Nexxus Scotland

Primary Pupils Pick up Prizes in Art Meets Science Competition

Three Primary 7 City of Glasgow schoolchildren and three adults have collected £100 gift vouchers for their prizewinning entries showing in a visual format what life science means to them. Prizes were presented at the third Annual Nexxus Life Science Award event to celebrate life science in the West of Scotland on 7 November 2007.  

Introducing the competition to the assembled guests at the Awards evening in the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Kate Rowley, manager of Nexxus, explained : "Life science is such a wide area involving everything from diagnostics to therapeutics, from pharmaceuticals to medical devices, from contract research to much, much more that we thought it would be fun to ask people to give us a visual interpretation of what they thought of as life science.

She continued : "We received everything from cartoons to highly technical pieces of artwork with the eventual winners being chosen by the prize sponsors - Byrne Recruitment, Diligence Risk Management, Insurance Management Group, Kennedys Patent, Shepherd + Wedderburn and the University of Glasgow."

All of the entries can be seen on the Nexxus website at http://www.nexxusscotland.com/news/life-sci_visions_competition/life-sci_visions_entries and will be on display to the public for a short period in Science Street at the Glasgow Science Centre with the winning entries being shown on the plasma screen at the top of Buchanan Street for a week from 9 November thanks to the assistance of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau.

The winners were all delighted to receive their prizes and thanks to the Glasgow Science Centre, the teachers of the winning Primary 7 entrants are looking forward to taking the winner and their classmates on a visit there with free entry in the near future.  

Winning entries were submitted by :

Megan Rodger, Arden Primary School for "The Planets - What Step Next for Man"
Danielle Kayes,  St Louise's Primary School, Arden for "What I Think Life Science Is"
Ellen Devine, The Glasgow Academy for "World Life Science"
Adam Curtis (University of Glasgow)  - Adult Life Scientist Category for a mosaic entitled "Two Fibroblasts "
Lauren Scally (Bearsden, Glasgow) - Adult General Public Category for "Ladybird"
Murray Robertson (Glasgow Print Studio) - Adult Artist Category for"Echovirus 12"