• About Science in School
  • About EIROforum
  • Submit an article
Science in School
Science in School
  • Understand
    • Recent research and science topics
      • Astronomy / space
      • Biology
      • Chemistry
      • Earth science
      • Engineering
      • General science
      • Health
      • History
      • Mathematics
      • Physics
      • News from the EIROs
      • Science and society
  • Inspire
    • People, events and resources
      • Advertorials
      • Career focus
      • Competitions and events
      • Education focus
      • Resource reviews
      • Science and society
      • Science miscellany
      • Scientist profiles
      • Teacher profiles
  • Teach
    • Activities and projects
      • Astronomy / space
      • Biology
      • Chemistry
      • Earth science
      • Engineering
      • General science
      • Health
      • History
      • Mathematics
      • Physics
      • Science and society
  • Archive
  • Login
  • Contact
Issue 40
 -  09/06/2017

Student competition: winners announced

Hannah Voak

We are pleased to announce the winners of the student writing competition: the search for the strangest species on Earth. 

 

Thank you to all the teachers who encouraged their students to enter the Science in School student competition: the search for the strangest species on Earth. We had more than 80 fantastic submissions and after much consideration by the six judges, we are pleased to announce the winners and runners-up – congratulations! Each of the three winning entries will be published in the winter issue of Science in School. 

Please pass on our thanks and congratulations to all of your students who participated – we were very impressed by the high standard of the entries, especially since the majority of students were not writing in their native language.    


Image courtesy of Kalle Gustafsson; image source: Flickr 

Winning entries

Update: the original winner of the age 11–15 category of the Science in School writing competition neglected to fulfil all of the entry requirements, and the winning entry is therefore awarded to Ana Aragón, Sara Hidalgo and Xavi Valeri. 

Age category

Author

Entry title

Age at time of entry

Country

4–10

Hayden Cookson

Naked mole rat - Heterocephalus glaber

7

United Kingdom

11–15

Ana Aragón, Sara Hidalgo & Xavi Valeri

Turritopsis nutricula

13

Spain

16+

Aleksandra Markowska & Halina Ravensdale

Hydra vulgaris

17

Poland

Runners-up

Age category

Author

Entry title

Age at time of entry

Country

4–10

Francesca Maslowicz

The dumbo octopus

7

United Kingdom

16+ 

Matylda Kubacz

 

Efstathios Konstantakopoulos,
Dimitrios Pefanis & Vasiliki Tsimpouki  

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

 

Radioautotrophic fungi: Cladosporium sphaerospermum

17

 

17

Poland

 

Greece

 

Our thanks go to the judging panel:  

  • Agnes Szmolenszky, head of the European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS)
  • Caroline Hadley, co-founder of INLEXIO
  • Joseph Piergrossi, press officer at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (European XFEL)
  • Sandra Bendiscioli, programme officer at the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) science policy programme 
  • Steven Goldfarb, physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN
  • Yannick Lacaze, public outreach officer at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) 
 

CC-BY
  • Log in or register to post comments
Log in to post a comment

Issues

  • Current issue
  • Archive

Tools

  • Print
  • Share

Related articles

  • Ready, set, infect!
  • Melts in your viscometer, not in your hand
  • Can something accelerate upwards while falling down?
  • Sharp eyes: how well can we really see?
  • Chembot: chemistry with robots

Login / My account

Create new account
Forgot password


Contact us

Please contact us via our email address editor@scienceinschool.org.

  • More contact details

Get involved

  • Submit an article
  • Review articles
  • Translate articles

Support Science in School


EIROforum members:
CERN European Molecular Biology Laboratory European Space Agency European Southern Observatory
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility EUROfusion European XFEL Institut Laue-Langevin


EIROforum
Published and funded by EIROforum


  • About Science in School
  • About EIROforum
  • Imprint
  • Copyright
  • Safety note
  • Disclaimer
  • Archive
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
ISSN 1818-0361

CERN
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
European Space Agency
European Southern Observatory
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
EUROfusion
European XFEL
Institut Laue-Langevin
EIROforum

Published and funded by EIROforum
  • About Science in School
  • About EIROforum
  • Imprint
  • Copyright
  • Safety note
  • Disclaimer
  • Archive
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
ISSN 1818-0361