Congratulations to the 2021 Canada-Wide Science Fair winners from the GVRSF!
This year, 17 students from the GVRSF won the Grand Award to participate in the Virtual Canada Wide Science Fair hosted by Carleton University in Ottawa Ontario. Along with the experience of presenting their projects to experts and peers on the national stage, virtual touring of sites in our Nations Capital, and making new friends across the country and internationally, Team GVRSF brought home numerous awards and prizes! The full breakdown is as follows:
- $15,000 in cash prizes and equivalent (trips, boot camps, etc)
- $80,000 in Scholarships
- 5 Gold medals
- 5 Silver medals
- 5 Bronze medals
| Ethan Chase Wave Energy (Junior, Prince of Wales Secondary School, Vancouver) | Silver Medal $2000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario Renewable Energy Award ($500) |
| Alexa Foster Biochar: Then and Now (Junior, RM Grauer Elementary, Richmond) | |
| Carson Dalpke Passive solar heating – Ancient civilizations used it, we can do it too! (Junior, Kerrisdale Elementary, Vancouver) | Bronze Medal $1000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Tara Zhan MotionDx: Creating an Effective and Affordable Smart Pill Bottle (Junior, David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver) | Bronze Medal $1000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Veronica Guo A Novel Approach to Decomposing Polystyrene (Junior, York House School, Vancouver) | Gold Medal $4000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario Challenge Award – Environment and Climate Change Intact Climate Change Resilience Award ($500) |
| Viduni Siriwardana Synthesize Energy from Recycled Aluminum Beverage Cans (Junior, David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver) | Bronze Medal $1000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Matthew Moi Do Compostable Bags Live Up To Their Name? (Junior, David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver) | Silver Medal $2000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Jonathan Leung A Comparison of 2 Health Assessment Methods for Prunus cerasifera ‘Atropurpurea’ (Junior, Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver) | Bronze Medal $1000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Jing Quan Peng CoroSheild: A Physical Distancing Evaluator for the Visually Impaired (Junior, David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver) | Gold Medal $4000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Darren Wang The Stability and Flight Trajectory of Badminton Shuttlecocks (Intermediate, Prince of Wales Secondary School, Vancouver) | |
| Maya Honda-Granirer Coagulation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Microplastics: Which Coagulant Works Best? (Intermediate, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, Vancouver) | Silver Medal $2000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Gabbie Lee Tree Volt (Intermediate, Prince of Wales Secondary School, Vancouver) | Silver Medal $2000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Justin Du Characteristics Generation of Canadian PV Arrays by Machine Learning (Intermediate, David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver) | Bronze Medal $1000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Henry Zhao DIY Quadruped Robot with Rough Terrain Traversal (Intermediate, Collingwood School, West Vancouver) | Gold Medal $4000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario Ted Rogers Innovation Award (full scholarship to participate in the Youth Science Canada/York University STEM Entrepreneur Virtual Bootcamp in August 2021) Youth Can Innovate Award ($750) |
| Ethan Chan Spinal Solution: Developing an electronic device to detect cerebrospinal fluid in the emergency room (Senior, St John’s School, Vancouver) | Gold Medal $5000 Scholarship – Dalhousie University Faculty of Science $4000 Scholarship – University of British Columbia Faculty of Science $5000 Scholarship – University of New Brunswick $4000 Scholarship – University of Ottawa $4000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario Canadian Society for Clinical Chemists Award ($1,000) S.M. Blair Family Foundation Award ($1,000) Youth Can Innovate Award ($1,000) Youth Can Innovate Award ($7,000) |
| Wendy Fang PollenGPS III: A Novel Airborne Pollen Monitoring System (Senior, Moscrop Secondary School, Burnaby) | Silver Medal $2500 Scholarship – Dalhousie University Faculty of Science $2000 Scholarship – University of British Columbia Faculty of Science $2500 Scholarship – University of New Brunswick $2000 Scholarship – University of Ottawa $2000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
| Catherine Diyakonov Battling Oxidative Stress: The Effects of Nano-Antioxidants on Saccharomyces cerevisiae’s Response to Oxidizing Agent Exposure (Senior, Lord Byng Secondary School, Vancouver) | Gold Medal $5000 Scholarship – Dalhousie University Faculty of Science $4000 Scholarship – University of British Columbia Faculty of Science $5000 Scholarship – University of New Brunswick $4000 Scholarship – University of Ottawa $4000 Scholarship – University of Western Ontario |
