In the secondary category, there were two projects shortlisted from Liverpool Life Sciences UTC and The Studio School, one project from Year 10, named Bio Clamp and the other was from Ignite, called Sea Sparkles. These students were able to attend in person and got to explain their project in further detail to the conference attendees. Of these entries, Bio Clamp was selected as the winner for the Secondary Category. We are all very impressed with Shaza for her work on this project and can’t wait to see where she takes it next.

We would also like to congratulate Saskia and Adina for their outstanding achievement as runners-up.

In addition to this, we had four projects from across the Northern Schools Trust shortlisted as finalists for the Innovation Award. In the primary category, both Roscoe (Recycling Robby) and Four Oaks (Dissolving Dog Poo Spray) had entries where their posters were displayed at the conference. Unfortunately, as both of these were Year 6 entries, they were unable to attend in person due to the timing of their SAT exam; despite this, they did have videos that could be played to explain their project to the attendees judging.  While neither of these projects won in their category, they were wonderful posters that really helped to show the students' ideas, and we are very proud of them.