Results for Science Fair 2007
Here are the results for the 2007 NIWA Wellington Regional Science and Technology Fair.
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Congratulations to all the winners and huge thanks to everyone that entered. The standard of projects this year was outstanding!
Please note that the prize value indicated may not necessarily be awarded to a single exhibit nor the full value awarded. Special Prizes may be sub-divided at the Judge’s discretion, and be awarded to a number of exhibits.
| Prize | Class | Student Name(s) | Project Title | School |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 2 - 10 | Lydia Easter, Jessica Williams | Ash-plosion | Chilton Saint James |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 3 | Brianna Cox | To wear or not to wear - that is the material question | Chilton Saint James |
| Geological Society of New Zealand | 2 - 10 | Lydia Easter, Jessica Williams | Ash-plosion | Chilton Saint James |
| Geological Society of New Zealand | 2 - 14 | Ashleigh Cornish | A Reef at Lyall Bay Beach | Evans Bay Intermediate |
| AgResearch | 2 - 24 | Jack Manners | Germination of Seeds | Evans Bay Intermediate |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 5 | Kahu Rapira-Davies | Wood Burning | Evans Bay Intermediate |
| NZ Institute of Chemistry | 2 - 39 | Steph Alexander | An Asprin a Day Keeps the Mould Away | Fergusson Intermediate |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 36 | Danielle Stevens | Face the facts, it's the Mac! | Fergusson Intermediate |
| Third in Class 2 | 2 - 44 | Steven Webby | A Helping Hand | Hutt Intermediate |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 52 | Rafe Custance and Stevie Woodwark | Hang up and Drive | Hutt International Boys' |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 52 | Rafe Custance and Stevie Woodwark | Hang up and Drive | Hutt International Boys' |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 49 | Ryan Jackson | Saving Energy | Hutt International Boys' |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 49 | Ryan Jackson | Saving Energy | Hutt International Boys' |
| Cancer Society of NZ | 1 - 15 | Ben Brough | What Protects Us Best Against UV? | Hutt International Boys' |
| Third in Class 1 | 1 - 15 | Ben Brough | What Protects Us Best Against UV? | Hutt International Boys' |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 46 | Stephen Lines | There's no Flight Without Wings | Hutt International Boys' |
| NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch | 2 - 57 | Pareesha Mehta-Wilson, Olivia Klinkum | Colour Blind | Karori Normal School |
| Hugh D Gordon Memorial Prize | 2 - 59 | Sophia Ritchie | Human reflexes | Karori Normal School |
| Industrial Research Ltd | 2 - 61 | Jackie Kiddle | Wind power | Karori Normal School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 54 | Ryan Burnell | Mathematical Games | Karori Normal School |
| School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science | 2 - 54 | Ryan Burnell | Mathematical Games | Karori Normal School |
| Wellington Botanical Society | 1 - 22 | Tariq Kader, Josiah Nelson | Sweating Plants | Karori Normal School |
| New Zealand Statistical Association | 1 - 26 | Sophie Dalzell, Atareta Bridge-Comer | Eye Witness Reports | Karori Normal School |
| AgResearch | 1 - 22 | Tariq Kader, Josiah Nelson | Sweating Plants | Karori Normal School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 26 | Sophie Dalzell, Atareta Bridge-Comer | Eye Witness Reports | Karori Normal School |
| Wellington City Libraries | 2 - 72 | Chloe Stroud | Squeaky Clean | Kelburn Normal School |
| ESR | 2 - 72 | Chloe Stroud | Squeaky Clean | Kelburn Normal School |
| Hugh D Gordon Memorial Prize | 2 - 70 | Nesta Jones | Reactions to Technology | Kelburn Normal School |
| School of Chemical and Physical Sciences | 2 - 74 | Connor Skipworth | Working Wind | Kelburn Normal School |
