1st Place Project: Identification of Local Fungi Capable of Surviving on PAH Contaminated Soil (Mentor ~ Dr. David Overy, University of Prince Edward Island) NOTE: Will now represent PEI and advance to the SABC National event in Ottawa on May 9th and 10th The School Appreciation Award accompanies the 1st Place Prize = $2000 2nd [...]
April 2011
First place: $3,000 cash prize, $1,500 entrance scholarship to The University of Western Ontario and $500 entrance scholarship to the University of Waterloo. Vivienne Tam Project Title: Catch that Drug – The Biodegradable Nano-net Grade 12 Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Waterloo, ON Mentor: Dr. Michael Tam The University of Waterloo Second place: $2000 cash prize, $1,000 [...]
Ground-breaking research by a 17-year-old Coquitlam student who found a way to observe the effects of ethanol on early brain development in an intact and awake brain has earned him the top prize in the 2011 British Columbia sanofi-aventis BioTalent Challenge (SABC). Grade 12 student Vincent Ye from Dr. Charles Best Secondary School whose research [...]
Yasamin Mahjoub a grade 11 student from Sir Winston Churchill High School won the $2,000 first place prize with a study about “Protection against iron neurotoxicity by pregnancy-related hormones”. Dr. V.W. Yong of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary mentored Yasamin, throughout her research. Representing Calgary, Yasamin will present her research at the National [...]