Best CREST Bronze Project – First Prize
Title: The Safe Socket
Winner: Sean Murphy, Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar School, Newry, Co. Down
Prize: £1500 to go to the school science department.
Best CREST Bronze Project – Second Prize
Title: Brrrrunel’s Bridge
Winners: Clifton High School, Bristol
Prize: £750 to go to the school science department.
Best CREST Silver Project – First Prize
Title: A Study of an expanding Gull Colony.
Winners: Helen Martin, Our Ladies College, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland
Prize: £1500 to go to the school science department.
Best CREST Silver Project – Second Prize
Title: Cone and rod plotting - Does age or gender affect distribution?
Winner: David Vickers, Calday Grange Grammar School, West Kirby, Wirral
Prize: £750 to go to the school science department.
Best CREST Gold Project – First Prize (Joint)
Title: Analysing protein interactions in mycobacterium tuberculosis
Winners: Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, Elstree, Herts.
Prize: £750 to go to the school science department.
Best CREST Gold Project – First Prize (Joint)
Title: Vandal Proof Fire Hydrant
Winners: Lancaster Royal Grammar School, Lancaster
Prize: £750 to go to the school science department.
Best CREST Gold Project – First Prize (Joint)
Title: Project to design, test and build an Antenna Test Cap
Winners: St Swithun’s School, Winchester
Prize: £750 to go to the school science department.
AstraZeneca Young Scientist of the Year Bronze
Title: Brrrrunel’s Bridge
Winner: Lorna Neill, Clifton High School, Bristol
Prize: £750 to go to student to further her studies.
AstraZeneca Young Scientist of the Year Silver
Title: All Dried Up
Winner: Craig Howard, Afon Taf High School, Merthyr Tydfil
Prize: £1000 to go to student to further his studies
AstraZeneca Young Scientist of the Year Gold
Title: An Evaluation of the Knowledge and Attitudes of Students in Ireland to Vaccination.
Winner: Laura Brown, Loreto College, Dublin
Prize: £1500 to go to student to further her studies
AstraZeneca Young Technologist of the Year Bronze
Title: The Safe Socket
Winner: Sean Murphy, Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar School, Newry, Co. Down
Prize: £750 to go to student to further his studies.
AstraZeneca Young Technologist of the Year Silver
Title: White Tie and Diamond Bridal Gown.
Winner: Paul Aspinall, Severn Vale School, Quedgeley, Gloucestershire
Prize: £1000 to go to student to further his studies.
AstraZeneca Young Technologists of the Year Gold
Title: Working model of seismic-mass isolated automotive test rig.
Winner: Adams Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire
Prize: £1500 to go to students to further their studies.
QinetiQ Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar Prize
Title: Development of Hepatitis B Virus Genotyping Tool.
Winner: Caroline Clark, Filsham Valley School, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
Prize: To attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar in December 2005
London International Youth Science Forum Prizes (Joint)
Title: How true is it that patients with osteoporosis cannot develop osteoarthritis and vice versa?
Winner: Jonathan Ariyaratnam, Bolton School Boys' Division, Bolton
Prize: To join the two week forum of lectures and visits held at the Royal Institution and the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
London International Youth Science Forum Prizes (Joint)
Title: Fibroblast growth factor signalling in embryonic stem cells.
Winner: Kevin Keelan, Calday Grange Grammar School, West Kirby, Wirral
Prize: To join the two week forum of lectures and visits held at the Royal Institution and the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
EU Contest for Young Scientists Prizes (Joint)
Title: How fishy are prawn crackers?
Winners: Hutcheson’s Grammar School, Glasgow
Prize: To attend the 17th European Union Contest for Young Scientists to be held in Moscow in September 2005
EU Contest for Young Scientists Prizes (Joint)
Title: Advance warning of lubricated bearing failure system
Winners: The King Edward VI School Morpeth
Prize: To attend the 17th European Union Contest for Young Scientists to be held in Moscow in September 2005
International Science and Engineering Fair Prize 2005
Title: Commissioning a DPD-3 Diode system
Winner: Gurjit Singh, St John's High School, Dundee
Prize: To attend the International Science and Engineering Fair contest to be held in Phoenix, Arizona in May 2005