| First in Class 2 | 2 - 68 | Ali Sedgwick | Subliminal Messages | Kelburn Normal School |
| Ministry of Education | 2 - 66 | Georgia Rippin | Does Goal Setting Affect Results? | Kelburn Normal School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 66 | Georgia Rippin | Does Goal Setting Affect Results? | Kelburn Normal School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 80 | Erik Christenson | Will any apple a day keep your car rolling away? | Maidstone Intermediate |
| AgResearch | 2 - 80 | Erik Christenson | Will any apple a day keep your car rolling away? | Maidstone Intermediate |
| Wellington Medical Research Foundation | 2 - 78 | Beth Passmore, Makayla Woodhead | Smoking is a Drag | Maidstone Intermediate |
| Industrial Research Ltd | 2 - 181 | Simon Pinfold | Rail Gun | Muritai School |
| AgResearch | 2 - 82 | Emily McFarlane | Does organic fertiliser perform better than soil? | Muritai School |
| AgResearch | 2 - 83 | Andrew Gaskell | Are homemade weedkillers as effective as chemical ones? | Muritai School |
| Third in Class 2 | 2 - 181 | Simon Pinfold | Rail Gun | Muritai School |
| Ministry of Education | 1 - 39 | Tim Fortescue-Willis | How do you make a candle brighter? | Muritai School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 37 | Gussie McDonald | How much starch is in our food? | Muritai School |
| NZ Institute of Food Science and Technology | 1 - 37 | Gussie McDonald | How much starch is in our food? | Muritai School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 39 | Tim Fortescue-Willis | How do you make a candle brighter? | Muritai School |
| NZ Farm Forestry Association | 4 - 2 | Shaun Dorresteyn, Ciaran Hargreaves | The birds and the trees | Naenae College |
| Third in Class 5 | 5 - 13 | Hayley Smyth | Human Perception and Bus Lanes | Newlands College |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 90 | Kimberley Tompson, Cristopher Mills | Gum Mythologists | Newlands Intermediate |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 93 | Kemueli Simpson | World in a Bottle | Newlands Intermediate |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 90 | Kimberley Tompson, Cristopher Mills | Gum Mythologists | Newlands Intermediate |
| NZ Institute of Food Science and Technology | 2 - 90 | Kimberley Tompson, Cristopher Mills | Gum Mythologists | Newlands Intermediate |
| Measurement Standards Laboratory | 5 - 2 | Ben Powley | The difference a mouthpiece makes on clarinet tone | Onslow College |
| Second in Class 5 | 5 - 2 | Ben Powley | The difference a mouthpiece makes on clarinet tone | Onslow College |
| NZ Geophysical Society | 2 - 182 | Bradon McCaughey, Aaron Hall | Trusty Tide Times | Paremata School |
| CRL Energy Ltd | 1 - 50 | Ben Murton | Wind power for Porirua | Paremata School |
| Third in Class 1 | 1 - 50 | Ben Murton | Wind power for Porirua | Paremata School |
| AgResearch | 1 - 48 | Robert Phillips | Onga Onga NZ's killer tree | Paremata School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 108 | Rolina Swaneveld | Collosal Chaos | Queen Margaret College |
| Doreen Gates Memorial Prize | 2 - 109 | Amy Lewis | Heart Rate Increase | Queen Margaret College |
| NIWA | 2 - 108 | Rolina Swaneveld | Collosal Chaos | Queen Margaret College |
| NZ Antarctic Society | 2 - 105 | Lillias Henderson, Lydia Hingston | Meltdown | Queen Margaret College |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 106 | Kate Speight | Rise of the Loaf | Queen Margaret College |
| Peter Jennings Memorial Prize | 2 - 106 | Kate Speight | Rise of the Loaf | Queen Margaret College |
| NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch | 2 - 114 | Tommy Aitkin | Cut Onion + Eyes = Tears | Raroa Normal Intermediate |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 56 | Sarah Boyle | The Burning Question | Raroa Normal Intermediate |
