Three science and technology secondary school pupils from the
Southern region won international travel prizes and big cash
scholarships at the Genesis Energy Realise the Dream Awards
at Government House, in Wellington, last night.
Logan Park High School pupil Meran Campbell-Hood (13) and St
Hilda's Collegiate School pupil Anne-Sophie Page (14) won
Royal Society of New Zealand travel awards, which include an
Antarctic sightseeing flight from Melbourne to Commonwealth
Bay and McMurdo Sound.
Meran won the award with her project about minerals in plant
growth media, and Anne-Sophie's project was about mud whelks
in Otago Harbour.
James Hargest College (Invercargill) pupil Jackson Hercus
(17) will join them on the trip, and won a DairyNZ
Outstanding Award worth $5000 for his easily retrievable
water ski.
The top prize went to Diocesan School for Girls (Auckland)
pupil Nina Huang (17) who won the Genesis Energy Supreme
Award worth $7000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the
European Union Young Scientist Competition in Slovakia in
September 2012.
Her winning project on eyes discussed the link between pupil
size and mental activity.
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