{"id":182,"date":"2013-03-26T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-03-26T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T15:45:16","slug":"celebrating-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/2013\/03\/26\/celebrating-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Science and 75 years of SI Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WHERE ARE THE GIRLS?<\/strong><\/p>\n

With only one in five girls opting for the whole range of science subjects, SI Bournemouth<\/strong> has issued a challenge, as part of the celebrations of the club\u2019s 75th<\/sup> Anniversary this year, \u00a0to budding women scientists which could help people living in the poorest parts of the world.<\/p>\n

The STEM based challenge (S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, M<\/strong>athematics), issued last autumn to teams of girls in Years 9 and 10 at local schools, was to design, build and cost a project to help people in the poorest parts of our world.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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

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

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