| Peter Jennings Memorial Prize | 2 - 114 | Tommy Aitkin | Cut Onion + Eyes = Tears | Raroa Normal Intermediate |
| NZ Soil Science Society | 2 - 115 | Ryan Campbell | www.worm.compost | Raroa Normal Intermediate |
| NZ Antarctic Society | 1 - 55 | Amber Strain | Slim and Slick, Thick not so Quick | Raroa Normal Intermediate |
| Wellington Medical Research Foundation | 1 - 54 | Annie Noakes | Sweet As | Raroa Normal Intermediate |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 54 | Annie Noakes | Sweet As | Raroa Normal Intermediate |
| Highly Commended | 3 - 5 | William McVeagh | Eat My Slime! | Rongotai College |
| NIWA | 3 - 5 | William McVeagh | Eat My Slime! | Rongotai College |
| New Zealand Statistical Association | 3 - 5 | William McVeagh | Eat My Slime! | Rongotai College |
| New Zealand Statistical Association | 4 - 13 | Nika Thomson | Is Your Smoking Making Your Kids Unfit? | Sacred Heart College |
| Cancer Society of NZ | 4 - 13 | Nika Thomson | Is Your Smoking Making Your Kids Unfit? | Sacred Heart College |
| First in Class 4 | 4 - 13 | Nika Thomson | Is Your Smoking Making Your Kids Unfit? | Sacred Heart College |
| University of Otago | 4 - 13 | Nika Thomson | Is Your Smoking Making Your Kids Unfit? | Sacred Heart College |
| AgResearch | 2 - 132 | Zared Wall Manning | Sausage - Fat or Fiction? | Saint Francis De Sales |
| AgResearch | 1 - 78 | Aaron Healy | Vegetables - the solid facts | Saint Francis De Sales |
| Industrial Research Ltd | 3 - 20 | Kate Burgess | An Investigation of Cell Phone Interference With Radio Reception | Samuel Marsden |
| Highly Commended | 3 - 21 | Jessica Wake | Cover, Cool It, Consume the CO2 | Samuel Marsden |
| Industrial Research Ltd | 3 - 20 | Kate Burgess | An Investigation of Cell Phone Interference With Radio Reception | Samuel Marsden |
| First in Class 3 | 3 - 20 | Kate Burgess | An Investigation of Cell Phone Interference With Radio Reception | Samuel Marsden |
| Third in Class 3 | 3 - 18 | Emma Rennie | What, I Can't Hear You | Samuel Marsden |
| New Zealand Institute of Physics | 3 - 19 | Maryam Hamid | Warmth and Wind Chill Factor | Samuel Marsden |
| Royal Society of NZ Wellington Branch Prize for best overall exhibit | 3 - 20 | Kate Burgess | An Investigation of Cell Phone Interference With Radio Reception | Samuel Marsden |
| Realise the Dream Nomination | 3 - 20 | Kate Burgess | An Investigation of Cell Phone Interference With Radio Reception | Samuel Marsden |
| CRL Energy Ltd | 3 - 62 | Logan Page | Wave Power | Samuel Marsden Whitby |
| CRL Energy Ltd | 3 - 62 | Logan Page | Wave Power | Samuel Marsden Whitby |
| New Zealand Institute of Physics | 3 - 62 | Logan Page | Wave Power | Samuel Marsden Whitby |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 3 - 62 | Logan Page | Wave Power | Samuel Marsden Whitby |
| AgResearch | 1 - 92 | Fina Weight | What Substance Allows The Kumara To Grow Faster ? | South Wellington Intermediate |
| AgResearch | 1 - 92 | Fina Weight | What Substance Allows The Kumara To Grow Faster ? | South Wellington Intermediate |
| NZ Farm Forestry Association | 1 - 90 | Tamati Hauraki-Tyrell | What Wood Burns Fastest ? | South Wellington Intermediate |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 1 - 85 | Robbie Inverson | What Has A Smaller Carbon Footprint-Bath or Shower ? | South Wellington Intermediate |
| NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch | 1 - 88 | Tasha Keddy | The Speed of Light | South Wellington Intermediate |
| Doreen Gates Memorial Prize | 1 - 85 | Robbie Inverson | What Has A Smaller Carbon Footprint-Bath or Shower ? | South Wellington Intermediate |
| CRL Energy Ltd | 1 - 85 | Robbie Inverson | What Has A Smaller Carbon Footprint-Bath or Shower ? | South Wellington Intermediate |
| Ministry of Education | 2 - 148 | Madeleine Baughen | I Know What You're Thinking | St Benedict's |
