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Previous Projects
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Santa Maria College
2013
Project
X-ray Sudoku: Question of Public Health Meets Sudoku
Participants
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Mater Christi College
2013
Project
Biomedical Imaging at Monash
Participants
EmilyPeele, Jessica McFarlane, Rachel David
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Charles La Trobe College
2013
Project
Green Fluorescent Protein Project
Participants
Mariam,Sara, Hoda,Aisha, Kiraand Alana
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Star of the Sea College
2013
Project
Nano-Diamond Quantum Sensors in Living Cells Project 24th-28th June, 2013
Participants
Charlotte Bartl, Monica Kerin, Bridie Mannion, Emilia Mosiejewski, Natasha Pace, Phoebe Thompson and Georgia Wiley
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Santa Maria College
2013
Project
Scorpion Project 24th-28th June, 2013
Participants
Emily, Sara, Mikayla, Giulia, Kamille and Tiana
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Santa Maria College
2012
Project
Media
Participants
Maggie, Jasmine, Jadda, Emi
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Santa Maria College
2012
Project
Mitochondrial Mighty Power House
Participants
Emerald Cornwall-Jones, Hong Le-Nguyen, Sia Melekiola, Alison Graham and Tess Pearson
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Santa Maria College
2012
Project
Understanding Climate Change
Participants
Kanishka Kukreja, Shayla Nguyen, Lisa Nguyen, Minh Dao, Cindy Ho, Lauren Di Giambattista and Michaela Harkin
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Santa Maria College
2012
Project
Understanding the Malaria Parasite
Participants
Vivian Bui, Jessica Castro, Phuong Lam, Sylvia Xiao, Mai Kieu and Catherine Zhang
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Santa Maria College
2012
Project
Sudoku the Maths of Biology
Participants
Cindy N, Ngoc N, Michelle L, Natalie L, Alexia S, Georgia R
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Santa Maria College
2012
Project
The Bionic Man or Woman
Participants
Sam Cantrill, Amber Belbasis and Daniella Ciccone
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Our Lady of Mercy College
2012
Project
To Dye For
Participants
Jordan Daley, Sandra Chen, Megan Cheung, Charlotte Demers, Sanjana Alex and Celine Pierre
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Santa Maria College
2011
Project
Deaf-initely a Challenge
Participants
Elise McMahon, Emily Jong, Hannah Lopez, Laura McMahon, Melisa Mahmut, Akshita Sharma, Isabel Villafuerte
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Mercy College
2011
Project
To Dye For
Participants
Mary Noel, Natasha Ressia, Elizabeth Gellel, Sarah-Rose Tooke, Diane Pitropakis, Sarah Badro
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Santa Maria College
2011
Project
CSIRO & Synchrotron project
Participants
Rachael Siman, Carmelaine Ranoa, Marianthi Belbasis, Roanne Pancho, Gezelle Dali, Katia Mercuri, Trang Vo,
Sophia Ly, Joanne Zhang, Megan Salvador and Jessica Lu
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Santa Maria College
2011
Project
The Making of the Making of The Growing Tall Poppies film
Participants
Geraldine Docherty, Renee Heraud, Ailan Pham
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Santa Maria College
2011
Project
The History of a Changing Climate
Participants
Lidia Cavalier, Nadine Khalil
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Santa Maria College
2011
Project
Mathematics and Physics meets Popular Culture
Participants
Akshita Sharma, Anju Marasingha, Mary Le, Lina Tran, Michelle Le, Cartia Gervasoni, Nancy Do
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Santa Maria College
2011
Project
A Curious Case of Climate Change
Participants
Angela Zhu, Janine Hardy, Helen Tran, Jessie Cheriyan, Niati Sharma, Isabel Villafuerte, Elise McMahon
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Star of the Sea College
2011
Project
A Whole lot of Holograms
Participants
Georgia Riordan, Tess Della Piana, Isabelle Lam, Claudia Ohlert, Olivia Perazza, Jess Tang-Lacy
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St Bernard's College
2010
Project
Mathematics and Physics meeting Popular Culture
Participants
Will Fleming, Adrian Marcato, Xavier Butcher, Xavier de Bruyn, Jordan LoPresti, Ivan Galic
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St. Catherine's School
2010
Project
Ultra-Violet (UV) Semiconductors and Extreme Ultra-Violet (XUV) Ultrafast Lasers
Participants
Christopher Hall , Khuong Dinh
Brief
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Euroa Secondary College
Project
2010
I can see a Rainbow
Participants
Alisoun Townsend, Ash Donnison, James Dean, Keely Hausler, Laura Whitney, Tyson Wicks
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Star of the Sea College
2010
Project
Figures in the Dark
Participants
Georgia O'Connor, Grace Whitbread-Phee, Megan Pool, Issie McBeth Jephcott, Lucy McNeill, Alessia Tamborriello
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Santa Maria College
2010
Project
What is all the wining about/Drunken Projector
Participants
My Chau Tran, Nhung Tran, Maria Wu, Nicole Do, Van Le, Kai Yang
Brief
During the week at the 'Short Wavelength Laser Program' group of the CXS you will have the opportunity to undertake two investigations.
