2008-9 Finalists
Mahin Ahmad & Mitu Shroti, University of Liverpool, Investigation into Methods for Achieving Pluripotency in Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Alex Aidoo-Micah, Robert Clack School, Serotonin involvement in probabilistic
Anya Allison, Verity Byrne, Polina Cook, Amy Pattenden, Michele Qy & Francesca Roma, Rainham School for Girls, Water Conservation
Damon Armstrong, Adam Cottingham & Harry Welsh, Burnside Business & Enterprise College, Parapet Renovation at Cragside Bridge
Michael Aspinall & Emma Taylor, Unilever R&D, Low Cost Solar Water Heaters suitable for Developing Markets
Lucy Atkinson, Rachel Bennett, Hannah Reynolds & Emma Watson, Herts and Essex High School, The Effects of Acid Rain
Sophie Austin, King Edward VI Grammar School, Immunohistochemical characterisation of neurons in central brain regions associated with pain pathways
Sophie Avery, The College of Richard Collyer, An Investigation into the Immunogenicity of Helicobacter Hepaticus Flagellin
Pooya Azarhoosh, Stephen Clee, Josie Duffy, Faye Morrison, Arman Salimian & Nicholas Sellen, St Davids Catholic College, Fork Lift Truck Warning System
Laurence Baggery, Emily Bates, Luke Duggen, Charlotte Grey & Ashley Rudd, Helenswood School, Thermocouple Pin Identification
Lena Baker, St Gregory the Great Catholic School, Induction and quantification of g-H2AX foci following 1-10 Gy g-irradiation
Laksha Bala, Canons, The Expression of C-RET 51 Mouse Embryos
Aaron Barker, Natty Campbell, Aiden Horsefield, Nothile Moyo, Jake Padley & Lewis Rily, Children's Young People's Directive, MP3 player amplifier
Imogen Barker, Nottingham Girls High School, Investigation into Lip Plumping Technology
Phillipa Barker, Jennifer Bosher, Hanna Moore & Louise Young, Rugby High School for Girls, Offsetting Carbon Footprints More Creatively
Helen Beaumont, University of Hertfordshire, Calculating the proper motions of T dwarfs and searching for common proper motion companions
Sam Bedford, School of Biosciences, FGF-2 and its Implications in Muscle Atrophy
Paul Bennet, Daniel Cassey, David Comer & Chris Paines, Highcliffe, Son of Spikey
Karishma Bhuruth, The University of Cambridge Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Cellular Bases Involved In The Development of Habitual Cocaine-Seeking
Laura Bingham, Kirbie Kendal School, Fibre Formation
Michael Bradford, Anthony Fox, Owen McGowen & Matthew Robson, St Bede's School, Rain Water Harvesting
Thomas Carnell, Bede College, Investigating the rate of deactivation of DPT2 Catalyst resin from the CCR.
Edward Chadd, Harrow School, Bridge Building in the Tropics
Alex Christmas, Danesfield Church of England School/WSCC, 2 Dye 4: Investigating Natural Dyes
Matthew Citron, University of Glsagow, Automated Feature Recognition with a Newly Characterized CCD
Sara Clark, William Johnston, Dean Reilly, Lucy Scott & Laura Scott, Broxburn Academy, Water in Our School
Jamie Connett, Andrew Hyams, Timothy Keown & Christopher Smith, Sir John Lawes, Electro Mechanical Device
Andrew Cowan, Sutton Grammar School, Supermarket Change Machine
Timothy Culwick, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Electron Periodicities in Saturn's Middle Magnetosphere
Megan Daurie, Campion school, Investigation into the testing of Clostridium difficile
Freya Davies, Howells School, Optimisation of light emissions from the luminous bacterium Photorhabdus
Rachael Dellar, Royal High School, Ice Cover and Ocean Conditions in the Arctic Northwest Passage
Mira Deshmukh, North London Collegiate School, A screen for genes mediating Drosophila neuroblast quiescence
Patrick Diaz & Claire Hogben, St Edward's College / Upton Hall FCJ, Natural Variation in Circadian Clock function in the plant Capsella bursa-pastoris
Veronica Douglas, Severn Vale, Sheer Magic
Zoe Eardley, Newport High School, Chatterboards
Emma Edwards, Zoe Smallwood, Emma Tillsley & Lucy Todd, John Cleveland College, The Science behind special effects prosthetics
Luke Ellison, Jack Jones, Adam Mead & Matt Read, Countesthorp Community College, Control Rod Channel Bore Measuring Unit
Henry Finnigan, Ashley Morris, Tom Osborne & Andrew Robinson, Mary Webb School, Could your hayfever Remedy Set Your Heart Racing?
Robert Flanders, Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, The applications of Penrose and Archimedean Tilings to Quasicrystal Surfaces
Amy Frezel, Bexhill College, The Relationship between Exam Pressure and Stress
Ryan Frost, Wymondham High School Sixth Form, Next Generation of Vestibule Door Control
Robert Garnett, Imperial College London, How hot were the pyroclastic flows of Mount Vesuvius?
Lucinda Giles, Highworth Grammar, An investigation into the crib biting behaviour of a pony
Paige Goddard, Beccy Guest, Chloe Martin, Daniella Parker & Ellen Roberts, Handsworth Grange Community Sports College, Mooneze
Christopher Guest, European School Culham, Mapatrack - Mapping Website for GPS Trackers
Rosy Halfyard, The Cavendish School, Fighting Superbugs: Validating Disinfectants
Rachel Harris, The Hertfordshire and Essex High School, Devising a New Test for Wettabilty
Peter Hatfield, Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Plasma Prominences
Jack Henderson, Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi, Bike Claw
Clare Hill & Dearbhla McCotter, Loreto College, Folic Acid Intake in Teenager Girls
Tom Hillitt, Queen Mary's Grammar School, Guitar Stand
Eugenia Ho, Fettes College, Distortion of Sitka spruce with moisture content
Adam Hunt, The Grammar School at Leeds, Pif1: The Last Barrier to Tumorigenesis?
