The recently concluded Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023, held in Edmonton, witnessed the triumph of over 56 of Canada's brightest young scientists as they showcased their groundbreaking projects and competed for prestigious prizes
Vancouver, BC - (May 23rd, 2023) - The Science Fair Foundation BC is thrilled to announce the winners from BC and the Yukon for the 2023 Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF).
Out of the talented pool of participants, 56 students representing 12 regional science fairs were selected as finalists, earning the opportunity to advance to the Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF). Among these remarkable individuals, 36 emerged as winners, representing the Yukon and BC, their outstanding achievements and contributions shining brightly.
The Canada-Wide Science Fair showcased the achievements of 220 young scientists from across the country; their unwavering spirit of curiosity, creativity, and perseverance epitomizes the essence of scientific inquiry.
BC and Yukon winners are:
The Actuarial Foundation of Canada Award
Intermediate
Sponsor: The Actuarial Foundation of Canada
$750 cash and certificate
Reine Huang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Detecting and Preventing Human Falling with Lateral Stability”
Canadian Botanical Association Award
Junior
Sponsor: Canadian Botanical Association
$500 cash and certificate
Sebastian Audet – Pacific Northwest – BC
“Seymour Lake is having a Floating Heart attack”
Canadian Botanical Association Award
Senior
Sponsor: Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists
$1,000 cash and certificate
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis”
Digital Moment Innovation Award
Junior
Sponsor: Digital Moment
$500 cash and certificate
Ali Soufi, Antony Zhang – South Fraser – BC
“Refugee Pal”
Intact Climate Change Resilience Award
Intermediate
Sponsor: Intact Financial Corporation
$750 cash and certificate
Fayhaa Kafi – South Fraser – BC
“The Orange Brick 2.0”
Nanotechnology for Sustainable Society Award
Junior
Sponsor: Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
$500 cash and certificate
Ryyan Hammoud – South Fraser – BC
“Smart Naloxone Kit”
Statistical Society of Canada Award
Intermediate
Sponsor: Statistical Society of Canada
$750 cash and certificate
Jonathan Leung – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Survey of Spider Diversity at the University of British Columbia Farm”
Excellence Award - Bronze
Junior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Sebastian Audet – Pacific Northwest – BC
“Seymour Lake is having a Floating Heart attack”
Jasmine Chow – West Kootenay & Boundary – BC
“Can chip bags be used as an emergency blanket?”
Deepraj Singh Gill – Fraser Valley – BC
“How a Commercial Jetliner Functions”
William Li – West Kootenay & Boundary – BC
“Centrifugal Space Fitness Center”
Khafri Mau – Greater Vancouver – BC
“The First Step to Growing Plants on Mars”
Hanna Ryan – Yukon Stikine – YT
“What’s the best way to dry your hands?”
Excellence Award - Bronze
Intermediate
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Kaitlyn Chan – Vancouver Island – BC
“Greening the Flames: Investigating the abilities of plants to reduce the impact of wildfires”
Swas Ghosh – Northern British Columbia – BC
“Green Pools of CO2: The Effects of CO2 on Household Plants”
Angelina Hang, Noah Oliver Pang – Greater Vancouver – BC
Ali Soufi, Antony Zhang – South Fraser – BC“Turning Algae Into Fibers: The Solution to Textile Waste”
Reine Huang – Greater Vancouver – BC
Detecting and Preventing Human Falling with Lateral Stability
Nimish Jain – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Highly Evolved Lip Learning mOdel (HELLO): A Novel Machine Learning Model for Accurate Lipreading.”
Katharine Morley – Vancouver Island – BC
“Plastered Plants Defeat Drought: Exploring the effects of ethanol on drought
resistance in plants”
Excellence Award - Bronze
Senior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Justin Du – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Interrsect: Aggregated Note Summarization by Machine Learning”
Evan Howells – Yukon Stikine – YT
“Flight of the Bumble Bee: Comparing pollen foraging patterns of bumble bees and honey bees in Yukon”
Adara Shilling – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Plastic Roots”
Rodin Shokravi, Kevin Yuan – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Novel System: Replicating Materials’ Arithmetic Mean Height Using LRAs & Piezo Elements”
Aaron Zhao – Greater Vancouver – BC
“ExoTremor: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed Exoskeleton that Suppresses Hand Tremors in Movement Disorder Patients”
Excellence Award - Silver
Junior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Ryyan Hammoud – South Fraser – BC
“Smart Naloxone Kit”
Nara Harvey – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Biological Solution to Phosphate and Nitrate Pollution”
Excellence Award - Silver
Intermediate
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Maryam Khanum – Northern British Columbia – BC
“Feasibility Assessment of MFC to Treat Oil and Gas Produced Water and Generate Electricity”
Justin Peng – Greater Vancouver – BC
Atmos: “A Neural Edge-Cloud Visual to Auditory Spatial Augmentation Device for the Visually Impaired”
Ann Wang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Battling Bacterial Biofilms”
Justin Yu – Fraser Valley – BC
“Zap the Lead Problem! Cost-effective and Immediate Electrochemical Pipe Scale Accelerator”
Excellence Award - Silver
Senior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Keanu Chan – East Kootenay – BC
“PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)”
Jonathan Gong – South Fraser – BC
“COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image Classification and Improved U-Net Segmentation”
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis”
Prabhnoor Sidhu – Central Interior BC – BC
“Mitigating the Effects of Debris Flows: Part Two”
Evan Warburton – Vancouver Island – BC
“The Dual Dipole Radio Telescope”
Excellence Award - Gold
Junior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Justin Guo – Greater Vancouver – BC
“What Method of Meat Thawing Results in Least Bacterial Contamination?”