| NumberWorks Karori | 2 - 149 | Hugo Page | Swing Long Swing Short | St Benedict's |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 148 | Madeleine Baughen | I Know What You're Thinking | St Benedict's |
| Unilever Australasia Foundation | 1 - 98 | Joseph Witkowski | Straight as an Arrow | St Benedict's |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 98 | Joseph Witkowski | Straight as an Arrow | St Benedict's |
| First in Class 1 | 1 - 99 | Isabel Kelly | Piano Depression | St Benedict's |
| NZ Farm Forestry Association | 5 - 3 | Afnan Al Rubayee | Biodiversity of Commercial Forests in the Wellington Region | St Catherine's College |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 3 - 27 | Anthony Gordon, Thomas Russell | Noise Pollution | St Mark's Church School |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 2 - 153 | Lucy McLean, Olivia McKay | Air Pollution in the Mt Victoria Tunnel | St Mark's Church School |
| Second in Class 2 | 2 - 153 | Lucy McLean, Olivia McKay | Air Pollution in the Mt Victoria Tunnel | St Mark's Church School |
| Second in Class 4 | 4 - 15 | Kathryn Hally | Hydroponics | St Oran's College |
| Highly Commended | 3 - 33 | Alice Walker, Bronwyn Chapman | What Rubber is most Efficient? | St Oran's College |
| Second in Class 4 | 4 - 15 | Kathryn Hally | Hydroponics | St Oran's College |
| VUW Faculty of Science Prize for an outstanding Class 1-4 exhibit | 5 - 17 | Jessie Bird | Mushroom Medicine | Tawa College |
| VUW Faculty of Science Prize for an outstanding Class 5 exhibit | 5 - 17 | Jessie Bird | Mushroom Medicine | Tawa College |
| NZ Futures Trust (James Duncan | 5 - 17 | Jessie Bird | Mushroom Medicine | Tawa College |
| ESR | 5 - 17 | Jessie Bird | Mushroom Medicine | Tawa College |
| NZ Futures Trust (James Duncan | 5 - 17 | Jessie Bird | Mushroom Medicine | Tawa College |
| First in Class 5 | 5 - 17 | Jessie Bird | Mushroom Medicine | Tawa College |
| Realise the Dream Nomination | 5 - 17 | Jessie Bird | Mushroom Medicine | Tawa College |
| Third in Class 3 | 3 - 35 | Samantha Bates | Carpet Stain removers | Tawa College |
| Wellington Medical Research Foundation | 3 - 36 | Claire Middleton | Do Low Fat Foods Taste Different? | Tawa College |
| Unilever Australasia Foundation | 3 - 35 | Samantha Bates | Carpet Stain removers | Tawa College |
| AgResearch | 3 - 40 | Sophia Cuttriss, Antoniavan Koeverden | Talking to Plants | Tawa College |
| School of Chemical and Physical Sciences | 3 - 38 | Megan Blair, Charlotte Hastie | What a Nutmare! | Tawa College |
| NZ Baking Industry Research Trust Award | 2 - 165 | Colin Douch | Effectiveness of Preservatives | Tawa Intermediate |
| Baldwins | 2 - 166 | Conor McIntosh | Air Power | Thorndon School |
| AgResearch | 5 - 9 | Alice Feng | The Feat of Meat | Upper Hutt College |
| Highly Commended | 5 - 9 | Alice Feng | The Feat of Meat | Upper Hutt College |
| Fourth in Class 5 | 5 - 8 | Katherine Stern | Vitamin C and Temperature | Upper Hutt College |
| NZ Institute of Chemistry | 5 - 7 | Angeline Penberthy | Hypochlorite Ions | Upper Hutt College |
| AgResearch | 3 - 45 | Jessica Gibbs, Amy Vowles | Sheep and Sounds | Upper Hutt College |
| New Zealand Institute of Physics | 1 - 121 | Garth Norman | Wobbly Bridge | Wadestown School |
| NZ Antarctic Society | 2 - 168 | Tristan Katz | Antarctica and Super Cooling | Wadestown School |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 1 - 121 | Garth Norman | Wobbly Bridge | Wadestown School |
| Second in Class 1 | 1 - 121 | Garth Norman | Wobbly Bridge | Wadestown School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 111 | Joseph Bennett | Staying Cool | Wadestown School |
| Wellington Medical Research Foundation | 1 - 111 | Joseph Bennett | Staying Cool | Wadestown School |
| Measurement Standards Laboratory | 3 - 51 | Max Olson | Helmet aerodynamics | Wellington College |
| Second in Class 3 | 3 - 51 | Max Olson | Helmet aerodynamics | Wellington College |