2003 Merit Award Winners
Categories:
ACT
John Stewart Aslanides
Telopea Park School
'Electricity from thin air'
Emma Batchelor
Lyneham High School
'Cracks In Soil'
Ineka Booth
Lyneham High School
'An investigation into Anti-fogging Agents: What, Why and How they work'
Milly Brent
Lyneham High
'Milly's Marvellous Mulches'
Eddy Gordon Collett
Telopea Park School
'The effect of drought on the Tallong Midge Orchid (Genoplesium Plumosum)'
Jessica Farrant
Telopea Park School
'Immune to Antibiotics - Try Natural Remedies'
Lokiny Doreen Gnanendran
Telopea Park School
'Determination of Colour Preferences of Children'
Rafael Matthias Jerjen
Telopea Park School
'Electricity from thin air'
Shufan Jiang
Lyneham High School
'How long water can stay fresh and which organisms develop'
Alice Lang
Telopea Park School
'Triradii and Genes'
Evelyn Lawrence
Lyneham High School
'Can You Hear Me.....? Using Mobile Phones Safely'
Radium Mardia
Telopea Park School
'Ever wondered how it feels to have breast cancer?'
Erin Kate Parkinson
Telopea Park
'Save our River - A Study of the Molonglo River'
Alice Roberts
Telopea Park School
'Bacteria Levels After Drying Clothes'
Tom Shael
Telopea Park School
'How different drinks affect the lining of the stomach'
Lucy Isabel Stevenson
Lyneham High School
'Soggy Puddings'
Michael Swinton
Lyneham High
'How detergents affect the growth of plants'
Alyce Thompson
Telopea Park School
'Triradii and Genes'
NSW
Monique Beutum
Moriah College
'Double the Oxygen, Double the Burntime?'
Wynnie Cheung
St George Girls High School
'Insulation in Homes'
James Constable
St Josephs, Aberdeen,
''Viscosity' - Parts 1 and 2'
Matt de Boer
Woolooware High
'The use of blow flies in the estimation of time since death'
Bonney Emmett,
Ascham
'To investigate which brands of white bread grow mould faster'
Tiffany Louise Estrich
St Josephs Catholic High School
'Side by Side - are the left and right sides of the body identical?'
Kris Fitzpatrick
Galston High School
'The Mouse Trap'
Nicky Goldberg
Moriah College
'Double the Oxygen, Double the Burntime?'
Timothy Griffith
Taree High School
'A study of two saltmarsh plants in northern NSW - the native Maritime Rush and the introduced Sharp Rush'
Duncan Bruce Hellmers
The Scots College
'The effect of humidity on induced current'
Matt Joel Hiesgen
St Joseph's Catholic High School
'Chemical vs Organic: The eternal debate'
Gregory John Howe
Fort Street High School
'A comparison of aquaponic and hydroponic growth of lettuces using a flow through system'
William Lim
The Scots College
'The Effect of Electromagnetic Forces On Ferro Magnetic Projectiles of Different Sizes'
Sophie McIntyre
Bishop Druitt College
'Chromatography'
Marian Portugal
Christ Catholic College Loyola Campus
'Free ride from gravity'
Katie Reinbott
Cheltenham Girls High
'Comparison of different bathroom mould cleaners'
Geordie Robinson
Bishop Druitt College
The Browning of Apples'
Robert Bruce Stewart
Karabar Distance Education Centre
'Galileo's Billycart'
Melita Stubis
Sefton High School
'Effect of Age on Olfaction (Sense of Smell)'
Francesca von Braun-Bates
Ascham
'The effect of solar radiation on the breakdown of chemicals in tap water'
QLD
Azra Ahmatovic
Keebra Park S. H. S.
'Antibiotics in chickens'
Richard Bentley
All Saints Anglican School
'Combating Salinity'
James Bone
Trinity Lutheran College
'Does increasing the chemical environment affect the short-term biological growth of a plant?'
Ryan Boxe
Keebra Park S H S
'Solar Furnace Desalination - Is it Feasible?'
Joel Bury
Trinity Lutheran College
'Testing the colligative impurities of water'
Vincent Chan
Trinity Lutheran College
'Testing the colligative impurities of water'
Kult Heaton
Trinity Lutheran College
'The conductivity of impure waters'
Regan Ireland
Trinity Lutheran College
'Crusaders Of The Ale'
Laura Irvine-Brown
Trinity Lutheran College
'Testing Soils'
I-Chun Lin
Trinity Lutheran College
'Determining the amount of phosphate in detergents'
Bernadette Clare Miller-Greenman
Clairvaux MacKillop College
'Is your tap water REALLY safe?'
Caleb Pattugalan
Trinity Lutheran College
'Does increasing the chemical environment affect the short-term biological growth of a plant?'
