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STEM down under students are on top of the world (continued)
Young Scientist team delivered World-class displays and presentations
Oliver wins top Award at ISEF 2018
NSW Year 12 Design and Technology major work, submitted for
HSC marking one day with a copy of the folio and video being
submitted for Young Scientist judging the next day.
To a deafening standing ovation and celebratory bursts of
shimmering tinsel fired from confetti cannons, the final award of
the Grands Awards Ceremony was presented to our Oliver, to the
wild excitement of the Australian contingent. Go to this footage
filmed by team-mate Macinley Butson to see the raw excitement
of Oliver’s reaction when his name is read out.
Technology teachers need to note that only three HSC Design
and Technology major works have been entered into the Young
Scientist Awards during the last two years and all three have
gone on to represent Australia at ISEF – not a bad percentage!
Other Australian award winners
Jade Moxey and Macinley Butson from Sapphire Coast Anglican
School and the Illawarra Grammar School respectively won a USD
$1,000 award from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science
and Community Development and a USD $20,000 Scholarship
for Sustainable Initiatives with Water Technology from the King
Abdul-Aziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and
Creativity. In the Grand Awards Ceremony they also won a USD
$1,000 3rd place Grand Award in the category of Environmental
Engineering.
Oliver was awarded the Gordon E. Moore Award for USD $75,000,
in recognition of his autonomous robotic window cleaner being
the most outstanding and innovative project at the fair and
possessing the greatest potential impact for revolutionizing its’
particular field of work.
Leading up to 2018 ISEF, more than 7 million high school
students around the globe developed original research projects
and presented their work at local, regional, state, and national
competitions in a bid to compete for more than USD 5 million in
awards and scholarships at ISEF. It is therefore highly significant
that the millions of projects were narrowed down to a
Angelina Arora from Sydney Girls High School won a
comprehensive scholarship from Arizona State University, and a
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