In one investigation you will be able to study the degradation of wine under different light conditions.
In another investigation you are invited to dismantle a data projector from which you will extract a light source that is to be fitted to a fluorescence microscope. The 'anatomy' of a microscope will also be investigated.
In both of these investigations many questions will arise to investigate and you are encouraged to follow areas of interest with your scientist mentors.
Once the data is collected you will write an article either directed to New Scientist or the University of Melbourne Newspaper (or another forum of your choice). The article will report your findings, and needs to explain the importance and relevance to the community of your studies. Underpinning your projects is the important way that science is an integrated process of many traditional disciplines that addresses questions and issues that are relevant and important to society.
You are invited and encouraged to propose further investigations that future groups of students or in fact the scientists can undertake.
You will collectively present your week's investigation to the group of scientists and teachers and parents at the end of the week.
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Santa Maria College
2010
Project
What is all the wining about Part 2 - Looking at Red Wine
Participants
Van Le, Wendy To, Kai Yang, Nhung Tran, Tess Kirkinis, Anne Aggarwal, My-Chau Tran, Ramona Sarkis, Yvonne Liu
Brief
The world community is very aware of the importance of conserving energy and to using less energy to minimise the impact of global warming. Governments and businesses are looking for ways of reducing energy consumption to help the environment and to increase efficiency. The wine producing industry is large in Australia. Wine bottles are also made of coloured glass, which is more difficult and expensive to recycle than clear glass. Wine bottles are made of thick glass and so are heavy compared to many other bottles and so transport costs are high due to the weight. Moving to lighter weight bottles could impact wine! Determining which wavelengths of light cause white wine to go off is important because by knowing this we can prevent this? How? Other questions as scientists that we would ask are: Is wine quality affected by thinner glass bottles? How is red wine affected by light compared to white wine? These properties are important for the preservation and shelf-life of wine if wine industries wish to bottle their wine in light weighted bottles.
Questions to be answered for discussion:
1. Where are wine bottles subjected to light exposure?
2. What other variables may affect the quality of wine?
3. What "form of light" do you know affect humans in a harmful way?
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Santa Maria College
2009
Project
Jurassic Park - In Miniature
Participants
Wendy To, Kate Latkoska, Tess Kirkinis, Breana Casuillo, Cindy Tuyet-Thao Tran, Yvonne Liu
Brief
Recently images of fossil animals in amber have been taken using the synchrotron, but it is very expensive and only a few specimens have been investigated.
The project for you to undertake at the CXS group at the Latrobe University Centre for Materials and Surface Science is to use an X-ray machine ……… that is inexpensive to use and easily accessible (compared to the synchrotron) to take images of amber containing insects. To date it is not known whether it is possible to get information about the fossils using this technique.
Once the data is collected you will write an article either directed to New Scientist or the LaTrobe University Bulletin (or another forum of your choice). The article will report your findings and needs to explain the importance and relevance to the community to study investigate science in an integrated way.
You will collectively present your week’s investigation to the group of scientists and teachers at the end of the week.
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St Catherine’s School
2009
Project
Finding a Cure for Malaria - Physicists and Biologists Working Together
Participants
Emma Clark, Luciana Darling, Georgina Edwards, Amelia Hamer, Sharon Lee, Natalie Ng
Brief
Create a media article about the work of the CXS and about its aims:
- To see the un-seeable membrane proteins and
- To image the fine structures in the malaria parasite
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Padua College
2009
Project
Carotenoids with Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Participants
Mitch Chasemore, Christy Dimitrakas, Alasdair McDougal, Juliette Millili, Andrew Taylor, Lachlan Theobold, Holly Whitfield
Brief
You are to write a media article or a presentation to parliament about the work of the physics and laser laboratories at Swinburne University of Technology, to explain how the study of light responsive molecules can be beneficial and important to understanding the process of photosynthesis. Furthermore the document should include how understanding the nature of the interactions between light and matter can help in developing future energy solutions.
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