Science fair trip for Chch pupil

Press, 7 October 1987, Page 28

Science fair trip for Chch pupil

A Hillmorton High School fourth-former, Antony Bedggood, will represent New Zealand at the annual San Diego science fair next April. He has won the trip by taking second prize in the I.C.L New Zealand Science Fair in Wellington last week. Antony, aged 15, said that he was “pretty happy” at winning the San Diego trip, traditionally awarded to the first-prize winner of the national fair. The first-prize winner, Nathalie Morris, aged 13, of Palmerston North Girls’ High School, will instead go to a fair in Singapore, her travel sponsored jointly by the D.S.I.R. and the Science Teachers’ Association. Her exhibit, “Hear and There,” was based on . an experiment to determine

how well a person could locate the source of sounds, and at what pitch. Jonathan Guy, aged 16, of Tindale Park Christian School in Auckland, will also go to Singapore after winning a special Technical Award. His exhibit was “A Robot for Karl,” a sophisticated robot built as a learning device for an intellectually handicapped boy. Antony Bedggood's exhibit, "Natural Bacteriocides," had won the overall first prize at the Can-terbury-Westland schools science fair in June. It is based on experiments he made to test the ability of various plant extracts to kill or inhibit two common types of bacteria. Some, he found, were more effective than two commercially available antiseptics.