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2024 Winners

Year 10-11 Category Winner

Julia Chung | Year 10

St Swithun’s School Hampshire

Coevolution: If you had to survive, would you reap benefits, or lives?
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Overall Winner

Arushi Vasanad | Year 11

Pate's Grammar School Gloucestershire

Brains to Brilliance: The Evolution of the Mind towards Cerebral Thinking
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Year 12-13 Category Winner

Jaden Lim | Year 12

Harrow School London

Dogs, avocados and yoghurt – harnessing evolution through domestication
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Welcome to the Official 2024 Oxford Scientist© Schools Competition Publication. Explore the exclusive full list of finalists and congratulations to all Winners, Runners-up, other finalists and participants!

A special thanks to Senior Competition Director Gavin Man, Schools Lead Franziska Guenther, and Senior Judges Professor Andrew Gosler and Dr. Roberta Baronio. With a record number of submissions and outstanding quality across four rounds of marking, all finalists should be proud of their achievements. We are excited to announce the Winners and Runners-up of the 2024 Oxford Scientist Schools Competition

2024 Runners-up

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Archie Turner Year 10

Aldenham School Hertfordshire

The Rate of Evolution: A Well (Time) Travelled Whale

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Roman Lorello Year 12

University College School London

Grow smart and die fast: the peculiar evolution of the octopus mind

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Sophia Feldman Year 12

South Hampstead High School London

Iron's Irreplaceable Role in Evolution

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Aaminah Imran Year 12

London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, London

Evolution of the human eye

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Earl Xavier Fornillos Year 13

St Bonaventure's School London

From Stone to Silicon: The Evolution of Human-Data Interaction

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Flo Rowson Year 12

Reigate College Surrey

Phone use and marshmallows: How less is s’more

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2024 Shortlisted

Nate Varga Von Kibed Year 11

Westminster School London

The Dark Side of Big Data: How Our Information Fuels Addiction, Manipulation and Shapes Society

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Ankara Prabdial Year 10

St Swithun’s School Hampshire

Is being Born Digital a Signpost for Human Evolution?

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Daniel Johnson Year 12

Southam College Warwickshire

Evolution of death

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Linda Fan Year 10

City of London School for Girls London

Biased Algorithms in Melanoma Diagnoses

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Abdelrahim Bazina Year 10

Outwood Academy Riverside Cleveland

Questioning Wisdom: Free Will vs Evolutionary Determinism

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Dean Miaris Year 11

Wyvern College Hampshire

The Omnipotent Evolution of Device and Data

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Emir Aksoy Year 10

Westminster School London

The use of data to control the masses

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James Hardie Year 10

Calday Grange Grammar School Wirral

Music - Adaptation or Exaptation?

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Tvisha Mohan Year 11

Henrietta Barnett School London

The Evolution of Empathy

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Bryan Barr Year 12

Friends' School Lisburn Northern Ireland

Can we evolve to live forever?

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Chris Vijayakumar Year 11

Pate's Grammar School Gloucestershire

Nature’s game of rock paper scissors

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Erin Samaranayaka Year 12

Withington Girls' School Manchester

The Death of Evolution at the Hands of CRISPR-Cas9

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Elin Evans Year 12

South Nottinghamshire Academy Nottinghamshire

It's a kind of magic: how evolution has warped the world of science

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Dominic Luff Year 12

The London Oratory School London

Are humans still evolving?

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Clemency (Clemmie) Watkins Year 12

Latymer Upper School London W6

‘Boys will be boys’? Is ‘masculinity’ honed by evolution?

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Jessica Edmunds Year 12

Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls Birmingham

Modern evolutionary examples of protective colouration

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Harley Corsie Year 12

Sutton High School Greater London

Who can we attribute the modern Periodic System to?

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Milly Gladstone Year 12

Marlborough College Wiltshire

Consciousness: A Glimpse into the Origins of Free Will

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Thomas Tian Year 12

Harrow School Middlesex

Electrons – How Our Perception of This Subatomic Entity Has Evolved

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Samahir Imran Year 12

Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls we

The Dawn of AI in Oncology: Transforming Cancer Prediction, Diagnosis, and Prognosis

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Lexi Birchley Year 12

Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls West Midlands

Decoding the brain: the developments of AI in Alzheimer’s disease research

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Reyna Bulchandani Year 12

The Lady Eleanor Holles School Middlesex

The Evolution of Computation: Making the impossible possible

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Emily Sanderson Year 12

STAHS Herts

Evolution and homicide: Is homicide adaptation theory a valid evolutionary theory?

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Rachel Vohralik Year 12

Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Lancashire

DNA: the future of data storage?

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