This conference has been organised as a result of the sister school agreement between Jishukan High School in Japan, St Paul’s School in England and Otto von Taube Gymnasium in Germany. Jishukan has been declared a ‘Super Science High School’ by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), an honour bestowed on very few schools and we are delighted to support that program by hosting this exciting event.

As everyone here appreciates, communication of ideas, especially science ideas, is an increasingly important skill in the modern world. It is very exciting to have to opportunity to allow students to demonstrate these skills and for them to appreciate at the start of their scientific careers that they live and work in a community, both of scientists and non-scientists. Without the ability to make others understand what they do and without an appreciation of the international flavour of science their futures would be much more limited.

This conference has been organised as a result of the sister school agreement between Jishukan High School in Japan, St Paul’s School in England and Otto von Taube Gymnasium in Germany. Jishukan has been declared a ‘Super Science High School’ by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), an honour bestowed on very few schools and we are delighted to support that program by hosting this exciting event.

As everyone here appreciates, communication of ideas, especially science ideas, is an increasingly important skill in the modern world. It is very exciting to have to opportunity to allow students to demonstrate these skills and for them to appreciate at the start of their scientific careers that they live and work in a community, both of scientists and non-scientists. Without the ability to make others understand what they do and without an appreciation of the international flavour of science their futures would be much more limited.

This conference has been organised as a result of the sister school agreement between Jishukan High School in Japan, St Paul’s School in England and Otto von Taube Gymnasium in Germany. Jishukan has been declared a ‘Super Science High School’ by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), an honour bestowed on very few schools and we are delighted to support that program by hosting this exciting event.

As everyone here appreciates, communication of ideas, especially science ideas, is an increasingly important skill in the modern world. It is very exciting to have to opportunity to allow students to demonstrate these skills and for them to appreciate at the start of their scientific careers that they live and work in a community, both of scientists and non-scientists. Without the ability to make others understand what they do and without an appreciation of the international flavour of science their futures would be much more limited.

I learned that we need to sing differently by languages in choir. So I got interested in foreign languages and I wanted to compare languages. Because Chigusa High School is emphasizing the foreign language education, I was also interested in language education and also I thought it would help people with speech disorders to research on comparing languages. That’s why I started this linguistic research. I recorded English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean and Chinese short monophthong vowels. Then I compared their formants and MRI images.

The cloud chamber is a device which allows the tracks of charged particles such as alpha and beta radiation to be seen.  It was invented by the Scottish physicist Charles Wilson and he was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1927 for his discovery.  In its simplest form, a supersaturated vapour (usually of isopropanol) is formed inside a closed container and the passage of charged particles causes ionisation of the air resulting in a vapour trail which is visible to the naked eye.  In our case this container was a fish tank rather than the much smaller containers usually used in school experiments.  It was then used to measure the activity of an isotope of Thorium used in welding electrodes in order to confirm the percentage of Thorium present.  This was done by observing the vapour trails left as as result of the emission of alpha particles and then calculating the number of Thorium atoms present for a given level of radioactive activity.

Beer is and has been a famous and important drink for long time. Most of us know what it tastes like but only few can say how it is made and what it is composed of. In order to optimize, standardize and control the beer production, it is important to have detailed information about all the contents of the liquid. One substance found in the fluid is sugar but at the moment not much data is available providing detailed and exact numbers about its specific values. The aim of this work was to find out how the sugar values change while making the drink.

‘Chaos theory’ is a new area of science and mathematics that looks at seemingly disorderly systems, which are now shown to be deterministic. The theory explores the chaotic nature of specific mathematical functions when they are iterated, aiming to showcase and explain the complex behaviour of many natural systems, ranging from a dripping faucet to the weather. The discovery of the overwhelming presence of chaotic behaviour all around us leads one to declare that Chaos is beautiful. It is visually beautiful for the images of fractals that now often represent it. Its countless applications in various fields, such as medicine and economics, makes it even more appreciated far outside of the scientific community. Finally, it is perhaps most beautiful for the significance it can have on how we perceive science, life and our world.

We supposed that increases in the hydrophilic effect by mixing a little CO₂ into He used as reaction gas in last year's study is due to chemical action by CO₂.

Therefore, this year we studied the recovery of hydrophobicity which we could not do last year and the generation of the plasma used only CO₂

Scientists have been steadily accumulating evidence for dark matter for a number of years. Currently, one of the leading particle physics theories for this missing matter are WIMPS (weakly interacting massive particles). This talk will explain what WIMPS are and how scientists hope to detect them.

Little is known about inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD). Since the numbers of incidences in industrialized countries have increased and are emerging in developing countries, the necessitiy for research has become inevitable in order to find risk factors early on to treat or even prevent IBD.

My research was based on the question of whether maternal inflammation has any impact on the mucosal offspring’s development of experimentally induced Colitis. Histological measurements showed that offspring deriving from inflamed mothers tend to be less susceptible to an induced colitis than offspring deriving from healthy mothers.

