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Support

The International Science School could not be run without the generous financial backing of all our supporters. This includes those who have given to the Messel Endowment, the Science Foundation's campaign to secure the long-term financial future of the Professor Harry Messel International Science Schools. We wamly thank all our contributors to the Messel Endowment.

While there is still some way to go before the Messel Endowment has enough preserved capital to fully support each ISS, we thank those organisations and individuals who support individual ISSs.

Emeritus Professor Dick Collins, Head of the School of Physics and Director of the Foundation from 1997 to 2000, is donating proceeds from his book, Lots of Scars, directly to the Messel Endowment.

The Science Foundation for Physics warmly thanks the following organisations for their support of ISS2009:

  • The Messel Endowment
  • Australian Government through the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR)
  • NSW Government through the Department of Education and Training (DET)
  • The Kirby Foundation
  • Adolph Basser Trust
  • Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney
  • Chancellor's Committee, The University of Sydney
  • The Smithsonian Institute, USA

The Science Foundation for Physics warmly thanks the following individuals for their support of ISS2009:

Mr Robert Arnott, Dr Gregory Clark, Mr Trevor Danos, Mr Ron Enestrom, Associate Professor Robert Hewitt & Mrs Helen Hewitt, Mr John Hooke CBE, Associate Professor Brian James & Dr Ferg Brand through Dr Wie Xu, Dame Leonie Kramer AC DBE, Mr Bruce McAdam & Mrs Janice McAdam, Mr Robert Rich, Mr Albert Wong, other individuals through the Foundation's Annual Appeal.

State Selection Committies

Australian students are selected with the support of the NSW Department of Education and Training and Science Teachers Associations in Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, the Northern Territory, the ACT and Western Australia.

The following institutions assisted in the selection and travel of the overseas students:

  • The Affiliated High School of Peking University, China
  • Rivers Collegiate, Canada
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology (MEXT), Japan
  • Ministry of Education, Malaysia
  • The Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Ministry of Education, Singapore
  • Ministry of Education, Thailand
  • The Association for Science Education, UK
  • The Royal Institution of Great Britain
  • The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), UK
  • Department of Energy, USA
  • Raman Research Institute, India