Winners

Congratulations to the winners! The winners of the most recent SAASTA / Saturday Star Young Science Writers’ Competition [2006] are:

Overall winner

First prize: Dheshnie Govender, a PhD student at the University of Cape Town, with her essay on stem cells and graying hair. Read the essay:

• A silver lining [55k]

Dheshnie Govender is a PhD student at the University of Cape Town and her winning entry buys her a ticket to the AAAS meeting in the US early in 2007.

Runners-up:

• More than just a game [73k]
  Rodain Joubert - Rhodes University
  

• A recipe for turning waste gas into diesel [41k]
  Cayle Sharrock - University of Cape Town
  

• Scientists and their particular love affair [94k]
  Ernita van Wyk - CSIR

Dheshnie is being sponsored by SAASTA to attend the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco in February 2007. The three runners-up share a R16 000 cash prize.