SCIENCE

Year 9 Erudition Expo

On Friday 1 December at the Year 9 Awards Assembly, the winners of the Year 9 Science Erudition 2023 were announced.

Over 2 days in November, students presented their final posters.  The best of each class also presented a TED talk on their investigations to Year 8 and 9 students as well as expert Scientists from our community.  

Below are 'Honorable Mentions' to some of our poster finalists.

Wednesday Posters Finalists

• Kasey and Ruby (9G) - Popping Popcorn Poster
• Josh, Joe and Bodie (9G) - Basketball Drop Experiment
• Jasper, Joel and John (9A) - Floating Static Bands 
• Hunter, Lachlan and Xavier (9ADPC) - Does Music Affect Athlete performance

Wednesday Posters Competition - WINNERS

• Andrew, Ewan and Xavier (9C) - How does tyre pressure affect a rider’s performance?

Thursday Posters Finalists

• Ashlee (9H) - Do Personalities affect bias towards positivity and negativity
• Nykeeta Taylor, Jayli Kift-Rochow, Charlotte Ammerlaan (9B) - Salt vs Water

Thursday Poster Competition - WINNERS

• Cal and Dominic (9D) for their poster

Congratulations and well done to all TED talkers on being picked to represent your class. All of the TED Talks were amazing!

The winners of the TED Talk on Wednesday as voted by peers, teachers and expert scientists are;

• Peter, Nau-Tuang and Tim (9A) for their presentation on Cursed Bread

Winner of the TED talk on Thursday:

• Thilo (9E) for her presentation on Taste Testing

Congratulations and well done to all of our winners!

Sara Schulz

Head of Science