and Melánia Pamuki-Puskás, the focus was on the methodology of engineering research and the structure of a TDK thesis, so that participants would have a clear starting framework.

The third session was about credibility. László Berek spoke on ethical source handling and precise citation, and Martin Ferenc Dömény introduced students to the basics of LaTeX, showing how formatting can be left to the system so the author can concentrate on the content.

In the fourth workshop, Lilla Kisbenedek and Melánia Pamuki-Puskás took on more advanced document editing, namely the confident handling of equations, figures, and tables.

The fifth session was an open consultation, where students received personalized help and formatting advice for their own theses.

The sixth session, held just before the conference, was devoted entirely to the presentation. Dániel András Drexler spoke about presentation techniques and speaker confidence, while Melánia Pamuki-Puskás demonstrated the logical structure of TDK presentations and the use of Canva.

Finally, on April 27 and 28, students could rehearse their talks in a supportive, low-stakes setting, so that they would feel at home in front of the committee.

The results speak to the value of the series, as several participants placed well at the conference. Dániel Tóth-Szegő, for example, took 2nd place in the NIK Machine Vision section in a strong field of seven with his work titled “Creating an intarsia image from a photograph using images of given veneers,” earning the right to represent Obuda University at the National Scientific Student Conference (OTDK) in spring 2027. According to his feedback, the LaTeX exercises and the sample presentations shown during the series helped him most in his preparation.

A series like this could not have happened without the participants and the presenters. We thank our speakers and mentors, Zoltán Vámossy, Sándor Szénási, László Berek, Dániel András Drexler, Márk Tamás Baross, Martin Ferenc Dömény, Lilla Kisbenedek, Panna Zsoldos and Melánia Pamuki-Puskás, for the tremendous energy they put into preparing the students.

We also thank the students, who joined us regardless of their home institution and filled the workshops with life through their questions and presence. We hope they will put the knowledge they gained to good use, not only at the TDK but in their later work as well. See you at the next event!