Results for Science Fair 2008
Here are the results for the 2008 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUSIMM NZ Branch | 3 - 20 | Logan O'Sullivan | Bio Diesel | Saint Bernards College |
| Australasian Corrosion Association | 2 - 28 | Oliver Pooke | Diode Discovery | Hutt International Boys School |
| Baldwins | 2 - 21 | Jamie Jolly | All We Want Is A Decent Referee' | Hutt Intermediate School |
| Cancer Society of NZ | 2 - 91 | Grayson Scott | Fat vs Fat-free in Foods | Seatoun School |
| Capital City Science Educators (Doreen Gates Memorial Prize) | 1 - 64 | Jack Wynne | Spud Gun | Seatoun School |
| Capital City Science Educators (Doreen Gates Memorial Prize) | 2 - 151 | Xander Wijninckx | Packaging Power | Wellesley College |
| Capital City Science Educators (Peter Jennings Memorial Prize) | 2 - 139 | Amara Khan-Evans | Is a person's dominant hand necessarily their strongest hand | Thorndon Primary School |
| CRL Energy Ltd | 1 - 67 | Maddie Robb | Wind Turbine | Seatoun School |
| CRL Energy Ltd | 3 - 1 | Simon Pinfold | Hydrogen: Clean; Green Power? | Hutt Valley High School |
| CRL Energy Ltd | 5 - 8 | Harry Chapman | Biodiesel - is it affordable? | Wellington High School |
| Devereux-Blum Training and Development Limited | 3 - 29 | Georgia Rippen | Is Ignorance Bliss When It Comes To Water Bottles? | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| Devereux-Blum Training and Development Limited | 4 - 1 | Cheyaanthan Haran | Solid Ground? Measuring Soil Bearing Capacity. | Hutt Valley High School |
| ESR | 1 - 60 | Cassie Serci | Dirty Money | Saint Francis De Sales School |
| ESR | 3 - 29 | Georgia Rippen | Is Ignorance Bliss When It Comes To Water Bottles? | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| ESR | 3 - 29 | Georgia Rippen | Is Ignorance Bliss When It Comes To Water Bottles? | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| First = in Class 3 | 3 - 55 | Harry Todd | Sound waves | Wellington College |
| First = in Class 3 | 3 - 56 | Devlin Mahoney | Still looking into it | Wellington College |
| First = in Class 5 | 5 - 2 | Nika Thomson | What Hypo Treatment is Best for Type I Diabetics | Sacred Heart College. Lower Hutt |
| First = in Class 5 | 5 - 6 | Kathryn Hally | Salty Lettuce Salad for the Third World | St Oran's College |
| First in Class 1 | 1 - 90 | Sam Watson | The Nature of Light | Tawa Intermediate School |
| First in Class 2 | 2 - 28 | Oliver Pooke | Diode Discovery | Hutt International Boys School |
| First in Class 4 | 4 - 24 | Max Olson | Buses and bricks | Wellington College |
| Fourth in Class 1 | 1 - 62 | Connor Darroch | Burn Baby Burn | Saint Francis De Sales School |
| Fourth in Class 2 | 2 - 64 | Bradon McCaughey; Ben Murton | Wind 'N' Save | Paremata School |
| Fourth in Class 3 | 3 - 29 | Georgia Rippen | Is Ignorance Bliss When It Comes To Water Bottles? | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| Fourth in Class 4 | 4 - 21 | John Geraghty | Energy efficient lighting | Wellington College |
| Geological Society of New Zealand | 2 - 161 | Katrina Boyce; Michelle Lancaster | Spiked Ice | Queen Margaret College |
| Geological Society of New Zealand | 4 - 1 | Cheyaanthan Haran | Solid Ground? Measuring Soil Bearing Capacity. | Hutt Valley High School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 14 | Alex Carr | The Eggsperiment | Hutt International Boys School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 29 | Keegan McLeod; Hamish Ware | Start your Engines | Kelburn Normal School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 64 | Jack Wynne | Spud Gun | Seatoun School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 75 | Abbey Cartmell | Thinking about Children's Thinking | Seatoun School |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 83 | Joshua Gimblett | Girder Breakdown | St Benedicts School; Khandallah |
| Highly Commended | 1 - 111 | Daisy Lutyens | Colour and Mood. | Wadestown School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 1 | Daniela Ravera; Phillippa Skeet | How fast is too fast? | Chilton Saint James School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 2 | Rebecca Tressider | My Maximum Heart Rate | Chilton Saint James School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 33 | Ben Brough | Raging Music ..Roaring Silence? | Hutt International Boys School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 82 | Olivia Vassiliadis | Comprende | Saint Francis De Sales School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 106 | Tasha Keddy | Danger! Electricity at Shocking Levels | South Wellington Intermediate |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 139 | Amara Khan-Evans | Is a person's dominant hand necessarily their strongest hand | Thorndon Primary School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 143 | Garth Norman | Wobbly Buildings | Wadestown School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 143 | Garth Norman | Wobbly Buildings | Wadestown School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 144 | Briana Wu | Memory. Are we different? | Wadestown School |
