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Silver Young Investigators activities
For a silver Young Investigators award, students should design and carry out a project of their own.
There is lots of advice on how to plan an investigation and what is expected of a silver project in the Young Investigators pack.
Download a case study to get a better idea of the type of investigation work students have done in the past:
Adijat's project on building bridges
Download project (pdf 624kb)
Other projects which have been successful in the past include:
Testing aeroplane designs
Making parachutes
Investigating the grip of shoes
Measuring pollution in parks or on streets
Building ponds or wildlife areas
Making wind turbines
Comparing different diets
Investigating streamlining in cars, boats or animals
Testing different washing up liquids
Investigating seed germination
Comparing weather patterns
Recording behaviour of fish or birds