Congratulations to Keshia Linyard who won both the Supreme Art Award AND the Supreme Science Award at the recent Cawthron Scitec Expo! And well done to all our other award winners listed below.

2023 Cawthron Scitec Expo Prize Winners - Nayland College

Science experiment

• Connor Edmonds - Years 9-10 Winner 
• Keshia Linyard - SUPREME AWARD 

Technology

• Ivan Shabashev - Years 9-10 Winner  
• Tiago Lart - Years 11-13 Winner 

Art

• Liv Chapman - Years 9-10 Winner 
• Uma Vij - Years 11-13 Winner 
• Keshia Linyard - SUPREME AWARD

Special Awards

• Astrid Sayer - Aquaculture Award, sponsored by NMIT Te Pūkenga
• Iris Moffat -Bird, Plant or Animal Protection Award, sponsored by Forest and Bird
• Isla Swanney - Marine and Freshwater Award, sponsored by Soroptimists Nelson
• Amy Wilson - Statistics Award, sponsored by New Zealand Statistical Association
• Orion B Masters - Te Ao Māori Award, sponsored by Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Rārua

Nelson Weekly reporter Kate Russell interviewed Keshia Linyard and you can read the article here in this week's Nelson Weekly. 

The team at Cawthron also wrote an article, pieces of which are included below:

Nayland College student Keshia Linyard has won both the Supreme Science and Supreme Art Awards over 270 other entrants at this year’s Cawthron Scitec Expo.

Making her feat even more remarkable, this is the second year in a row that the Year 10 student has won the Scitec Supreme Art Award. Keshia entered two separate projects that were judged against all other entries, from students in Years 1- 13, to win her awards this year.

Nelson Science Society president and Lead Judge Jenny Pollock said it was a highly unusual achievement for the one student to win two of the four Supreme Prizes at the Scitec Expo.
“I’ve been judging for over a decade and can’t recall this ever happening before in my time.
“We had a large number of entries this year across all four categories, and the fact that Keshia has won two Supreme Awards really demonstrates the consistently high quality of her work.”

Keshia’s art entry – Coral Catastrophe – comprised of an intricate clay coral sculpture accompanied by four highly detailed paintings plus an extensive logbook and research demonstrating the development of her ideas.

Keshia’s science project – There’s Something in the Water – involved an experiment on the effects of a commercially available fertilizer on the growth of freshwater cyanobacteria. The judges described her work as “outstanding science,” saying she showed great methodology, well-developed conclusions and had thought through the implications her experiment.
“She is a future scientist and expresses that passion very well,’’ one judge noted. 

You can read the full article here: Nayland student excels at Scitec Expo - Cawthron Institute