| Highly Commended | 2 - 151 | Xander Wijninckx | Packaging Power | Wellesley College |
| Highly Commended | 3 - 1 | Simon Pinfold | Hydrogen: Clean; Green Power? | Hutt Valley High School |
| Highly Commended | 3 - 27 | Lauren Spring | Nothing But Net | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| Highly Commended | 3 - 59 | Rebecca Lyons; Noora Pradhorn | Heat and Insulators | Wellington Girls College |
| Highly Commended | 4 - 9 | Logan Page | Fractal Measurement | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| Highly Commended | 4 - 26 | Nathaniel Fallow | Trebuchet | Wellington College |
| Hugh D Gordon Memorial Prize | 4 - 27 | Louis Olsen-Stahl | Sick of gorse - better wait. | Wellington College |
| Industrial Research Ltd | 2 - 166 | Maxine Cooper | The Swiper | Queen Margaret College |
| Industrial Research Ltd | 4 - 24 | Max Olson | Buses and bricks | Wellington College |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 1 - 83 | Joshua Gimblett | Girder Breakdown | St Benedicts School; Khandallah |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 2 - 32 | Stanley Adam | Clean Heat | Hutt International Boys School |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 3 - 23 | Terrance Collins-Hawkins | Standing On Egg Shells | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 4 - 25 | Nathan Palairet; David Sommerville | Busting bridges | Wellington College |
| IPENZ Wellington Branch | 5 - 4 | Danzi Song; Alice Kennedy | Remixing the Resonance | St Marys College |
| Measurement Standards Laboratory | 1 - 90 | Sam Watson | The Nature of Light | Tawa Intermediate School |
| Measurement Standards Laboratory | 2 - 1 | Daniela Ravera; Phillippa Skeet | How fast is too fast? | Chilton Saint James School |
| Measurement Standards Laboratory | 2 - 26 | Ollie Jones | Shotput Release Angles | Hutt International Boys School |
| Ministry of Education | 1 - 75 | Abbey Cartmell | Thinking about Children's Thinking | Seatoun School |
| Ministry of Education | 2 - 61 | Gussie McDonald | Boy germs and girl germs; fact or fiction? | Muritai School |
| Ministry of Education | 2 - 144 | Briana Wu | Memory. Are we different? | Wadestown School |
| New Zealand Institute of Physics Wellington Branch | 1 - 90 | Sam Watson | The Nature of Light | Tawa Intermediate School |
| New Zealand Institute of Physics Wellington Branch | 1 - 102 | Jessica Robertson | Roundabouts | Wadestown School |
| New Zealand Statistical Association | 2 - 26 | Ollie Jones | Shotput Release Angles | Hutt International Boys School |
| New Zealand Statistical Association | 3 - 28 | Rose Galletly | The Dirt on Seeds | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| NIWA | 2 - 64 | Bradon McCaughey; Ben Murton | Wind 'N' Save | Paremata School |
| NIWA | 3 - 25 | Rachel Wiltshire | How Clean is Our Stream | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| NIWA | 3 - 25 | Rachel Wiltshire | How Clean is Our Stream | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| NumberWorks'nWords | 1 - 21 | Millie Sedgwick; Lucy McCreanor | Multi-Tasking | Kelburn Normal School |
| NZ Antarctic Society | 2 - 161 | Katrina Boyce; Michelle Lancaster | Spiked Ice | Queen Margaret College |
| NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch | 1 - 69 | Kate Cleaver | Backwards Wheels | Seatoun School |
| NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch | 1 - 106 | Emma Campbell | What Effects Eyesight? | Wadestown School |
| NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch | 1 - 106 | Emma Campbell | What Effects Eyesight? | Wadestown School |
| NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch | 1 - 106 | Emma Campbell | What Effects Eyesight? | Wadestown School |
| NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch | 2 - 29 | Joshua Brindle | Both Eyes Need the Same Protection.....Or Do They? | Hutt International Boys School |
| NZ Baking Industry Research Trust Award | 2 - 95 | Asling Meredith | Gluten Free Beer Bread | South Wellington Intermediate |
| NZ Farm Forestry Association | 1 - 38 | Ned Grenfell | What is the best firewood? | Muritai School |
| NZ Futures Trust | 1 - 121 | Bryony Campbell | Power Ranger | South Wellington Intermediate |
| NZ Futures Trust | 2 - 64 | Bradon McCaughey; Ben Murton | Wind 'N' Save | Paremata School |
| NZ Futures Trust | 4 - 29 | Matthew Keay | Passive Solar Heating | Wellington College |
| NZ Geophysical Society | 2 - 143 | Garth Norman | Wobbly Buildings | Wadestown School |
| NZ Institute of Chemistry | 2 - 36 | Isabella Thompson | pH Levels- Chemistry | Karori Normal School |
