A Wellington College pupil claimed two top prizes at this year’s NIWA Wellington Science and Technology Fair. Winning the NIWA award for best overall exhibit, year 11 Jesse Rumball-Smith received $1,000 for his project 'Driving Nudging Towards .
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Baker became a trusted household figure from the moment the pandemic took hold in New Zealand and helped inform the Government’s Covid-19 response. He also won the science and technology category. The award is just another to add to the trophy cabinet for the public health physician, who was previously awarded the Prime Minister’s Science Prize as a member of HHRP and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. In accepting the award, Baker said given the competition he had thought an epidemiologist winning was a “low probability event” Baker said we had seen strong recognition of the importance of science and evidence in the past year, and he was accepting the award “for all scientists across the country”.