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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New ways to develop better medications for cancer and other diseases is an important ongoing medical objective. Andy Le and Nikola Victorov, Grade 11 students at Edmonton’s Old Scona Academic High School, focused on just such a process.
Depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other forms of mood disorder represent a very large portion of all drug prescriptions. The mystery of how these drugs work intrigued two Toronto-area Northern Secondary School students, who decided to try creating an artificial environment to test the effects of different brain-related medications.
Alcohol — nearly always ethanol — is contained in most anti-bacterial hand sanitizers and swabs. But are they really as good as they could be? Many household surface cleaning products use another kind of alcohol called isopropanol.
Rui Song has ambitions. Of course, you’d expect that of the first ever repeat winner of Saskatchewan’s Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge, the youngest ever competitor (14) at the national SBCC in 2010 and, having won 1st place two years ago, the first ever to try for the national championship again.