The Queensland Science Contest is an annual event organised by the Science Teachers Association of Queensland (STAQ). The contest is open to all Queensland students from pre-school to Year 12 and is judged by representatives from scientific and educational organisations across seven age divisions and five categories.
Bursary Awards are provided by a range of organisations to recognise student work in specific disciplines or topics. The organisations determine the amount of their award and the criteria against which it is judged.
Once again, our students have done extremely well in the 69th Queensland Science Contest, winning a total of $1305 in prize money.
Congratulations to these students:
| Award | Name | Topic |
| 1st Maths Investigations | Elizabeth Lee | Optimising Solar Panel Layout |
| 2nd Science Investigations | Tayla Bryer | 12 Minute workout on VO2 |
| 3rd Science Investigations | Dylan McSween | Baculosomes and antibiotics |
| 3rd Science Investigations | Nya
Piamrojanaphat | Capsaicin on yeast cell death |
| HC Science Investigations | Alyssa Deanoz | Effects of Micro-Plastic on Biofilms |
| 3rd Communicating Science | Genevieve Chakuthip | Ocean Acidification on Staghorn Coral |
| 3rd Communicating Science | Daniel Kotcharian | Alien Species |
| 3rd Communicating Science | Georgina Crowther | Homologous Structures Evolution |
| HC Communicating Science | Joey Cliffe | Congenital Heart-Disease through Natural Selection |
| Society for Petroleum Engineers | Elizabeth Lee
| Optimising Solar Panel Layout |
| RACI Bursary | Thien Tran | Adsorption of anionic azo dyes |
| ASBMB Bursary | Anze Maric | Venom to prevent platelet clotting |
| Soil Bursary | Zhuominna Ma | Biopolymers in Soil Stabilization |
You can also view the winners on the Queensland Science Contest page of the STAQ website by clicking here.
Our winning student projects have been entered in the Australian Science and Engineering Fair (AUSSEF). This competition, with a two-staged national judging process, will select the AUSSEF team who will win an all-expenses-paid-trip to compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2023, in Dallas, Texas from May 13-19, 2023.
Anir Lal
HOD Science