Grade 12 researcher wins top honours in Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada finals at National Research Council, Ottawa Janelle Tam, a Grade 12 student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, was awarded the $5,000 first prize by an impressed panel of eminent Canadian scientists assembled at the Ottawa headquarters of the National Research Council of Canada. Thirteen brilliant [...]
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SBCC National Awards ceremony: Tuesday, May 8, 1 pm EDT, National Research Council Headquarters, Ottawa TORONTO, ON, May 1, 2012 – After months of preparation, research and collaboration with top university mentors, an elite group of 13 high school whiz kids from across the country will be in Ottawa May 7-8 competing for Canada’s ultimate [...]
Atlantic Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge 2012 Ground-breaking research by two 16-year-old Conception Bay students, contributing to global research in the field of biofuel production, earned top prize in the Atlantic competition of the “2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada (SBCC) held in Moncton New Brunswick at the Université de Moncton. Grade 11 students Jared Trask and Kaitlyn [...]
Given all the negatives surrounding fossil fuels it’s not surprising that so many researchers are pursuing alternative sources of energy to power homes, cars and industry. Count Jared Trask, 17 and Kaitlyn Stockley, 16 among them. They’re Grade 11 students at Holy Spirit High School in Conception Bay South, near St. John’s in Newfoundland, and [...]
Explaining her choice of a research topic for her Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge entry, 17-year-old Ottawa-area student Romina Hassanzadeh says cancer recently touched her personally when her mom’s aunt died of breast cancer. She resolved to help fight the disease. The Grade 12 researcher from Kanata’s All Saints Catholic High School puzzled together several pieces of [...]
Given all the negatives surrounding fossil fuels it’s not surprising that so many researchers are pursuing alternative sources of energy to power homes, cars and industry. Count Jared Trask, 17 and Kaitlyn Stockley, 16 among them. They’re Grade 11 students at Holy Spirit High School in Conception Bay West, near St. John’s in Newfoundland and [...]
Canada’s next big technological and health breakthrough might come from cellulose, the woody material found in trees that enables them to stand. Cellulose is made up of tiny nanoparticles called nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) that are measured in thousandths of the width of a human hair. Only recently discovered, Waterloo’s 16 year old Janelle Tam is [...]
The end of cheap oil also means the end of low-cost plastics. So, a Winnipeg student’s method to make a low-cost bio-plastic could be a very timely discovery. Nearly all plastics today are derived from petroleum and “there is an urgent need to find alternatives,” says 16-year old Ella Thomson, a Grade 11 student at [...]
The high percentage of plastic at a waste transfer station last summer caught the eye and the concern of two young visiting Vancouverites, Miranda Wang, 18, and Jeanny Yao, 17. They became particularly interested in phthalates – an additive that makes plastic durable and flexible for use in a wide range of consumer products, from [...]