Calling all CREST Projects – your chance is now!!!!!

If you have undertaken a new CREST projects since the 1st July 2009, and you want the chance to show your work to the judges and public for a chance to win some amazing prizes then you should self-nominate your project into the National Science & Engineering Competition.

You must be between 11 and 18* and have undertaken a Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths project that is of a high standard.

You need to visit the National Science & Engineering Competition website and fill in the quick registration form, and upload a project summary for the judges to read.

If you are chosen to attend and you have a CREST award there will also be a host of other prizes available just for CREST holders.

See below at the winners form the 2010 event.
*You must be this age on the 1st June 2010 this year.

CREST PRIZES 2010

BRONZE / SILVER
John Innes Centre Biology Prize
Project - Don't Sweat!
Winners - Rachel Rawlinson & Aysha Waheed
School - Sydenham High School
 

Project - Break it down (but how?)
Winners - Morgan Daniels, Sophie Landau & Georgia Lever
School - Watford Grammar School for Girls

CREST Experience Prize
Project - iRap
Winners - Emma Butler, Lauren Donworth, Rachel King & Jess Wilks-Brawn
School - Glenmoor School

Project - Fuel for thought
Winner - Simon Brookes
School - Balcarras School

Project - How old is too old?
Winner - Sarah Benham
School - Simon Balle School

Project - Break it down (but how?)
Winners - Morgan Daniels, Sophie Landau & Georgia Lever
School - Watford Grammar School for Girls

Project - Bath alarm
Winner - Gavin Presland
School - Fearnhill Maths and Computing College

Project - Sparklers
Winners - Kulvinder Lal
School - Heston Community School

Best CREST Bronze
Project - How old is too old?
Winner - Sarah Benham
School - Simon Balle School

Best CREST Silver
Project - Improving mucus detachment in Cystic Fibrosis
Winners - Rebecca Kummert & Sile Stafford
School - Sutton Park School, Dublin

GOLD
RCUK Experience Prize
Project - Cooker Smart
Winner - James Popper
School - Marlborough School

Project - The Phantom Vessel
Winners - James Paolo Carlos, Tomasz Iwaniak, Christian Reddington & Joseph Storer-Martin
School - St David's Catholic School

Project - Time Cop - Set Top Box
Winner - Michael John Lynch
School - St Mary's Grammar School

Project - Flat Packed Christmas Tree
Winner - James Lambert
School - Cheltenham College

London International Youth Science Forum Prize
Project - Carbon monoxide: Friend or foe?
Winner - Harriet Jones
School - The Abbey School, Reading

Project - RNA interference to reduce insecticide resistant genes in insects
Winner - Claire Cerins
School - The Cavendish School

Nuffield Foundation Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar
Project - The Discovery of a new method of detecting immunoglobulin A (antibody) deficiency linked to Coeliac Disease
Winners - Alex Pritchard
School - Northampton High School

Intel ISEF Prize
Project - A novel regulatory mechanism in cancer-linked cell signaling
Winner - Hannah Stuart
School - The King's School, Canterbury

Best CREST Gold
Project - Cooker Smart
Winner - James Popper
School - Marlborough School

Runners Up and Medal Winners

Runner Up Best CREST bronze

Project - Using the principle of Heron's Fountain to construct a solar assisted shower

Winner - Alea Hayes & Rhianna McPartland
School - Oakgrove Integrated College

Runner Up Best CREST Silver

Project - Don't Sweat!
Winner - Rachel Rawlinson & Aysha Waheed
School - Sydenham High School GDST

Runner Up Best CREST Gold

Project - Developing in vitro models using fish macrophages to investigate latency in Tuberculosis
Winner - Rebecca Chroston & Emma Donoghue
School - Dollar Academy

Medal Winners

Project - Is the ability to estimate length age related?Winner - Chay Ryan
School - Mary Webb School and Science College

Project - The effects of Perivascular Adipose Tissue on aortic contractility
Winner - Abbigale Howson
School - Stockport Grammar School

Project - Magic Maggots
Winner - Scott Griffiths
School - Hutchesons' Grammar School

Project - “The Mass Driver Project” (Cool Magnets)
Winner - Ben Havery
School - Kingdown School

Project - Dyno Slow
Winner - Paul McKeever, Bryan Murphy and Piaras Murphy
School - Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar School

Project - DJB Lamb Adopter
Winner - David Boyd
School - Cambridge House Grammar School

Don't forget, students over 13 can join up with CREST on Facebook. Search for 'CREST Awards' and become a fan - keep in touch with freinds from this years Big Bang.