Young Scientist Awards

NSW students shone once again at the International Science & Engineering Fair 2019 with four Grand Prizes!

Eliza Martin – 4th Place in Biomedical & Health Science;

Callum Predavec – 4th Place in Mathematics and an Honorary Mention Special Award from NASA;

Emma Serisier – 3rd Place in Animal Science; and

Macinley Butson – 2nd Place in Translational Medicine and Special Award from the China Association for Science & Technology.

Also Lucy Lake (BHP Team) – 2nd Place in Engineering Mechanics and a Special Award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society. #STEM#NSW#AUS@stansw

Our team of 9 students and 4 chaperones are headed to Phoenix, U.S.A. in May to represent NSW and Australia at Intel ISEF 2019 (The International Science and Engineering Fair). The team consists of:

Callum Predavec, Mosman High School: Planetary Transfer Calculator Callum will be our first ever Mathematics entry in ISEF

Macinley Butson, The Illawarra Grammar School: The Smart System

Kelvin Du, Newington College:Investigating humidity related nuisance alarms in smoke detectors

Emma Serisier, Bishop Druitt College: The Use of of chickens as bio-recyclers of household organic waste

Isaac Heagney, St. Columba Anglican College: SARFISH Safety Alert for Rock Fishing

Angelina Arora, Sydney Girls High School: The Effect of Algae on Oil Spill Remediation

Eliza Martin, PLC Sydney: The Development of a Novel Treatment for Lactose Intolerance Using Synbiotic Formulations

Sophie Angus, PLC Sydney: Using coriander to remove lead from contaminated water

Olivia Arvanitis, Meriden School: Water Monitoring System

The team will also include our Broadcom Masters representative

Dean Chapman, MacAuley Catholic College: To grow or not to grow….that is the question

We are grateful for funding from our new sponsors: The Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer (through their Supporting Young Scientists Program SYSP) and CrookEd Science along with our Principal Sponsor The Sapphire Foundation for making it possible for us to send the whole complement of 9 projects to ISEF.

Please return back for more posts highlighting each of our talented delegates’ projects.

Congratulations to all the winners at the BHP Foundation Science & Engineering Awards!

We are really proud of the efforts by the NSW representatives who have done amazingly well! Our students took out 5 of the 7 awards at the wonderful ceremony in Melbourne on Tuesday 5th February.

James Casey-Brown won 3rd place in engineering category with his “Surf Safe”, a device that uses a CO2 cylinder to inflate a buoyant ring to help save lives of people at beaches.

Lucy Lake won 2nd place in Engineering for her “Phase3”, a biomimicry inspired design for a rowing oar. The oar design is based on the whale tubercle.

Anne Zimmerman and Tiara Meier won 2nd place in Science Investigations into “Soil Biology:The missing link in Pasture Production”. They applied chemical and biological amendments to increase soil health and then compared which gave the best results in restoring soil.

Macinley Butson won 1st place in Investigations for “The SMART System” which incorporates two new devices to reduce unwanted skin damage during radiotherapy cancer treatment.

Macinley Butson had another win, this time in the Innovator to Market category for “The SODIS Sticker”. This is a sticker that accurately measures solar UV exposure required to sanitise water to a high degree of accuracy.