It’s been such an intense two weeks of energised live chats and weird, wonderful and thought-provoking questions, all bringing lots of topical issues and tricky subjects up for debate.

The seven winning scientists have made it through four nail biting rounds of evictions. Each student vote counted and in some zones the evictions came down to just a few votes.

It’s time to reveal the winner in each zone. Congratulations to:

Zone	Winner	Where they work
Bromine Zone	John Short	University of St Andrews
Krypton Zone	Kirsty Ross	University of Strathclyde
Rubidium Zone	Nik Ibberson	Cambridge University Hospitals
Strontium Zone	Sarah Martin	SynthSys, University of Edinburgh
Animal Behaviour Zone	Jo Cruden	GlaxoSmithKline
Genes Zone	Anouk Gouvras	Natural History Museum
Materials Zone	Lizzie Eaves	University of Manchester

The winning scientists all receive £500 to spend on science communication, and we can’t wait to see their wonderful ideas put into practice!

Thank you to all the scientists who have taken part. You’ve been great contenders; each and every one of you has contributed to making this event a success.

We’d also like to thank teachers for your enthusiasm and involvement. And students for your questions and live chats, which have been a mixture of challenging, funny, thought-provoking and sometimes quite bizarre. We hope you’ve enjoyed taking part! Teachers and students, please remember to fill in our feedback surveys, so we can make future I’m a Scientist events even better!
Scientists and schools can sign up now for future events!

And finally, a BIG thank you to our funders, the Wellcome Trust. Wellcome support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities, and are dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health.