Gold and silver nanoparticles have been used for many centuries, but it is only in recent years that we have had the techniques to characterise them and they have sparked considerable interest in recent years owing to their potential uses in technology and medicine. In this talk Irene, Natalie & Ben will demonstrate how they have synthesised gold and silver nanoparticles and have attempted to use them to monitor the kinetics of common chemical reactions encountered at A-level.

Igem is an international contest in which genetic engineering is used to create circuits and sensors to a useful end and, in doing so, encourage universal access to a standardised set of genetic material from which to build. Our project is ambitious, not least because we are the first school from the UK to participate in this event.  Our aim is to investigate an allergen, alpha s1 casein, the protein responsible for milk allergy. We will seek to build a semi-quantitative detection mechanism for the allergen we choose with views on building a degradation mechanism next year. 

Nitrocellulose is a kind of ester which -OH on cellulose is changed into -ONO₂. It burns intensively for a moment, and is used in lacquer and gunpowder. We have been trying to change the color of the nitrocellulose flame by colorful flame reactions. However, it takes too much time to attach metallic ions to nitrocellulose, so we focused on making nitrocellulose with flame reactions in a short time.

The Radiation Around You project at The Langton Star Centre aims to produce a map of the background radiation around the South-East by utilising the CERN-developed Medipix microchip, a hybrid pixel detector. Results from preliminary experiments will be presented, their implications analysed, and the future plan for RAY discussed.

The poster session will run in two halves. From 12:00 to 12:45 the students from Japan and Germany are invited to show their posters. These include:

·         Johanna Schönecker: Cross education effect in exercises requiring accurate muscle activation: an EMG biofeedback study

·         Bennet Breier: Development of an app for the conference ‘EARLI 2013’

·         Yoshikawa Kie: The Possibility in usage of Exotic Plants as a weed-killer 

·         Tatsuro Nakao, Tomoya Shimomura: Thermite Process

·         Sugimoto Shogo: Spectroscopic observation of Elves With Red Filter and Blue filter

·         Noda Rieko: The Correlation between Chicken Egg-Turning and Positioning and the Development of Chicken Eggs

·         Ryo Okamoto: ­­Research on Light Pollution by using SQM

·         Shunya Otsuki: Changing the Reaction Time of the Clock Reaction by adding Alcohol

·         Ryoma Sasaki: Differences of molecular structure towards oxidation of secondary alcohols

·         Shunya Kitayama: Bryophytes elucidation of dormant

·         Yuki Sakisita: Approach to generate wave with the shape of a letter by using homebrew wave generator

·         Yurika Asami, Mami Sugawara: Disaster prevention city planning

·         Shun Watanabe: Genetic information and society

·         Shiho Nagai: Let’s See Radiation

·         Wise Lisa: Planaria in Teas

·         Kohei Kawamura, Nana Takahara, Yuka Hamajama, Ayaka Maeda: Extraction of medicinal properties

·         Yasuko Tsuruta: On the Strength of Alien Species

·         Itakura Yoshihiro, Kawahara Kou: Science with slime mold ! The multiplication project

·         Naoaki Kamiya, Takeo Naito, Naomi Sawaki, Ryoko Sawada: Relationship between Wavelength and Scattering

·         Shirasawa Takamasa,  Miyamoto Kana: Reproduction and environment of Planaria

·         Naoki Yagi: The Relationship between Math and Music

·         Yukiko Naito, Yusuke Asai, So Ishida, Kazuma Kawaguchi, Yu Nisizawa: The Habit Of Mosquitoes　

From 12:45 to 1:30 the other students are asked to present their posters. These include:

·         James Hurst, Chris Cindy, Todd Liebenschultz- Jones, Matt Brady, Matt Harrison, Dimitrios Theodorakis: Radiation Around You

·         Oliver Arnold, Max Bayne, Rishi Anand: Pask Society Genetic Modification

·         Alyssa Dayan, Tom Hartley, Ying Li: AirPi

·         Andreas Ioannou, Alex Matthews: Splinter Bike

·         Azmain Chowdhury: The potential of Graphene

·         Emma Norris, Yasmin Khan-Osborne: Researching, designing, making and marketing Team Infinity for F1 in schools

·         Alex Budd, Charles Larminie, Jack Woollett: Construction and use of a fish tank cloud chamber to measure the activity of radioactive sources

·         Keturah Civelek: The Boehm Flute: A revolution in flute design

·         Theo Heymann, David Shah, Nicolas Weninger: Balloon Sat competition

·         Pranav Prabhu, Raphael Taylor-Davies, Daniel Mobayyen: Cansat competition

·         Giovanni Bergamo-Andreis: Physics of rowing

·         Harry Dent: Space exploration technologies

·         Stuart Ashforth: Explosives

·         Josh Kellie: Science of Poké Balls

·         Phil Dinenis: Unravelling curves

·         Arnav Ahuja: Measuring distances in space

·         William Martin: Determining the orbital elements and eventual fate of (5836)1993MF

·         Will Kaufhold:  The biomechanics of dragon flight