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CREST Awards: Silver
Crest Silver Awards stretch students and enrich their studies. They require around 30 hours of project work and are typically completed by 14-to-16-year olds. Your students will develop their own project idea and will gain experience of going through the scientific process.
You will need to register your students through the Crest Award website: http://www.crestawards.org/
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Silver award: can you improve the shelf life of a fizzy drink?
Traditional fizzy drinks were made by fermentation using yeast. In this project, students make some fermented fizzy drinks investigate the effect of using additives and varying...
Silver award: Fraud detection using chromatography
In this project students use chromatography to detect forged cheques and other documents and various types of counterfeit goods. They will also investigate the best solvents to extract the inks and run TLC plates in order to compare the inks from the same part of a document printed on different models of a printer...
Silver award: build a model pirate ship ride
In this project students research theme park rides and design and build a model of the pirate ship ride, concentrating on how to support the swinging parts. Another vital component is the support that holds the gondola and the counterweight. ...
Silver award: build a robot
In this project, students will build a simple robot, for example using Lego or Meccano, that they can steer with switches. They could then adapt it to perform a ‘useful’ task.