FameLab Academy 2020 is finally here!
The FameLab team at the Foundation for the WA Museum have been hard at work to help Year 9 and 10 students from WA schools to live their dreams with some of Australia’s top STEM talent! On Wednesday we live stream FameLab Academy from Cecil Andrews College so that schools around WA can enjoy the presentations and ask questions of the contestants. Our FameLab Academy STEM stars will be judged by an esteemed panel of experts with FameLab Alumni Dr Paola Magni, Valeria Senigaglia and WA Museum’s Dr Mikael Sivverson.
Our contestants are listed below along with their FameLab Alumni mentors. Contestants and mentors were matched based on the topic of presentation so that our mentors could help coach them on #scicomm tips that would be relevant.
Cecil Andrews College
Mary Manubag – Genomodification
Mentor: Laura McCaughey
Jayden Edwards – Rubix Cube
Mentor: Cody Frear
Mireyah Arago – Radiation
Mentor: Anne Aulsebrook
Sacred Heart College
Abbey McQueen – Our Memory Process is like a treasure chest!
Mentor: Jaisalmer De Frutos Lucas
Alex Mennie – Food of Tomorrow – GMO
Mentor: Emma Aspin
Ben Hicks – The worlds natural travellers
Mentor: Sarah Belet
Grace Kane – Already Seen, Déjà v
Mentor: Dr Emily Brogan
Ashdale Secondary College
Matthew Keedy – Why does water not fall out of a cup when it spins?
Mentor: Leonardo Assis
Rhori Parr – Is there power behind positive thoughts?
Mentor: Dr Madeleine Ferrari
Kelvin Law – Why does a violin sound the way it does?
Mentor: Samuel Hinton
Chelsea Rodillas – What part of the brain can you live without?
Mentor: Lynn Nazareth
We wish all our FameLab Academy contestants the best of luck and hope they enjoy the day.
