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  • (Sarah McArthur) I remember once going to a function where

  • Clare Oliver was and she died from melanoma at the age of 26.

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  • (Myles Buckley) I first became interested

  • in this area because I had a family friend.

  • He actually explained to me all the potentials

  • for it and I got really interested.

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  • (Yaya Lu) The main reason I started this project

  • was because I wanted to enter into the Billiton.

  • And I thoughtYou know quadriplegics need independence in their movement”.

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  • (Sarah) I examined the gene that malfunctions in

  • various cancers and what that gene does is it prevents

  • the immune system from attacking the cancer.

  • I was able to introduce a drug to try to reverse that effect

  • that the gene has on the cancers so that we're able to

  • overcome the cancer resistance to the immune system.

  • And in that way we're utilising the body's own

  • defence mechanisms in order to treat the cancer.

  • (Myles) My experiment

  • investigating using diatomite

  • which is basically kitty litter covered in a hydrophobic

  • coating to see whether you could absorb oil selectively off water.

  • You could have a new method of dealing

  • with oil spills; a method where the oil actually becomes

  • part of the solution by paying for its own removal.

  • You could say it's an Ockham's Razor.

  • It's the simplest method you could think of.

  • (Yaya) Well my project is largely on the idea of a voice

  • control system. I've developed several wheelchair

  • prototypes that could be used. For example, using a

  • wheelchair which can move sideways left and sideways right.

  • I've also got a wheelchair which could lift the chair

  • up and down to allow the quadriplegic to be able

  • to talk to people face to face. And I've also

  • developed a shopping trolley or a personal assistant.

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  • (Michael van der Ploeg) My time at ISEF was the highlight

  • of my career. It was something I'll always remember.

  • It's a huge science fair, 1600 entries, over

  • three million dollars' worth of prize money.

  • For Intel to come on board it's wonderful and I think

  • it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. It was a real

  • celebration of science, it was a real celebration of

  • students work and they were treated like rock stars.

  • (Myles) What I'm looking forward to about ISEF is there's a

  • really big room full of about 3,000 projects and that means you

  • can just walk around and look at all these projects and they're

  • from all different parts of the globe. It's going to be amazing.

  • (Yaya) In terms of the future for this project I'm thinking

  • of developing a full size wheel chair. I've already had a

  • couple of people from Google come over and talk to me about

  • potentially creating a full sized wheelchair with them.

  • (Sara) Entering the BHP Billiton Awards and then

  • taking my ideas to ISEF has really given me

  • the confidence to keep going with this idea

  • and to be testing it even further and testing

  • myself even further. And I'm really grateful

  • to have been given the opportunities that

  • I've been given because I'd love to be able to

  • see this become a new treatment for cancer.

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