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CREST Awards: Gold
Crest Gold Awards allow students to conduct real research. They are longer-term projects that require around 70 hours’ work and are typically completed by 16-19-year-olds. At Gold level, your students’ work should contribute something new to the scientific or technological community or to a particular field of study.
You will need to register your students through the Crest Award website: http://www.crestawards.org/
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Gold award: a balanced diet
The aim of this project is to design a menu for somebody with a nutritional disorder. The project is split into two main sections. The first is very much research-based, finding out about a nutritional disorder. The second involves analytical chemistry and biology, as you will conduct food tests. Finally, students ...
Gold award: Investigating crash damage
In this project, students investigate how velocity and other factors affect the extent of bodywork damage in head-on collisions between model vehicles.
A family car travelling at 30 mph has about 90 kJ of kinetic energy. In a crash, this reduces to zero...
Gold awards: aerodynamics of sails
In this project students carry out some research about how sails ‘work’ - what are the aerodynamic principles of a sail, and what...
Gold award: build your own pinhole camera
Pinhole cameras can be made very simply, and they take reasonable pictures. But it’s a little more complicated to make a pinhole camera that takes a good picture, has an...