2025 Scientific Inquiry Prize Winners
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*Please note this list is not indicative of place winners, entries have been listed in alphabetical order. Prize winners will find out the outcome of their entry at the Presentation Ceremony.
Prize Winners
- R-2 Prize Winners
- 3-4 Prize Winners
- 5-6 Prize Winners
- 7-8 Prize Winners
- 9-10 Prize Winners
- 11-12 Prize Winners
Highly Commended
Click on 'more information' to view written reports for each project.
R-2 Prize Winners
Finn Gelsthorpe
Prince Alfred College
Project: Urban Heat Maps in Adelaide
Alexander Praino
Pembroke School
Project: Does playing piano improve fine motor control?
Darcy Robson
Concordia College - St Peters Campus
Project: Rock Tumbling
3-4 Prize Winners
Daniel Boucher
St Peter's Woodlands Grammar School
Project: You Eye What You Eat
Amir Chaloob
St Peter's Woodlands Grammar School
Project: Maximising Micronutrients
Arthur Kerrigan
Prince Alfred College
Project: Improving My Shoebox Projector
Hannah Zeng
St Ignatius College - Junior School
Project: How plants help with soil and water conservation
5-6 Prize Winners
Quinn Hansen
Stirling East Primary School
Project: Do younger people have more refined and accurate taste buds when sensing sweetness levels than older people?
Audrey Lee
Stirling East Primary School
Project: Can sound be found to make plants grow more quickly and healthier?
Daniel Maddern
Pulteney Grammar School
Project: Better booster makes better bread: the effects of flour power on your baked sourdough loaf
7-8 Prize Winners
Olivia Bulloch
Mercedes College
Project: Investigating the Impact of Electromagnetic Fields on Bean Germination, Plant Height, Root Length and Plant Health
Kean Landman
Portside Christian College
Project: The effects of not consuming added sugar or sweetener
Diya Rose
Norwood International High School
Project: Exploring the Behaviour of Different Laser Light Colours on Various Materials and Liquids
9-10 Prize Winners
Shaya Ismail, Ada Qian
Wilderness School
Project: Projectile Motion of a Drone's Payload: Velocity's Impact on Range Accuracy with Air Resistance
Mahir Monsur
Glenunga International High School
Project: Metal-Air Batteries: Anionic Electrochemistries of the Electrolyte
11-12 Prize Winners
Maike Enderling
Glenunga International High School
Project: Macroalgae as Bioremediators: Photosynthesis and Nitrogen Absorption of South Australian Macroalgae
Shanza Ismail
Wilderness School
Project: Can heartbeat pulses be used to estimate blood pressure?
Joshua Kirsten, Alexander Lee
Scotch College - Senior
Project: Banana Cheese
2025 Scientific Inquiry Highly Commended
R-2 Highly Commended
Frankie Egan, Van Scholz
Unley Primary School
Project: Operation: Weak foot mastery
Piper Lashmar
Kangaroo Island Community Education
Project: The Blu Tack Test
3-4 Highly Commended
Abhyuday Ramchuritter, Atharv Dhadook
Vale Park Primary School
Project: Ice Age - Race to Melt: What's Really Heating Our Planet?
5-6 Highly Commended
Jaiyen Landers
Prince Alfred College
Project: Is the Earth flat or round and how big is it?
9-10 Highly Commended
Benita Wu
Seymour College
Project: Investigating the Dual Role of Curcumin as both an antioxidant and a pro-oxidant - A Study of Saccharomyces cerevisiae growth under oxidative stress