Congratulations to the team of students who represented the Greater Vancouver Region at the 2025 Canada-Wide Science Fair, hosted in Fredericton, New Brunswick, from June 1-6.

 

The awards below were announced on June 5 to students from the Greater Vancouver region:

Junior (Grade 7 – 8)

Ronin Faber and Willem Vuurmans, West Point Grey Academy | Quiet propellers for marine conservation
Excellence Award – Bronze Junior (Medal and certificate)
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Visionary Award – Junior ($500 cash and certificate)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($1000 Entrance Scholarship)

Neo Chan, St John’s School | Sign-O-Lingo
Excellence Award – Silver Junior (Medal and certificate)
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association Award – Junior ($500 cash and certificate)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Silver Medallist ($2000 Entrance Scholarship)

Intermediate (Grade 9 – 10)

Xiuming Li and Zixin Wang, Collingwood School | The Plastic Brain: Examining BDNF via Age, BMI, Sex, Depression, and Acute Exercise for TBI Research
Excellence Award – Gold Intermediate (Medal and certificate)
Challenge Award – Health and Wellness Intermediate ($750 cash and certificate)
Youth Can Innovate Award –  Intermediate ($750 cash, a presentation award and a certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Gold Medallist ($5,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Gold Medallist ($4000 Entrance Scholarship)

Riya Dua, R C Palmer Secondary | A Novel Approach to Plastic Waste Degradation and Bioelectricity Generation via Microbial Fuel Cells
Excellence Award – Bronze Intermediate (Medal and certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($3,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($1000 Entrance Scholarship)

Christopher Lin, Home Schooled | Modeling Human Movement: ML-Driven Biomechanical Analysis of Throwing Motion Using BiLSTMs
Excellence Award – Bronze Intermediate (Medal and certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($3,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($1000 Entrance Scholarship)

Grace Lee, York House School | Novel Application of Nanozymes For Improved Dual Species Biofilm (S. aureus & C. albicans) Inhibition
Excellence Award – Gold Intermediate (Medal and certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Gold Medallist ($5,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Gold Medallist ($4000 Entrance Scholarship)

Angie Liu and Elias Kennedy, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary | Hydrogel-Based Contact Lenses as Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Systems
Excellence Award – Bronze Intermediate (Medal and certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($3,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($1000 Entrance Scholarship)

Jora Singh Nahal, University Hill Secondary | A Novel AI-Powered Voice-Controlled Cross-Platform Computer Accessibility App
Excellence Award – Silver Intermediate (Medal and certificate)
S.M. Blair Family Foundation Award – Intermediate ($750 cash and certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Silver Medallist ($4,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Silver Medallist ($2000 Entrance Scholarship)

Justin (Jiaxing) Guo, St George’s School | Development of a High Efficiency Low-Fouling Physicochemical Filter for Micro/Nano-Sized Microplastics in Post-Secondary Treatment Wastewater Effluent
Excellence Award – Silver Intermediate (Medal and certificate)
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Visionary Award – Intermediate ($750 cash and certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Silver Medallist ($4,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Silver Medallist ($2000 Entrance Scholarship)

Sriroopa Vijayanarayanan, Alpha Secondary | The Effects of the APOBEC3B Enzyme on Gene Expression related to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Excellence Award – Bronze Intermediate (Medal and certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($3,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($1000 Entrance Scholarship)

Senior (Grade 11 – 12)

Dewey Liang, David Thompson Secondary | Identification of Novel Gene Signatures for Chemotherapy Response Prediction in Cancer Patients
Excellence Award – Gold Senior (Medal and certificate)
Dalhousie University Faculty of Science Entrance Scholarship – Senior Gold Medalist ($5000 Entrance Scholarship)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Gold Medallist ($5,000 Entrance Scholarship)
UBC Science (Vancouver) Entrance Award – Senior Gold Medallist ($4000 Entrance Award)
University of New Brunswick Canada-Wide Science Fair Scholarship – Senior Gold Medallist ($5000 Entrance Scholarship)
University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship – Senior Gold Medallist ($4,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Gold Medallist ($4000 Entrance Scholarship)

Lucas Wang, Burnaby North Secondary | Probing Galaxy Disk Sizes Using the Largest Ever Catalogue of Ca II Absorbers
Excellence Award – Gold Senior (Medal and certificate)
Challenge Award – Aerospace Senior ($1,000 cash and certificate)
Youth Can Innovate Award – Senior ($1,000 cash, a presentation award and a certificate)
Youth Can Innovate Award – Senior (An additional $7,000 cash award and certificate)
Dalhousie University Faculty of Science Entrance Scholarship –  Senior Gold Medalist ($5000 Entrance Scholarship)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Gold Medallist ($5,000 Entrance Scholarship)
UBC Science (Vancouver) Entrance Award – Senior Gold Medallist ($4000 Entrance Award)
University of New Brunswick Canada-Wide Science Fair Scholarship – Senior Gold Medallist ($5000 Entrance Scholarship)
University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship – Senior Gold Medallist ($4,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Gold Medallist ($4000 Entrance Scholarship)


Angelina Hang and Noah Oliver Pang, Vancouver Technical Secondary | Novel Cost-Effective Method of Producing Regenerated Cellulose Fibers
Excellence Award – Silver Senior (Medal and certificate)
Dalhousie University Faculty of Science Entrance Scholarship – Senior Silver Medalist ($2500 Entrance Scholarship)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Silver Medallist ($4,000 Entrance Scholarship)
University of New Brunswick Canada-Wide Science Fair Scholarship – Senior Silver Medallist ($2500 Entrance Scholarship)
University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship – Senior Silver Medallist ($2,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Silver Medallist ($2000 Entrance Scholarship)

Owen Qu, West Point Grey Academy | FLARE: Optimization of Gradient Descent
Excellence Award – Bronze Senior (Medal and certificate)
The Actuarial Foundation of Canada Award – Senior ($1,000 cash and certificate)
Mount Allison University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($3,000 Entrance Scholarship)
University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship – Senior Bronze Medallist ($1,000 Entrance Scholarship)
Western University Entrance Scholarship – Bronze Medallist ($1000 Entrance Scholarship)

A full list of the results can be found here.