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ASSOCIATION NEWS
2017 Young Scientist Awards (continued)
• The Australian Institute of Physics presented their AIP Most
Outstanding Physics Awards to three projects that best
represented the theme ‘Droids, drones and robots’;
The Young Scientist Committee expresses thanks to all the
sponsors for making the project possible.
Grand Awards – the climax of the evening
• Sebel Furniture presented three prizes for their Sebel Testing
and Evaluation Awards;
A record 10 Grand Awards were presented, as opposed to eight
last year and three the year before. Grand Awards are presented
to the overall best project(s) in each age category. The Grand
Award winners in each category are given below with a brief
project description: Budding Young Scientist
• The International Institute for Advanced Studies presented
three prizes for the IIAS Entrepreneur and Commercialisation
Awards;
• Rowe Scientific presented three prizes for their Rowe Scientific
Equipment prize;
Sponsored by the School of Education, Australian Catholic
University, the Budding Young Scientist is presented to the best
overall K-2 project
• Rowe Scientific sponsorship funds were used to establish six
Rowe Scientific $500 Regional Student Grants which were
awarded to:
Scott Manley, St John Bosco Catholic Primary School
Engadine, How can I go faster on my Skis?
1. Kanahooka High School;
Scott found out that when he skied on the edges of his skis
he moved faster than when he skied on their flat surface. He
concluded this was because there is less surface area on the
ground when skiing on the edges, because there was less friction.
2. Macksville Central School;
3. St Paul’s College Wagga Wagga;
4. The Riverina Anglican College;
5. Trinity Catholic College Goulburn;
6. Vincentia High School.
These $500 grants went directly towards a few high-performing
senior science students in each school.
Other sponsor contributions
• $4,300 of the $10,000 Rowe Scientific funds were allocated
to increase prizemoney in each of the secondary category
awards;
• BHP Billiton Foundation's provision of $10,000 was used as
a major source of prizemoney for our scientific investigation
awards;
• The Australian Skeptics provided $5,000 in funding that went
directly into the day-to-day running of the Young Scientist
Awards program and their committee member Peter Bowditch
gave a motivational speech to our student finalists in the
Ceremony;
Scott Manley, St John Bosco Catholic Primary School, is
receiving his Budding Young Scientist Award from Kerry
Sheehan, NESA Science Inspector
• The University of Wollongong provided the venue and the
catering for the Ceremony;
• The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science provided
$12,500 for the support of our 2017 ISEF team;
• Intel Foundation contributed US $5,000 for our ISEF
accommodation in Phoenix;
• Sapphire Foundation donated $4,000 to be distributed to our
high-performing rural students and funded ISEF trips for three
rural students and one rural teacher.
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