Congratulations to the 2018 Canada-Wide Science Fair winners from the GVRSF!
This year, 17 students from the GVRSF won the Grand Award of a week-long trip to Ottawa for the Canada Wide Science Fair (CWSF). Along with the experience of presenting their projects to experts and peers on the national stage, touring Ottawa, and making new friends across the country and internationally, team GVRSF brought home $115,500 in cash and scholarships! The full breakdown is as follows:
- $115,500 in total prizes and scholarships
- $12,000 in cash prizes and equivalent (trips, boot camps, etc)
- $103,500 in scholarships
- 3 Gold medals
- 8 Silver medals
- 4 Bronze medals
| Rebecca Baron A Novel Microbial Biofiltration Technology for Improving Indoor Air Quality (Senior, Prince of Wales Secondary) | Bronze Medal $3,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Rebecca Rathlef Are Natural Products Effective Sunscreens? (Junior, Prince of Wales Secondary) | Gold Medal $4,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Jacky Zhao Augmenting Hearing Capabilities of the Deaf with Natural Language Processing (Senior, St George’s School) | Silver Medal $10,500 in cash and scholarships |
| Aaron Lee (Intermediate, Prince of Wales Secondary) | Bronze Medal $1,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Milo Eirew Cardio Cardigan – A lifesaving robotic wearable to provide mobility & CPR (Intermediate, St John’s School) | Bronze Medal $1,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Yimeng Li Developing a Novel Bacterial-Induced Cu(II) Crystallization Method (Intermediate, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary) | Silver Medal $2,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Mohammed Al-Seragi Don’t Meddle With Metal: The Remediation of Pb(II) Wastewater (Intermediate, R C Palmer Secondary) | Silver Medal $2,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Harrison Cormier Evaluating Stress Reduction Methods in Adolescents by Analyzing Key Bio Signals (Junior, Island Pacific School) | Silver Medal $2,500 in cash and scholarships |
| William Shen Exploring the Genetic Basis of Dengue Virus Transmission (Senior, Burnaby North Secondary) | Gold Medal $27,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Claire Scrimini, Vanessa Scrimini Flocculation for the Population (Intermediate, Burnaby North Secondary) | |
| Selina Zhou (Senior, Collingwood School) | Silver Medal $10,500 in cash and scholarships |
| Nick Murray Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Skin Cancer Detection (Senior, Templeton Secondary) | Silver Medal $21,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Catherine Diyakonov (Junior, Lord Byng Secondary) | Bronze Medal $1,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Rory Wimberley Utility Stability: The Effectiveness of Self-Built Camera Stabilizers (Junior, St Thomas Aquinas) | Silver Medal $2,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Jason Chen Value-added Phytochemical Cocktail from Inedible Dragon Fruit Peel (Senior, St George’s School) | Gold Medal $26,000 in cash and scholarships |
| Andy Jia Kang Luo Waste Nothing: A Future for the Microbial Electrolysis Cell (Intermediate, Gladstone Secondary) | Silver Medal $2,000 in cash and scholarships |
