Last week to enter the UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing!
Calling all aspiring science writers in years 7-10! The UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing 2019 is now open for entries.
FAQs: UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing
Who is the competition for?
The UNSW Bragg student prize is open to all high school students in Years 7–10.
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How this year 10 student won the 2016 UNSW Bragg Student Prize for Science...
Year 10 student Marissa Petrakis shares the thoughts and experiences that led her to write an award-winning science essay.
Here are the UNSW Bragg Writing Prize winners for 2018
This year’s UNSW Science Bragg Writing Prize was themed around ‘Technology and Tomorrow’. This year's winners weren't lacking in creative interpretation. Read about cyborgs and transhumanism, accessibility in tech and 40 years of MRI technology.
The pricey problem with assistive technology
18% of Australians with a disability live in poverty... but assistive technology clocks in at thousands of dollars per device. UNSW Bragg Writing Prize winner Preethika Mathan diagnoses the problem with disability tech in her investigative essay.
What is an MRI? This powerful technology turns 40 years old
UNSW Bragg Writing Prize runner up, Sienna Ters answers the question 'What is an MRI?' in her informative essay. The MRI was discovered 40 years ago, but it's far from outdated. Sienna investigates just how essential this tech is to medicine today.
Biohacking the future
As biohacking technology embeds itself into our everyday lives, we may be prompted to ask: how long until we are more computer than human? UNSW Bragg Writing Prize runners up, Coco Dwyer and Ruby Mumford investigate the seemingly inevitable future of biohacking and transhumanism.
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Meet the judges for the UNSW Bragg Student Prize for 2019
Deborah Smith
Science writer
Deborah Smith has had a distinguished career as a journalist with Fairfax Media and a media and content manager with UNSW Sydney....
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The fate of the Great Barrier Reef
Carol Ge is a runner up in UNSW's Bragg Writing Prize. Read Carol's piece about the devastating effects of climate change on our Great Barrier Reef.
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