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Science & Technology Fayre
Dalziel High School are launching the first major Science Fayre to take place in a Secondary School in Scotland. Approximately 180 S1 pupils (12 year old) will participate. The Science & Technology Fayre allows pupils to research areas of Science & Technology which they find interesting. The...
Theme
The Theme of the 2008 Science & Technology Fayre is for pupils to select a key advancement in Science and research the topic and build / devise a model or experiment. “ What major contribution has mankind made to the Universe? ” The pupils have selected interesting topics to investig...
Aims of the Fayre
Dalziel High School believe that by empowering the S1 pupils to participate in the Fayre. The aims of the Fayre are: • To get pupils enthused about Science & Technology. • To allow all pupils to access learning irrespective of academic achievement. • To allow pupils to be cr...
When?
Come along and see for yourself on Tuesday 10th of June at Dalziel High School, Between 6.30 and 8.30pm.
Contact Us
Dalziel High School Crawford Street Motherwell Scotland ML1 3AG Phone: 01698 328628 Fax: 01698 328631 E-mail: jmonaghan@dalziel.n-lanark.sch.uk
The final of Dalziel High Schools first annual Science and Technology Fayre was hosted on Wednesday the 11th of June. The final comprised of 15 groups of first year pupils trying to win the coveted Rolls Royce award and a host of prizes from local sponsors. Each group had to build a model, or devise and experiment, to demonstrate an aspect of science that interests them, make a stall to display their research and finally present their project to a panel of judges from to the universities and industry. The projects ranged from ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Eco-fuels’, to ‘Forensics’ and ‘The Electric Car’.
The event was opened by Real Radio DJ Steve McKenna, and was a huge success. The results are as follows:
1st Prize - Biomass Generator
Rijul Sethi, David McCann
2nd Prize - Global Warming & its Effects on the Arctic
Kirstie Webb, Rachel Bennett, Ria Kenyon, Elidih McIlwraith
3rd Prize - Volcanoes
Kara Wright, Holly Fegan, Gemma Whitson Physics Prize - Satellite Tracking Devices – GPS (Donated by Strathclyde University Physics Department)
Lucie Wemyss, Megan Lowe, Lara Bandoni Chemistry Prize - Medicine – How does it work? (Donated by Glasgow University Chemistry Department)
Jordan Robertson, John Forsyth, Stuart Brown, Natasha Clarke, Rebecca Tollan Endeavour Prize - Big Bang
William Prentice, Matthew Lappin, Steven Blackwood, Declan Boyle
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Science Fayre 1st Round Judging