SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH INFORMATION

Perth Modern School encourages students to participate in the Science Talent Search.

This website contains all the information: Science Talent Search (stawa.net). 

Entries are due to Mrs Helen Lydon by Monday, 12 August, so there is plenty of time to plan and carry out ideas. If there is enough interest, Mrs Lydon will advertise another meeting early next term. Remember - this is designed to be a STUDENT- LED project, done in the student's own time; wth it being the student's ideas and motivation, not the teacher's! And YES, there are cash prizes for winning and placed entries. 

For now, students are to consider the THREE ways to participate, and start thinking of ideas (some starter ideas are on the website):
1) INVESTIGATION*: plan and conduct an original investigation, and produce a three-minute video to present and explain your findings
2) COMMUNICATION: create a 60 second video to explain a difficult or intriguing science topic. Or use a series of photographs to do the same.
3) ENGINEERING: plan and create a prototype to solve a problem.

* Students are required to run any investigation ideas past either Mrs Lydon or their Science teacher to check safety and feasibility. Students must fill in the required Risk Assessment form BEFORE starting (under Resources on the STS website).