2005 Media Releases
October 27, 2005
YOUNG SCIENTISTS SHOW THEIR INVENTIONS AT LA TROBE
The inspired creations of Victoria’s budding young scientists will be on display at La Trobe University on Wednesday, 2 November 2005.
Bursary-winning entries in the 2005 Science Talent Search, run by the Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria, will be on display in the Union Hall at the University’s Melbourne (Bundoora) campus from 10 am till 1.30 pm.
The theme of the 2005 Science Talent Search is 'Energy: Future Challenges'.
More than 700 exhibits—inventions, working models, computer programs, games and simulations, scientific photographs, video productions and displays of research projects and much more—will illustrate the breadth of scientific talent among Victorian school children.
Bursary-winning inventions included a gutter cleaner, an ore crusher, a flight hovercraft, an aeroship with scoops on propeller blades to collect rubbish and a waste water electricity generator. Solar catamarans, compost bins, wind turbines,an infra-red water saver, water pressure dampeners and a harmonograph were also amongst the winning projects.
It is the 16th time that La Trobe University’s Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering has been a major sponsor of the exhibition of entries in Science Talent Search.
Science Talent Search was founded in 1952, making it one of the longest-running programs of its type in the world.
It is designed to stimulate on-going interest in science by encouraging independent self-motivated project work among science students, giving them the chance to communicate their achievements to a wider audience and to publicly recognise their achievements in scientific enterprise.
Science Talent Search has five divisions—lower primary, primary, junior, immediate and open. It is in nine sections—experimental research, creative writing, working models and inventions, games, computer programs, scientific wall charts, science photography, video productions and class research project.
Entrants are eligible for awards which include bursaries totalling many thousands of dollars, special medallions, and certificates. There are also school awards whose entries are of very high standard.
Winners of the bursaries and medallions will be announced after the opening ceremony of the Exhibition.
Professor David Finlay, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, will address exhibitors and open the Exhibition.
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For further information, please call: Ms Ellen Finlay, Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria, Tel: (03) 9385 3999 or La Trobe University Media Communications Office, Tel: (03) 9479 2316.