{"id":3941,"date":"2024-01-16T04:53:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/?post_type=article&#038;p=3941"},"modified":"2024-01-16T04:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:53:31","slug":"stansw-young-scientist-award","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/article\/stansw-young-scientist-award\/","title":{"rendered":"STANSW Young Scientist Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Isla<\/strong>\u00a0(Year 11) was recently invited to attend the awards ceremony for the STANSW Young Scientist Awards at UTS for her Year 10 2023 Science student research project on the influence of light colour on the growth of lettuce. She employed the Kratky hydroponic method to grow the lettuce which does not require electrical energy which makes it a passive and sustainable option for cultivating plants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday night, Isla was awarded 1<sup>st<\/sup> place for Year 9 \u2013 Year 10 (2023) in Biology which is an excellent achievement.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; Scott Tibbey<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nAssistant Head of Department \u2013 Science<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3942\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/01\/isla-blurred-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/01\/isla-blurred-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/01\/isla-blurred-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/01\/isla-blurred-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isla\u00a0(Year 11) was recently invited to attend the awards ceremony for the STANSW Young Scientist Awards at UTS for her Year 10 2023 Science student research project on the influence of light colour on the growth of lettuce. She employed the Kratky hydroponic method to grow the lettuce which does not require electrical energy which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3941","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}