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CREST @ The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair 2011
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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.







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Find out about the amazing prizes that are on offer to CREST students and those administered by the British Science Association
Find out how you can nominate your CREST project for a chance to win some CREST only awards!
 
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Highlights of past CREST National Finals and Fairs over the years.

Find out about the National Science and Engineering Competition, open to all 11-18 year olds
 
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