Matthew Pavicic
Trinity Lutheran College
'Crusaders Of The Ale'
Candice Sagi
Trinity Lutheran College
'Biochemical Investigation of Gene Expression'
Ken Sakai
Trinity Lutheran College
'Electrolytes and Electrolysis'
Jae Maree Thone
Keebra Park Secondary High School
'Do Ants Produce Antibiotics?'
Kate Tremellen
Trinity Lutheran College
'What pH level is most conducive to corrosion in Iron and Copper?'
Vino Vivek
Kirwan S H S
'Investigating how algae growth varies in manmade waterways versus natural waterways'
Monique Walker
Trinity Lutheran College
'The Cleaning Power of Different Water'
Nikki Wawryk
Trinity Lutheran College
'Effects of Temperature Upon Body Injury'
SA
Tiffanwy Klippel-Cooper
Glenunga International
'The viability of solar produced sea-crete'
James Klippel-Cooper
Glenunga International
'The viability of solar produced sea-crete'
Annie Meredith Walker
Walford Anglican School for Girls
'Vacuums that Suck'
TAS
Lucy Jane Hamilton
Prospect High School
'Soils, Forests, Fertility and Erosion'
Zhi Lim
The Friends School
'Investigating the effect of collapsed gas vesicles on post thaw of cryopreserved cyanobacteria'
VIC
Tom Cristie
Horsham College
'Gypsum Solubility'
WA
Amrick Sinah Banwaith
Willetton S. H. S.
'A study of Rust Inhibitors'
Melanie Anne Baumanis
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Simulated Wombat Burrow'
Erin Maree Brice
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Fish Attraction'
Gemma O'Brien Brown
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Investigation into the anti-biotic properties of local seaweed species'
Crosby Chang
Willetton S. H. S.
'Air Resistance on Freefalling Objects'
Clement Chng,
Willetton S. H. S.,
'Earmuffs vs Earplugs - Their effectiveness over a range of sound frequencies.'
Jessica Cronin
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Fish Attraction'
Joelin Teh
Willetton Senior High School
'Fighting off acid rain damage'
Isabel Grace Da Silva
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Investigation into Colour Perception in Peripheral Vision'
Brian Drake
Willetton Senior High School
'Students need refrigerated schoolbags'
Naomi Elford
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Variations in scheme water GH in Perth, Western Australia'
John Foong
Willetton S. H. S
'Earmuffs vs Earplugs - Their effectiveness over a range of sound frequencies'
Melissa Leanne Gilbert
Willetton Senior High School
'Saving the Swan River'
Nishanth Sooriyapava
Willetton Senior High School
'Students need refrigerated schoolbags'
Claire Louise Herne
Woodvale Senior High School
'The Interaction of Surface Water and Groundwater in Lake Goollelal, City of Wanneroo, Western Australia'
Robyn Hewitt
Willetton S. H. S.
'How much detergent is too much'
Eric Hoh
Willetton S. H. S
'Earmuffs vs Earplugs - Their effectiveness over a range of sound frequencies'
Amy Howell
Willetton S. H. S.,
'Towing Icebergs: The melting rate of icebergs, as a function of velocity'
Emma Allyce Reeves Killen
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Observation of Seahorses under different coloured lights for use of pets'
Nicholas Lim
Willetton S. H. S.
'A study of Rust Inhibitors'
Anthony Yih-Wei Lim
Willetton Senior High School
'Passive heat storage of solar heat using a phase change material'
Xing-Shu Liu
Willetton Senior High School
'Passive heat storage of solar heat using a phase change material'
Yang Liu
Willetton S. H. S.
'How much detergent is too much'
Rena Matsuda
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Observation of Seahorses under different coloured lights for use of pets'
Michelle Lee McComish
John Paul College
'Waste and the Environment'
Katherine Michelle Mead
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Betta Splendens Behaviours'
Amanda Merdzan
Willetton S. H. S.
'Towing Icebergs: The melting rate of icebergs, as a function of velocity'
Kendall Moores
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Betta Splendens Behaviours'
Isabel O'Neill
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Betta Splendens Behaviours'
Joshua Parker
Willetton S. H. S.
'The investigation of the Flow Rate of Water'
Parvati Pillai
Willetton S. H. S.,
'Fighting off acid rain damage''
Emma Ramsey
Heathfield High School
'Electron Diffraction Using a Graphite Grid'
Laura Elizabeth Rigden
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Investigation into the anti-biotic properties of local seaweed species'
David Steven Rose
Willetton Senior High School
'Passive heat storage of solar heat using a phase change material'
Janki Shah
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Simulated Wombat Burrow'
Lara Jayne Taylor
St Mary's Anglican Girls School
'Asthma Research'
Adwin Tjoeng
Willetton Senior High School
'Students need refrigerated schoolbags'
Vincent Ho Chung Yeung
Willetton Senior High School
'Students need refrigerated schoolbags'