| NZ Institute of Chemistry | 5 - 7 | Christine Luiten | Determination of Chloride Content - Household Bleach Solutions Made Up of Various Water Temperatures | Upper Hutt College |
| NZ Institute of Food Science and Technology | 1 - 58 | Kelsey Hanrahan | Honey Pokey | Saint Francis De Sales School |
| NZ Institute of Food Science and Technology | 3 - 45 | Rosie Tate | Fat tastes better | Tawa College |
| NZ Institute of Food Science and Technology | 4 - 5 | Simon Cross | Blueberry Muffins : Can You Stop Them Going Grey? | Rongotai College |
| NZ Soil Science Society | 3 - 28 | Rose Galletly | The Dirt on Seeds | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| Realise the Dream Nomination | 1 - 90 | Sam Watson | The Nature of Light | Tawa Intermediate School |
| Realise the Dream Nomination | 2 - 28 | Oliver Pooke | Diode Discovery | Hutt International Boys School |
| Royal Society of NZ Wellington Branch Prize for best overall exhibit | 2 - 28 | Oliver Pooke | Diode Discovery | Hutt International Boys School |
| School of Chemical and Physical Sciences | 2 - 114 | Isabel Kelly | Good Vibrations | St Benedicts School; Khandallah |
| School of Chemical and Physical Sciences | 3 - 1 | Simon Pinfold | Hydrogen: Clean; Green Power? | Hutt Valley High School |
| Second = in Class 1 | 1 - 40 | George Brathwaite | What is the best type of rubber to use for a sling shot? | Muritai School |
| Second = in Class 1 | 1 - 113 | Declan Gallagher | Why do we laugh? | Wadestown School |
| Second in Class 2 | 2 - 162 | Jessica Palarait | Sickly Sugar | Queen Margaret College |
| Second in Class 4 | 4 - 5 | Simon Cross | Blueberry Muffins : Can You Stop Them Going Grey? | Rongotai College |
| Third in Class 2 | 2 - 26 | Ollie Jones | Shotput Release Angles | Hutt International Boys School |
| Third in Class 3 | 3 - 18 | Hollie Asprey | Tomorrow's Solution Today | Sacred Heart College. Lower Hutt |
| Third in Class 4 | 4 - 27 | Louis Olsen-Stahl | Sick of gorse - better wait. | Wellington College |
| Third in Class 4 | 4 - 27 | Louis Olsen-Stahl | Sick of gorse - better wait. | Wellington College |
| Third in Class 5 | 5 - 4 | Danzi Song; Alice Kennedy | Remixing the Resonance | St Marys College |
| University of Otago | 5 - 6 | Kathryn Hally | Salty Lettuce Salad for the Third World | St Oran's College |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 1 | Daniela Ravera; Phillippa Skeet | How fast is too fast? | Chilton Saint James School |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 26 | Ollie Jones | Shotput Release Angles | Hutt International Boys School |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 55 | Freya Slessor | Wonderful Wind | Muritai School |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 2 - 55 | Freya Slessor | Wonderful Wind | Muritai School |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 4 - 9 | Logan Page | Fractal Measurement | Samuel Marsden Collegiate |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 4 - 27 | Louis Olsen-Stahl | Sick of gorse - better wait. | Wellington College |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 5 - 2 | Nika Thomson | What Hypo Treatment is Best for Type I Diabetics | Sacred Heart College. Lower Hutt |
| Victoria University of Wellington College of Education | 5 - 4 | Danzi Song; Alice Kennedy | Remixing the Resonance | St Marys College |
| VUW Faculty of Science Prize for an outstanding Class 5 exhibit | 5 - 2 | Nika Thomson | What Hypo Treatment is Best for Type I Diabetics | Sacred Heart College. Lower Hutt |
| VUW Faculty of Science Prize for an outstanding Class 5 exhibit | 5 - 6 | Kathryn Hally | Salty Lettuce Salad for the Third World | St Oran's College |
| VUW School of Mathematics; Statistics and Computer Science | 1 - 102 | Jessica Robertson | Roundabouts | Wadestown School |
| VUW School of Mathematics; Statistics and Computer Science | 2 - 134 | Robyn Bryant | Has Your Data Really Gone? | Tawa Intermediate School |
| VUW School of Mathematics; Statistics and Computer Science | 2 - 166 | Maxine Cooper | The Swiper | Queen Margaret College |
| Wellington Botanical Society | 4 - 27 | Louis Olsen-Stahl | Sick of gorse - better wait. | Wellington College |
| Wellington City Libraries | 5 - 6 | Kathryn Hally | Salty Lettuce Salad for the Third World | St Oran's College |
| Wellington Medical Research Foundation | 2 - 33 | Ben Brough | Raging Music ...Roaring Silence? | Hutt International Boys School |
| Wellington Medical Research Foundation | 2 - 97 | Thomasin Abrahims | Not Getting The Results You Want In Your Tests? Will Cornflakes Help? | South Wellington Intermediate |
| Wellington Medical Research Foundation | 2 - 97 | Thomasin Abrahims | Not Getting The Results You Want In Your Tests? Will Cornflakes Help? | South Wellington Intermediate |
| Wellington Medical Research Foundation | 5 - 2 | Nika Thomson | What Hypo Treatment is Best for Type I Diabetics | Sacred Heart College. Lower Hutt |