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ASSOCIATION NEWS
2017 Young Scientist Awards (continued)
The Committee would also like to thank Stuart and Firth’s two
oldest daughters, who performed flawless duties during the
Presentation Ceremony. Alexandra Garth handled all the 130
Certificates and envelopes and the 15 trophies without getting
anything out of order. She also hid the second Sebel Young
Scientist of the Year trophy until the last moment to disguise the
fact that our top prize was in fact won by a team. Georgina Garth,
who just completed her HSC exams a few days earlier, was in
charge of ushering the student finalists onto the stage and this
moved fluently.
Each of the photos in this report was taken by them and they were
posted on our Young Scientist photo gallery three days later.
Finally, the Young Scientist Committee deserves special mention
for their level of commitment and support for the whole year. All 15
committee members have their own full-time job and everything
they do for Young Scientist is on a voluntary basis. Every member
of the Committee is passionate in what they do, and all have
the common goal of supporting the teaching of inquiry-based
learning in NSW schools. In particular we would like to warmly
thank Coordinator, Ann Hanna, who did a mammoth task of
steering these awards forward in 2017, despite the adversity of
family sickness which prevented her from attending ISEF.
The committee would also like to thank Jonathan, Leticia and
Timothy Bailey who were our official photographers for the night.
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