Innovation key to students’ top tech projects
Science and technology were celebrated in Morrinsville last week by school students around the district.
The Ingham East Waikato Science and Technology Fair was held at the Morrinsville College hall, with Matamata Intermediate student Logan Crispe taking top honours for both the Best in Fair and Best Technology awards and Morrinsville College student Jordan Rogers winning Best Science Exhibit.
Logan blew judges away with his project www.zerohouseholdwaste.com, where he designed an app to help people minimise household waste.
For her project, Jordan sprayed different amounts of ProGibb on maize to see if it affected height, growth rates and yield.
One hundred and seven projects were entered and chief judge Jason Morgan said the calibre of entries gets better every year and science and technology were fast becoming a viable Jason Morgan
career option.
‘‘How awesome is it that we could have the inventor of the next Pokemon game sitting here among us,’’ he said.
‘‘The amount of detail that was displayed was overwhelming and you should all be very proud of yourselves.’’
A number of other prizes were also presented including gold, silver and bronze awards, a Maori Technology Award, judge’s commendations and for the first time this year photography which were won by Morrinsville College student Arlo Birss and Stanley Avenue School student Summa Roskam.
‘‘How awesome is it that we could have the inventor of the next Pokemon game sitting here among us.’’