{"id":544,"date":"2013-05-26T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/?page_id=544"},"modified":"2020-05-07T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T08:14:34","slug":"2013-our-75th-anniversary-project-celebrating-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/highlights-from-the-past\/2013-our-75th-anniversary-project-celebrating-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 75th Anniversary Project “Celebrating Science”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”611″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]With only one in five girls opting for the whole range of science subjects, <\/span><\/span><\/span>SI Bournemouth<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span> issued a challenge, as part of the celebrations of the club\u2019s 75<\/span><\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span> Anniversary this year, to budding women scientists which could help people living in the poorest parts of the world.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The STEM based challenge (<\/span><\/span><\/span>S<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>cience, <\/span><\/span><\/span>T<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>echnology, <\/span><\/span><\/span>E<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>ngineering, <\/span><\/span><\/span>M<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>athematics), issued in the autumn of 2012 to teams of girls in Years 9 and 10 at local schools, <\/span><\/span><\/span>was to design, build and cost a project to help people in the poorest parts of our world. It had to be sustainable, fit for purpose and cost effective in a world where 884 million people lack access to clean water, nearly three and a half million people die each year from water, sanitation and hygiene related causes and every 20 seconds a child dies from a water related illness. An estimated 925 million people are hungry while the world produces enough food to feed everyone.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of the projects submitted by four teams three focused on clean water and the fourth on capturing snake venom for medical purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Five judges drawn from local companies and organizations – <\/span><\/span><\/span>Bournemouth Borough Council, Fonix, Procter and Gamble and Sembcorp Bournemouth Water<\/span><\/span><\/span> \u2013 selected the winning projects, one in each year group, on 12<\/span><\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span> March 2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The winners of the \u201cCelebrating Science Challenge\u201d were: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n