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Five secondary schools have been
selected to vie for the 6th Princess Rashidah Young Nature
Scientists Award, PRYNSA. The list of the finalists was
announced at a gathering held Tuesday at the Pengiran Anak
The chief guest at the function,
the Head of Services, Transport and Logistics of Brunei Shell
Petroleum, Awang Haji Mahmud bin Haji Idris said that BSP pledge
to continue to give support to the Young Scientists Scheme. As
the sponsor of the PRYNSA Award, he said, the support is in line
with BSP’s commitment that is not only concerned with the
economic aspects but also the development of human resources and
environment conservation.
Awang Haji Mahmud handed over a
cheque for B$15 thousand for the PRYNSA-Six project to the
Acting Director of Forestry, Awang Haji Saidin bin Salleh. He
also presented cheques for a total amount of B$5
Only five teams were selected to
the final stage. They are the Sultan Hassan Secondary School
with its project entitled ‘The Relationship Between Small
Invertebrates and Their Physical Environment: A Comparative
Study of Disturbed and Undisturbed Small Invertebrate
Communities in the Temburong District’; the Pengiran Anak Puteri
Hajah Masna Secondary School, with its research on ‘The Beach
Forest: The Dynamic and Neglected Forest in Brunei Darussalam’;
and the Pehin Datu Seri Maharaja Secondary School whose proposal
is on ‘The Study of Nepenthes in the Kerangas Forest in Brunei
Darussalam’, which is a comparison between numbers and types of
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Meanwhile, the Paduka Seri Begawan
Sultan Science College is doing research on ‘Termites in the
Mixed Dipterocarp Forest of the Ulu Temburong National Park: A
Study of their Species Richness and the Effect of Physical
Disturbance on their Diversity’; and the Saiyidina Ali Secondary
School is studying ‘The Ecological Relationships Between Lianas
and their Host Trees in the Rainforests of the Ulu - Their
Diversity’.
Each school is represented by
eight students and two teachers. All the young scientists are
Form 5 students, except for the Sultan Hassan Secondary School
Temburong, whose members comprise of Form 2 students. The
finalists will carry out their research throughout the year,
after which they will submit their final reports to be judged by
a panel. The study also requires them to conduct field works in
Brunei’s forest reserves, such as the Ulu Temburong National
Park, during the term holidays at the end of this month, and
laboratory works in their own schools.
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