Congratulations to the team of students who represented the Greater Vancouver Region at the Canada-Wide Science Fair hosted in Edmonton Alberta.

The following awards were announced on Thursday evening to students from the Greater Vancouver Region:

Khafri Mau – The First Step to Growing Plants on Mars
Bronze Medal
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$1000 Western University Scholarship

Angelina Hang, Noah Oliver Pang – Turning Algae Into Fibers: The Solution to Textile Waste
Bronze Medal
$1000 Western University Scholarship

Reine Huang – Detecting and Preventing Human Falling with Lateral Stability
Bronze Medal
The Actuarial Foundation of Canada Award (Sponsor: The Actuarial Foundation of Canada) – $750 cash and certificate
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$1000 Western University Scholarship

Nimish Jain – Highly Evolved Lip Learning mOdel (HELLO): A Novel Machine Learning Model for Accurate Lipreading.
Bronze Medal
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$1000 Western University Scholarship

Justin Du – Interrsect: Aggregated Note Summarization by Machine Learning
Bronze Medal
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$1000 University of Ottawa Scholarship
$1000 Western University Scholarship

Adara Shilling – Plastic Roots
Bronze Medal
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$1000 University of Ottawa Scholarship
$1000 Western University Scholarship

Rodin Shokravi, Kevin Yuan – A Novel System: Replicating Materials’ Arithmetic Mean Height Using LRAs & Piezo Elements
Bronze Medal
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$1000 University of Ottawa Scholarship
$1000 Western University Scholarship

Aaron Zhao – ExoTremor: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed Exoskeleton that Suppresses Hand Tremors in Movement Disorder Patients
Bronze Medal
$1000 University of Ottawa Scholarship
$1000 Western University Scholarship

Nara Harvey – A Biological Solution to Phosphate and Nitrate Pollution
Silver Medal
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$2000 Western University Scholarship

Justin Peng – Atmos: A Neural Edge-Cloud Visual to Auditory Spatial Augmentation Device for the Visually Impaired
Silver Medal
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$2000 Western University Scholarship

Ann Wang – Battling Bacterial Biofilms
Silver Medal
Sanofi Biogenius Canada Award (Sponsor: Sanofi Canada) – $750 cash and certificate
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$2000 Western University Scholarship

Justin Guo – What Method of Meat Thawing Results in Least Bacterial Contamination?
Gold Medal
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$4000 Western University Scholarship

Veronica Guo – Biological Photovoltaics: Testing Algae for the Optimal Battery
Gold Medal
Challenge Award – Energy
Youth Can Innovate Award (Sponsor: Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation) – $750 cash, presentation award and a certificate
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$4000 Western University Scholarship

Jonathan Leung – A Survey of Spider Diversity at the University of British Columbia Farm
Gold Medal
Statistical Society of Canada Award (Sponsor: Statistical Society of Canada) – $750 cash and certificate
$1500 University of Alberta Scholarship
$4000 Western University Scholarship

 

A full list of award winners is available here.