First Prize – $300
- Student Name: Tilly Jowett
- Registration Number: 1-26
- Year: 7
- School: Northland School
- Teacher/s: Alex Oliver
Project Title
Do external airbags on vehicles save lives?
Project Short Description
I wanted to find out if external airbags on the front of vehicles saved pedestrians lives or prevented serious injuries in or after impact with the car. I built four different models of vehicles all the same weight and tested them hitting a Lego figure to scale with and without a balloon attached, acting as an airbag.
Second Prize – $150
- Student Name: Cormac Wood
- Registration Number: 1-21
- Year: 7
- School: Northland School
- Teacher/s: Alex Oliver
Project Title
The Acoustics of Eavesdropping!
Project Short Description
Whispering walls are curved walls that amplify sounds. If someone is at one end of a whispering wall or a curved dam and they whisper, a person at the other end of the wall can hear clearly what they are whispering. I made a 4.8-meter long wall and did some tests with two phones on chairs at each end (One sending, the other receiving sound) and charted different frequencies: 300Hz 1000Hz 3000Hz – I chose those because the Academic I contacted, Trevor Cox said it was the average Hz of a whisper. I then averaged and graphed the data. Secondly, I also tested how a barrier placed in the middle of the wall would affect the results.
Presentation Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gi36XK38inNMrCeDyzZ5ug_yUt_9Fd9bhiwzsDUExxQ/edit?usp=sharing
Third Prize – $100
- Student Name: Miles Armstrong
- Registration Number: 1-28
- Year: 7
- School: Northland School
- Teacher/s: Alex Oliver
Project Title
Sobot: The social robot
Project Short Description
My aim was to make a robot that teaches autistic children to take turns in talking and to not interrupt people. It does this by waiting until the loudness in the room gets below a certain point and then it makes a noise to represent words. Every time the amount of times the robot speaks gets above a certain point it will do a dance as a form of positive reinforcement.
Fourth Prize – $50
- Student Name: Isabella Ismail-Sanders
- Registration Number: 1-57
- Year: 7
- School: Wadestown School
- Teacher/s: Nick Julian
Project Title
Which pH?
Project Short Description
Investigating the effect pH have on plant growth.
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