Technology Enhances the Arts
Over 5% of the world's population - or 430 million people - require rehabilitation to address their disabling hearing loss. At a personal level, my younger brother has severe difficulties wi…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
My aging and fiercely independent grandfather lives on a farm. Age has reduced his strength, resulting in the removal of wheel studs from machinery to become an increasingly frustrating chal…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
This project began as a chance discussion with peers regarding incorrect retrospective GCSE subject choices which restricted A-level options and ultimately career opportunities. A survey of…
Chemistry
Microbeads are widely used plastics which offer valuable properties that aid cosmetic products for exfoliation and scrubbing. Despite their size, they are currently having serious detrimenta…
Animal Sciences
Bats have immense ecological benefits: consuming insects, pollinating plants, and preventing diseases spreading. Conservation work is hampered by high costs and difficult methods, consequent…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
To determine the antimicrobial potential of tree bark extracts against two gram- negative bacteria (Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas fluorescens) and one gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus sub…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
Outbreaks of Zika and Malaria in third world countries have proven how borderless our world has become. Scientists are paramount in combatting these global challenges. The reality exists tha…
Third Award
Multiple Sclerosis is a progressive illness that affects the brain and spinal cord. 84% of people who have it suffer from a 'Clenched Fist'. My father has Multiple Sclerosis and I have witne…
Second Award
‘Bleeding Canker’ is a disease of Horse Chestnut trees (Aesculus hippocastanum) identified throughout North-West Europe since 2002. The infection, first identified in Ireland in 2011, causes…
Energy: Chemical
Fourth Award
A great deal of time is wasted trying to locate misplaced keys. This can ruin your day, leave you late for work or school, stretch relationships, increase the blood pressure and can result i…