The first ever science festival, ‘Science Days in Gozo’ came to an end on Friday evening with the presentation of prizes to the winners by the Minister for Gozo, Dr Anton Refalo.

The National Student Travel Foundation – Malta (NSTF), in collaboration with the Ministry for Gozo organised the festival, which was held between Wednesday and Friday at the Ministry for Gozo Exhibition Hall in Victoria.The festival attracted over 700 students who registered to visit this event, with 400 students participating in Primary Level Programmes (Science Art Contest and Primary School Contest for young Scientists), 10 students participating in the Secondary School Contest for young Scientists, 100 students participated in the pan-European event Science Photo Contest and over 55 projects were exhibited during the festival.

During this event all art work, models and research conducted by Gozitan students in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and related subjects was on display.

The competitions and prizes were:

Science Art Contest (years 1-3) A science book was awarded for the best entry from each school.

Primary School Contest for Young Scientists (years 4-6) The participants of the winning project was a science educational instrument.

School Contest for Young Scientists (Forms 1-5) Students and teacher will go abroad on a science tour.

Contest for Young Scientists (sixth form and post sec colleges including MCAST) Winners will participate in the EU Contest for Young Scientists taking place in Warsaw.

Science Photo Contest (all ages) A camera was awarded to the best entry from Gozo.

The full list of winners for the first ‘Science Days in Gozo’ are shown below:

Science Art Contest

Gozo College Gharb Primary – Joseph Saliba

St. Francis School – Jerome Farrugia

Gozo College San Lawrenz Primary – Michael Xuereb

Gozo College Zebbug Primary – Luke Saliba

Gozo College Nadur Primary School- Victoria Axiaq

St Theresa School – Justin Micallef

Gozo College Xewkija Primary Shaniya Spiteri

Gozo College Rabat (Victoria) Primary – Perla Bugeja

Gozo College Ghajnsielem Primary – Carlos Camilleri

Gozo College Sannat Primary – Nathan Pace

Gozo College Kercem Primary – Sabrina Grech

Gozo College Xaghra Primary- Jean Attard

Primary School Contest for Young Scientists

1st Rachel Mizzi

2nd Yohann Curmi, Nicolai Vella, George Galea,

3rd Hayley Attard

4th Matthias Camilleri

School Contest for Young Scientists

Group 1 – Matthew Attard, Shaun Galea, Luke Galea

Group 2 – Domenico Agius, Thomas Buttigieg, Jeremy Buttigieg

School Lab

Thomas Zammit

Francesco Sultana

Science Photo Contest

Elaine Grima Nadur Primary

Gabriella Grima Girls Sec school

Andrea Muscat UoM

Martha Scerri Nadur Primary

Angelique Portelli Zebbug Primary

Joseph Andrew Bajada Zaghra Primary.

Photographs by Alain Salvary.

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