Best overall exhibit sponsored by NIWA – 2020

Best overall exhibit sponsored by NIWA – 2020

Jun 30, 2021

Best overall exhibit sponsored by NIWA – 2020

All Features ProjectsAll 2020 Winners
Student Name Lydia Acton
Year 13
School Wellington High School
Teacher/s Murray Chisholm &
Kerry Parker

Prize

$1000 for the best overall exhibit in the Fair, taking into account the year level of the exhibitor(s).

Project Short Description

An investigation into the strange sounds produced from whirling a corrugated plastic tube – sometimes called a sound hose.

Presentation Slides

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c-sDLi8RQ2h8Y8RWyX2pYOPSu9IjoCBL/view?usp=sharing

Protection of Copyright, Intellectual Property and Design
Please note that the student’s intellectual property within entries to this fair has been protected by gazetting this exhibition under Section 9(2) of the Patents Act 2013 and Section 10(2) of the Designs Act 1953 by The Commissioner of Patents. https://www.iponz.govt.nz/about-iponz/the-journal/ 

Runner Up Best overall exhibit sponsored by Royal Society of NZ Wellington Branch – 2020

Runner Up Best overall exhibit sponsored by Royal Society of NZ Wellington Branch – 2020

Jun 30, 2021

Runner Up Best overall exhibit sponsored by Royal Society of NZ Wellington Branch – 2020

All Features ProjectsAll 2020 Winners
Student Name Sophie Hayes
Year 9
School Wellington Girls’ College
Teacher/s Christina Veale

Prize

$500 for the runner up best overall exhibit in the Fair, taking into account the year level of the exhibitor(s) and an invitation to the 2020 Hudson Lecture, including dinner with the speaker afterwards.

Project Short Description

An innovative investigation to build a mechanism that can power a smartwatch without taking it off to charge it.

Presentation Slides

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18K7JIvR-qeGYlIRw8iceUBBQreP96vyc/view?usp=sharing

Protection of Copyright, Intellectual Property and Design
Please note that the student’s intellectual property within entries to this fair has been protected by gazetting this exhibition under Section 9(2) of the Patents Act 2013 and Section 10(2) of the Designs Act 1953 by The Commissioner of Patents. https://www.iponz.govt.nz/about-iponz/the-journal/ 

Best overall exhibit sponsored by NIWA – 2020

Victoria University of Wellington Innovation Prize – 2020

Jun 30, 2021

Victoria University of Wellington Innovation Prize – 2020

All Features ProjectsAll 2020 Winners
Student Name Lydia Acton
Year 13
School Wellington High School
Teacher/s Murray Chisholm &
Kerry Parker

Prize

For the most innovative exhibit in Class 5, Victoria University of Wellington Research Office offers financial support towards expenses in the first year of a Victoria University of Wellington undergraduate degree in science or engineering, or a conjoint degree including science (conditions apply).

Project Short Description

An investigation into the strange sounds produced from whirlling a corrugated plastic tube – sometimes called a sound hose.

Presentation Slides

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c-sDLi8RQ2h8Y8RWyX2pYOPSu9IjoCBL/view?usp=sharing

Protection of Copyright, Intellectual Property and Design
Please note that the students intellectual property within entries to this fair have been protected by gazetting this exhibition under Section 9(2) of the Patents Act 2013 and Section 10(2) of the Designs Act 1953 by The Commissioner of Patents. https://www.iponz.govt.nz/about-iponz/the-journal/ 

Runner Up Best overall exhibit sponsored by Royal Society of NZ Wellington Branch – 2020

Victoria University of Wellington Science Faculty Prize – 2020

Jun 30, 2021

Victoria University of Wellington Science Faculty Prize – 2020

All Features ProjectsAll 2020 Winners
Student Name Sophie Hayes
Year 9
School Wellington Girls’ College
Teacher/s Christina Veale

Prize

For the most innovative exhibit in Class 5, Victoria University of Wellington Research Office offers financial support towards expenses in the first year of a Victoria University of Wellington undergraduate degree in science or engineering, or a conjoint degree including science (conditions apply).

Project Short Description

An innovative investigation to build a mechanism that can power a smartwatch without taking it off to charge it.

Presentation Slides

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18K7JIvR-qeGYlIRw8iceUBBQreP96vyc/view?usp=sharing

Protection of Copyright, Intellectual Property and Design
Please note that the student’s intellectual property within entries to this fair has been protected by gazetting this exhibition under Section 9(2) of the Patents Act 2013 and Section 10(2) of the Designs Act 1953 by The Commissioner of Patents. https://www.iponz.govt.nz/about-iponz/the-journal/ 

Class 1 (Year 7) Prize – 2020

Class 1 (Year 7) Prize – 2020

Jun 30, 2021

Class 1 (Year 7) Prize – 2020

All Features ProjectsAll 2020 Winners

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.

Presentation Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10H9mX3r6kAh7WuFf9lqXAYGUPL8Ge1iD-jVyIdtbsy0/edit?usp=sharing

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.

Presentation Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ikVB1jOefccVmjfnc9HIM6Vz6-U7h_DYAp_qm6_lGBM/edit?usp=sharing

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.

Presentation Slides

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12uOhAuOJigtIkGmOVRNIsmpEU1EBrurO/view?usp=sharing

Protection of Copyright, Intellectual Property and Design
Please note that the student’s intellectual property within entries to this fair has been protected by gazetting this exhibition under Section 9(2) of the Patents Act 2013 and Section 10(2) of the Designs Act 1953 by The Commissioner of Patents. https://www.iponz.govt.nz/about-iponz/the-journal/