2001 School Magazine

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Biofutures 2001

Rio Tinto Australian Biology Olympiad

The Siemens Science Experience

Titration Competition

in early July, two of our top Year 11 Biology students, ETin Couper and Elizabeth MCLellan, were selected to attend Biofutures 2001. This was an excellent and interesting biomedical engineering forum for students and was hosted jointly by the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology In late July, twenty of our top Year 12 Biology students were selected to attend a series of interesting short lectures on medical research topics at the Queensland institute of Medical Research (QIMR). Research topics discussed varied from natural remedies for skin cancer to the effects of kissing on the spread of glandular

Picture this! Summer holidays. the beach, swimming, movies. nothing educational. Well we all really wanted to swim but on the three hottest days of the summer holidays eleven BGGS girls along with 300 other students in Brisbane attended The Siemens Science Ex erience at the University of Queensland. TSSE was held on 16 - 18 January 2001 at several universities around Australia. TSSE involved three days of learning, fun and making new friends Over the three days we listened to ledurers, had classroom discussions and went on field trips. We learnt a range of things such as the fact that it is theoretically possible for humans to re-grow limbs if they are amputated, that being in love is like being on "heroin and ecstasy"at the same time and an abnormality in DNA was the cause of the Russian Revolution The highlight of TSSE was the Supernova:a dance held on the Wednesday night at the piazza at Southbank. The TSSE students from the other universities around Brisbane joined us and it was a night of excitement, meeting new people and making lifelong. friends Overall this was a great experience and we all recommend it to the girls who are invited in the coming years

On Saturday 26 May. three Year 12 students, Margaret Chung, Sandra Turk, and Anna Castrissios competed in the Regional heats of The Australian National Chemical Analysis Competition (commonly known as the Titration Competition) Therewereamostone un re or er teams at the University of Queensland venue, and the girls performed extremely well as representatives of BGGS. Margaret. Sandra and Anna are to be coinmended for their dedication to training for this competition. and their excellent work on the day

Late in 2000. after many hours of training with Mrs Sharma, four of our Year 12 students, Vanessa Whiting, Katelyn Peffer. Jessica Campbell and Claire Stewart, sat the National Qualifying Exams for the Rio Tinto Australian Biology Olympiad. Two of these students received awards, which were presented to them on April6 of this year at the Queensland Science Centre. Jessica Campbell attained a bronze award (third in the state and Claire Stewart a gold award mrst in the state). (See photos) Claim was also selected, as one of sixteen nationally selected scholars, to participate in an accelerated program of learning at the residential Scholar Training School in Canberra during January I February of this year. Claire found this experience enjoyable challenging and rewarding. in addition, five of our Year 11 students have been in training for the Biology Olympiad 2001. National Qualifying Exams. held in late October These students are Salma Sabdia, Tegan Burgess, Elizabeth MCLellan, Emma Luke and Shona MCCallum

Chemistry Olympiad

Year I I students Katie Gault, Priya Cherian. Kavita Paw. and Jennifer Mann were selected to take part in the Chemistry Olympiad this year At the moment, they are training for the National Qualifying Exam, which is to he held in October

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