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2023 Winner & Runners Up

• Jo Chandler (Runner Up) - Buried treasure
• Amalyah Hart (Runner Up) - Model or Monster

2022 Winner & Runners Up

• Lauren Fuge (Winner) - Time travel and tipping points
• Olivia Willis (Runner Up) - Spillover in suburbia
  
• Helen Sullivan (Runner Up) - A Syrian seed bank's fight to survive

2021 Winner & Runners Up

• Ceridwen Dovey (Winner) - Everlasting free-fall
• Jo Chandler (Runner Up) -  The COVID-climate collision
  
• Jackson Ryan (Runner Up) - To the Dragon Palace and back

2020 Winner & Runners Up

• Ceridwen Dovey (Winner) - True Grit
• Konrad Marshall (Runner Up) -  Jeepers creepers
  
• Ricky French (Runner Up) - Case of the missing frogs

2019 Winner & Runners Up

• Melissa Fyfe (Winner) - Getting cliterate
  
• Cameron Muir (Runner Up) -  Ghost species and shadow places
  
• Jackson Ryan (Runner Up) - How CRISPR could save six billion chickens from the meat grinder

2018 Winner & Runners Up

• Dr Andrew Leigh MP (Winner) - From bloodletting to placebo surgery
  
• Jo Chandler (Runner Up) -  Amid fear and guns, polio finds a refuge
  
• Margaret Wertheim (Runner Up) - Radical Dimensions

2017 Winner & Runners Up

• Dr Alice Gorman (Winner) - Trace fossils: the silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium 
  
• Jo Chandler (Runner Up) - Grave Barrier Reef
  
• Elmo Keep (Runner Up) - The Pyramid at the end of the world

2016 Winner & Runners Up

• Ashley Hay (Winner) - The Forest at the Edge of Time
  
• Susan Double (Runner Up) - Beautiful contrivances
  
• Fiona McMillan (Runner Up) - Lucy’s lullaby: Song for the ages

2015 Winner & Runners Up

• Christine Kenneally (Winner) - The past may not make you feel any better
  
• Idan Ben-Barak (Runner Up) - Why aren't we dead yet?
  
• Trent Dalton  (Runner Up) - Beating the odds

2014 Winner & Runners Up

• Jo Chandler (Winner) - TB and me: A medical souvenir
  
• Frank Bowden(Runner Up) - Eleven grams of trouble
  
• Peter Meredith(Runner Up) - Weathering the storm

2013 Winner & Runners Up

• Professor Fred Watson(Winner) - Here come the ubernerds: Planets, Pluto and Prague
  
• Professor Chris Turney(Runner Up) - Martyrs to Gondwanaland: The cost of scientific exploration 
  
• Gina Perry(Runner Up) - Beyond the shock machine

2012 Winner & Runners Up

• Jo Chandler (Winner) -  Storm front
  
• Ashley Hay (Runner Up) - The Aussie Mozzie Posse
  
• Peter McAllister (Runner Up) - for The Evolution of the Inadequate Modern Male
  

2023 Student Winner & Runners Up

• Elsie Paton, Year 9 Kambala School, NSW (Winner) - Two paths to AI: The choice of humanity
• Daniel Kim, Year 10 The Scots College, NSW (Runner Up) - The science of AI
• Zavier Argent, Year 8 Leeming Senior High School, WA (Runner Up) - AI in Sports Science

20232 Student Winner & Runners Up

• Oliva Campbell, Year 9 Presbyterian Ladies' Collge, VIC (Winner) - Viral science
  
• Kaya Kimla, Year 7 Kirrawee High School, NSW (Runner Up) - The two-way science
• Jasmin Wu, Year 10 St George Girls High School, NSW (Runner Up) - On certainty

2021 Student Winner & Runners Up

• Emilia Danne, Year 8 St John Bosco College, NSW (Winner) - The dark side of blue light
  
• Stephanie Chew, Year 8 Presbyterian Ladies' College, NSW (Runner Up) - How does the violin saw its tooth?
• Elora Guirguis, Year 10 Mater Dei Catholic College, NSW (Runner Up) - Ultrasound, seeing with sound

2020 Student Winner & Runners Up

• Elena Canty, Year 9 Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School, VIC (Winner) - Cultured Meat The future of food?
  
• Philippe Mouawad, Year 7 Georges River Grammar School, NSW (Runner Up) - Little cells, big possibilities
  
• Jeremy Simonetto, Year 8 St Patrick’s College, NSW (Runner Up) - iPS Cells – the stem of the future

2019 Student Winner & Runners Up

• Arwyn Stone, Year 9 Abbotsleigh, NSW (Winner) - Not-so-smart technology: The science (or lack there of) behind period and fertility trackers
  
• William Flintoft, Year 10 Melbourne Grammar School, VIC (Runner Up) - errare humanum est
  
• Phoebe Adam, Year 8 Presbyterian Ladies College Croydon, NSW (Runner Up) - Driverless Cars: Not So Smart Technology

2018 Student Winner & Runners Up

• Preethika Mathan, Year 7 Santa Sabina College (Winner) -  I-Care
  
• Coco Dwyer and Ruby Mumford, Year 10 Star of the Sea College (Runner Up) - Technology is not only all around us, it’s inside us
  
• Sienna Ters, Year 8 Santa Sabina College (Runner Up) - Celebrating 40 years of MRI technology, and why we need it more than ever

2017 Student Winner & Runners Up

• Sam Jones, Year 7 Kedron State High School (Winner) -  It’s what’s on the inside that counts
  
• Ebony Wallin, Year 9 Dalyellup College (Runner Up) -  The very hungry caterpillars
  
• Carol Ge, Year 9 Radford College (Runner Up) -  The fate of the Great Barrier Reef

2016 Student Winner & Runners Up

• Marissa Petrakis, Year 10 Meriden School (Winner) - From here to the stars: discovering supernovae
  
• Gemma Macauley-Black, Year 8 Frensham (Runner Up) - Can you hear me?
  
• Chelsy Teng, Year 9 James Ruse Agricultural High School (Runner Up) - An innovative instrument: the scanning tunnelling microscope

2015 Inaugural Student Winner & Runners Up

• Jessica Kitchen - (Winner) - A pendulum conundrum
  
• Holly Reid (Runner Up) - Lighting up the universe: what a flame test reveals
  
• Priya Soni (Runner Up) - X-rays - superpowers brought to life