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The Science Museum in London was the venue for this year's Rolls-Royce Science Prize Awards Dinner.
We are delighted to announce that Kells Lane PPrimary School, Gateshead, have been chosen by our judges as this year's winning team. Long Road Sixth Form College are this year's runner-up school. Many congratulations to all the schools in this year's finals and especially the St Anne’s Primary School team. To find out more about their projects visit the Finalists' pages.
This year Dr Laura Grant, TV Presenter and research fellow at the University of Liverpool, took the MC duties and presented the evening. 270 guests from the science education community, industry, government, Rolls-Royce and the media were in attendance to see this year’s winner announced.
Long Road Sixth Form College also received a second award during the evening, as Tim Smit, Chief Executive and co-founder of The Eden Project, gave the team the Eden Project Prize for the most successful project encompassing Eden's values.
Professor Chris Rapley, Director of the Science Museum was the key note speaker at this year's awards dinner.
The awards were presented by Sir John Rose, Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce plc, who confirmed the company's ongoing commitment to helping teachers in their vital role, educating the future scientists and engineers needed to provide long term solutions to many of the challenges facing our world.