Congratulations to the winners!
The High School winner was Anvi K and the Primary School winner was Ella G. The gallery of winners and top 10 submissions is now available!
Are you a school student who likes a creative challenge?
Your challenge: You must digitally colour one of the incredible close-up images of insects taken by ANSTOs powerful Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM).
Enter our Incredible Insects Competition during the month of July 2022, you could win yourself a prize pack worth over $100! School students from all States/ Territories of Australia are invited to enter.
Insects are incredible! They makeup 80% of the world’s known species and are found everywhere – even in Antarctica, in jungles and deserts, on the surface of the ocean, deep in caves, on the tops of mountains and even on other animals! There are about one million different types of insects. Here you can enjoy an unusual close-up view of some common insects and discover many incredible features!
About the images
Electron microscopes use beams of electrons (tiny negatively charged particles) instead of light to achieve extremely high levels of magnification. They are used at ANSTO to research materials for industrial and medical applications, as well as to found out more about the world around us!
In the images you see here, insects were magnified with an SEM to reveal incredible surface structures in 3D that cannot be seen with our own eyes. Revealing hidden structures in nature can often give scientists insights and clues to how they could manufacture materials with improved properties.
All SEM images are the copyrighted property of ANSTO. They cannot be distributed or used for any purpose other than for the use described by this competition. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited.
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