Veronica Ilkow, Channing School, The Use of Western Blotting and Flow Cytometry to Confirm Receptor Expression in Different Cell Lines
Chris Jefferies, Stephen Maughan & Matthew Smith, Pershore High School, Setting Intsruments for a Proximity Probe
Hannah Johnston, Wreake Valley Community College, Enzymatic Reduction of Pro-chiral Ketones
Matthew Jordan, Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, Leaves in the Line?
Qasim Latif, Kirkcaldy high school, Synthesis of polymetallic complexes
Sarah Latty, Cramlington Learning Village, The effect of pH on the ions in soils and leaves
Christopher Lawrence, Bedford School, Fount Funnel - A device to help reduce spillages
Christopher Lazenbatt, Berkhamsted Collegiate School, Analysis of Biochar's Effect on Soil Aggregation
Andrew Lees, Devonport High School for Boys, Pulse
Michelle Ma, Megan Moore & Elina Shaymuichametova, Howells School, Novel Laser Photonics Project
James McKee, Calday Grange Grammar School, Electronic Lock Box
Owen McMeel, St Mary’s Grammar, Wire Wise
Mark Millar & Ryan Walsh, Abbey Grammar School, Gas Watch
Maya Mistry, National Institute for Medical Research, Investigation into DNA Helicases through mutagenesis
Ciara Morgan-Feir, St. Patrick's Academy, Biomass Boiler for Dale Farm
Vijaytha Muralidharan & Kirsty Smith, Dollar Academy, The Rise of TB
Olena Mykhaylyk, Notre Dame High School, Design of a motor for electric taxiing of aircraft
Charlotte Mykura, Royal Holloway University, Can environmental characteristics explain the colonisation of thistles by foliar fungal endophytes?
Saroshen Naidoo, Bedford School, Re-design of the CD or Jewel Case
Anthony Nathaniel, The Manchester Grammar School, DAZZLE (Direction Activated Zig Zag Laser Engagement)
Nisha Nesaratnam, Aylesbury High School, The Effectiveness of Aptamers as Anti-Cancer Agent
Richard Newman, Stephen Rose & Graeme Sneddon, Hutchesons’ Grammar, Super Soaps
Robert Nunn, Pool Business and Enterprise College, Beech Desk
Darren O’Gorman, Mary Immaculate Secondary School, An Investigation on the Effects of Temporary Limestone Lakes (Turloughs) on leaf morphology of Ranunculus repens
Nana Oye Bosompra, University of Reading, What Is In Your Salad? Analysis of the metabolites in lettuces and their changes in postharvest storage
Julia Pakpoor, Woodhouse College, Parkinson's disease- the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Jina Pakpoor, Woodhouse College, How far will the magic seeds of science transform medicine?
Neha Panda, Guildford High School for Girls, Mapping and Phenotype Refinement of SweetP! - A Mouse Model with Type II Diabetes
Rishil Patel, Merchant Taylors' School, To investigate the effects of de-endothelializing aortic valves on their propensity to calcify
Tanvi Paul, Chapter Business and Enterprise College, The Emergency Pod
Louise Payne, Cams Hill School, Space Confidential
Megan Peeks, Danesfield Church of England School, Which Natural Dye is the most Durable?
Helen Peregrine, Dept of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, Grading optic disc and retinal photographs: how reliable are the current software programs?
Alyx Petre, Cockermouth School, Decommissioning Cell G1
Caroline Poulter, Ralph Thoresby School, Should very premature babies be kept alive?
Aarthi Ravishankar, Withington Girls' School, Ageing Fractures in Babies' Bones
Amy Redston, GlaxoSmithKline, Investigation to Synthesise an Impurity of an Anti-depressive Drug
Rhiannon Round, Torquay Girls' Grammar School, Extrusion Die Investigation
Amber Sacco, Altrincham Girls Grammar School, Architecture inspired furniture
David Saddington, Blakeston Community Sports College, Footprints to Nature
Nanditha Sathyanarayana, King Henry VIII Senior School, Development of a system for measuring evaporative water loss from the surface of the skin
Sandeep Sehmi, Langley Grammar School, Characterising Surfactants using Chromatography
Haadi Shalabi, Nottingham High School, Stop the Infection
Yasmin Sidiki, The Glasgow Academy, Ethanol Rockets
Virginia Simenda, Fearnhill School, Fridge / Freezer Alarm
Mathew Smith, Liverpool John Moores University, Synthesis of New Anticancer and Antimalarial Drugs Using Focused Microwaves
Graeme Sneddon, Hutchesons’ Grammar, Genetic Engineering of the Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Gene and its Importance in New Anti-Malarial Drug Development
Hannah Stuart, The King's School Canterbury, Original research into a cancer-linked cell signaling pathway
Robert Tann, Sibford School, Studying effect of isolation on pollination success of Primula veris
Jenny Tu, Childwall School Liverpool, Nutrients Down the Mersey
Ettie Unwin, Sir William Perkins's School, Oxford Flood Risk Management Strategy - Wolvercote
Sophie Wakeford, Thomas Hardye, Wind Power Generation
Courtney Williams, University of Sheffield, Listening For Ghost Particles: The Acoustic Cosmic Ray Neutrino Experiment
Ben Witz, Beeslack Community High School, The Sound Ring of Good Wood
Samuel Wood, Devonport High School for Boys, F1 in Schools Technology Challenge
Haixi Yan, The Glasgow Academy, A new method for analysis of protein binding to DNA
Date Published: May 23, 2011