1. SI Surrey Hills SI Weybridge SI Woking
STEM CHALLENGE Finals and Prize-giving Evening Surrey University Tuesday, 14 March 2017
SI Surrey Hills
SI Weybridge
SI Woking

2. In addition to this Soroptimist International certificate, every girl taking part in the Challenge is entitled to receive a Bronze CREST award and two free cinema tickets donated by Ambassadors Cinemas Woking. Each girl in the winning team receives £50 and the winning school £250.

3. Nine projects from three schools - a wide variety of inventive, well thought-out solutions

4. Judges: Dr Noëlia Noel (Lecturer in Astrophysics) and Dr Izabela Jurewicz (Lecturer in Soft Matter), University of Surrey

5. Judges (l to r): Anna Christodoulou, SEPnet/Ogden Trust Outreach Officer, Royal Holloway; Anita Wu, civil engineer and keynote speaker; Sandra Chinyere, Healthcare Scientist, Clinical Services Manager, Neurophysiology, St Peter’s Hospital and Chair of the Judging Panel

6. Judge: Dr Elizabeth Lucek, Solar System Physicist, Imperial College, Woking-based

7. Judge: Lisa Barrott, Water Engineer, Woking-based

8. Judge: Alexis Neville, IT Specialist

9. Councillor Gordon Jackson, accompanied by Mrs Melanie Bright
The Mayor of Guildford,
Councillor Gordon Jackson,
accompanied by Mrs Melanie Bright

10. The Mayor and Mrs Bright inspect the projects

11. Competitors, parents, Soroptimists and Judges (here,l to r: Rhiannon Evans, PhD student at Imperial College, and Sandra Chinyere) gather for the Prizegiving Ceremony

12. One of the 6 Guildford County School projects – multivitamin tablets – awarded third place

13. The multi-coat project presented by another team from Guildford County School – awarded second place

14. The Mayor of Guildford with the winning team from Thamesmead School, Shepperton. Their water filtration scheme was based on natural materials and inspired by the Haiti earthquake.

15. Let’s do it all again next year!