2018 STANSW Young Scientist Awards Presentation Ceremony 2018 STANSW Young Scientist Awards Presentation Ceremony PROGRAM MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Master of Ceremonies Anjali Rao, STANSW Young Scientist Awards Coordinator On behalf of the Science Teachers’ Association of NSW, I would like to welcome and congratulate all the talented Welcome Address students receiving an award here tonight. You are members Associate Professor Rodney Vickers, University of Wollongong of 115 students who won a prize out of 830 projects. This is Multimedia Presentation of the ISEF 2018 trip to Pittsburgh exciting and something you should be very proud of Produced by Lachlan Bolton, 2018 ISEF delegate achieving. I would also like to welcome all the parents, Interview with ISEF 2018 Gordon E. Moore Award Recipient grandparents, sponsors, teachers, STANSW Councillors, judges, professors, family members and interested parties Stuart Garth interviewing Oliver Nicholls for coming along and sharing this eventful evening with the Presentation of STANSW Scientific Investigations Awards young scientists of the future. Presentation of IIATE Models and Innovation Awards In 2018, there were 100 schools that entered the STANSW Young Scientist Presentation of MANSW Working Mathematically Awards Awards program and 47 of these schools won awards. Also 97 of the prize Message from NESA Inspector, Science winners entered for the first time. This is very encouraging and you should feel Kerry Sheehan motivated to keep improving on your work. We are delighted that some of our Announcement of NSW Nominee in the 2019 BHP Billiton Foundation Science past winners have entered the Young Scientist Awards many years running by and Engineering Teacher Award building on and improving their scientific thinking skills and as a result achieved Presentation of STANSW Most Promising Awards great things. Macinley Butson (who was joint Young Scientist of the Year in 2017) became NSW Young Australian of the Year, and Oliver Nicholls won the Keynote Address US $75,000 Gordon E. Moore award when the STANSW Young Scientist Awards Eddie Woo, 2018 Australia’s Local Hero Award recipient took a delegation to ISEF earlier this year. Presentation of Sponsored Awards Part I Message from a Sponsor What is very exciting too is that both girls and boys can do science equally well. Peter Bowditch, Australian Skeptics The STEM subjects are not for one gender only. Over the years we have been encouraging girls to take part and this year 67 girls won awards. Presentation of Sponsored Awards Part II Announcement of Rural Young Scientist Awards None of this would have happened if we did not have a dedicated group of Announcement of Grand Awards people on the STANSW Young Scientist committee, which this year was led by Dr Melissa Thompson, ISEF Judging Panel Anjali Rao. I would like to recognise the many hours the committee dedicate to Closing address this program and also thank the teachers who support their students and the Margaret Shepherd, President, Science Teachers’ Association of NSW judging process for their commitment to science. Margaret Shepherd President, Science Teachers’ Association of New South Wales - 1 - - 2 -
2018 STANSW Young Scientist Awards Presentation Ceremony 2018 STANSW Young Scientist Awards Presentation Ceremony STANSW Young Scientist Committee MESSAGE FROM THE COORDINATOR Anjali Chandrasekar-Rao ( Coordinator ) What a year I chose to take on the role of STANSW Bob Wheway ( IIATE Representative ) Young Scientist Coordinator! It has seen the successful Suzanne Berry ( MANSW Council ) launch of many new initiatives, new sponsorship Julie Rogers ( STANSW Council ) collaborations, an exponential increase in student Maree Woods ( STANSW Counci l) participation in the program and of course national and Leonard Cheung international success beyond any of our wildest James Cleaver dreams. Lauren DiMarco Ian Fairhurst In December 2017 we were thrilled to learn that Macinley Butson, (Joint Young Scientist of the Year, Firth Garth 2017) had been chosen as the NSW Young Australian of the Year. Macinley Stuart Garth has been a wonderful and inspirational ambassador for STEM and Ann Hanna particularly women in STEM, presenting and speaking at workshops, Edwina Hine symposia and even to royalty! Annie Martin Michele Mawer In February we welcomed a new sponsor for our Primary Working Philippa Miller Technologically category awards as well as the Paper Planes competition - the OshClub and Junior Adventurers Group. It has been a pleasure to work Elizabeth O'Connor alongside them and we look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration. ISEF 2018 will live in the memories of our entire delegation of students, The STANSW Young Scientist Committee is a group of dedicated volunteers who chaperones and supporting family as one of those once in a lifetime work to develop innovative STEM strategies for supporting NSW teachers. experiences. Our large team of 10 student delegates were amazing ambassadors for STEM, our state and our country, and a wonderful experience was capped off by Oliver Nicholls’s wonderful achievement. ISEF Judging Panel We saw the successful launch of many new initiatives in our program from Dagmar Arthur McCloughan ( Judging Chair ) new age categories, new Depth Study Awards targeting Year 11 students, Dr Melissa Thompson ( Science Education Expert ) our first regional judging hub and a record number of entries with over 830 Associate Professor Kerry Hitos ( Biomedical Scientist ) projects entered. Stuart Garth ( SRC Chair ) It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this night of nights in our Grant Byrne ( IIATE President ) calendar. I know you will leave feeling inspired, elevated and reassured that our world may be in good hands if these brilliant young people whom we The ISEF Panel is a highly experienced judging panel, who review the top 15-18 celebrate tonight have anything to do with it. projects and select the STANSW Young Scientist of the Year and the finalists for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Anjali Rao STANSW Young Scientist Awards Coordinator 2018 - 3 - - 4 -
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