Andrei Marti – Vancouver Island – BC
“Sweet Scores”
Excellence Award - Gold
Intermediate
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Veronica Guo – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Biological Photovoltaics: Testing Algae for the Optimal Battery”
Fayhaa Kafi – South Fraser – BC
“The Orange Brick 2.0”
Jonathan Leung – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Survey of Spider Diversity at the University of British Columbia Farm”
Excellence Award - Gold
Senior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Medal and certificate
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
“Auto-Pend Lab”
Challenge Award - Curiosity and Ingenuity
Senior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Certificate
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
"Auto-Pend Lab”
Challenge Award - Disease and Illness
Junior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Certificate
Andrei Marti – Vancouver Island – BC
“Sweet Scores”
Challenge Award - Energy
Intermediate
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Certificate
Veronica Guo – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Biological Photovoltaics: Testing Algae for the Optimal Battery”
Sanofi Biogenius Canada Award
Junior
Sponsor: Sanofi Canada
$500 cash and certificate
Soleil Brookes – Pacific Northwest – BC
“Moss Filters: How They Affect Air Quality”
Intermediate
Sponsor: Sanofi Canada
$750 cash and certificate
Ann Wang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Battling Bacterial Biofilms”
Youth Can Innovate Award
Intermediate
Sponsor: Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation
$750 cash, presentation award and a certificate
Veronica Guo – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Biological Photovoltaics: Testing Algae for the Optimal Battery”
Youth Can Innovate Award
Senior
Sponsor: Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation
$1,000 cash award
Keanu Chan – East Kootenay – BC
“PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)”
Jonathan Gong – South Fraser – BC
“COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image Classification and Improved U-Net Segmentation”
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis”
Youth Can Innovate Award
Senior
Sponsor: Gwyn Morgan & Patricia Trottier Foundation
Additional $7,000 cash award
Keanu Chan – East Kootenay – BC
“PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)”
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis:
Platinum Award - Discovery
Junior
Sponsor: Youth Science Canada
Crystal award
Andrei Marti – Vancouver Island – BC
“Sweet Scores”
Dalhousie University Faculty of Science Entrance Scholarship
Senior
Sponsor: Dalhousie University, Faculty of Science
Senior Gold Medallist - $5000 Entrance Scholarship
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
“Auto-Pend Lab”
Dalhousie University Faculty of Science Entrance Scholarship
Senior
Sponsor: Dalhousie University, Faculty of Science
Senior Silver Medallist - $2500 Entrance Scholarship
Keanu Chan – East Kootenay – BC
“PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)”
Jonathan Gong – South Fraser – BC
“COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image Classification and Improved U-Net Segmentation”
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis”
Prabhnoor Sidhu – Central Interior BC – BC
“Mitigating the Effects of Debris Flows: Part Two”
Evan Warburton – Vancouver Island – BC
“The Dual Dipole Radio Telescope”
UBC Science (Vancouver) Entrance Award
Senior
Sponsor: University of British Columbia (Vancouver)
Senior Gold Medallist - $4000 Entrance Award
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
“Auto-Pend Lab”
University of Alberta Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor:
Bronze Medallist - $1,500 Entrance Scholarship
Sebastian Audet – Pacific Northwest – BC
“Seymour Lake is having a Floating Heart attack”
Kaitlyn Chan – Vancouver Island – BC
“Greening the Flames: Investigating the abilities of plants to reduce the impact of wildfires”
Keanu Chan – East Kootenay – BC
“PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)”
Jasmine Chow – West Kootenay & Boundary – BC
“Can chip bags be used as an emergency blanket?”
Swas Ghosh – Northern British Columbia – BC
“Green Pools of CO2: The Effects of CO2 on Household Plants”
Deepraj Singh Gill – Fraser Valley – BC
“How a Commercial Jetliner Functions”
Jonathan Gong – South Fraser – BC
“COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image Classification and Improved U-Net Segmentation”
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis”
Justin Guo – Greater Vancouver – BC
“What Method of Meat Thawing Results in Least Bacterial Contamination?”
Veronica Guo – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Biological Photovoltaics: Testing Algae for the Optimal Battery”
Ryyan Hammoud – South Fraser – BC
“Smart Naloxone Kit”
Angelina Hang, Noah Oliver Pang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Turning Algae Into Fibers: The Solution to Textile Waste”
Nara Harvey – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Biological Solution to Phosphate and Nitrate Pollution”
Evan Howells – Yukon Stikine – YT
“Flight of the Bumble Bee: Comparing pollen foraging patterns of bumble bees and honey bees in Yukon”
Reine Huang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Detecting and Preventing Human Falling with Lateral Stability”
Nimish Jain – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Highly Evolved Lip Learning mOdel (HELLO): A Novel Machine Learning Model for Accurate Lipreading.”
Fayhaa Kafi – South Fraser – BC
“The Orange Brick 2.0”
Maryam Khanum – Northern British Columbia – BC
“Feasibility Assessment of MFC to Treat Oil and Gas Produced Water and Generate Electricity “
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
“Auto-Pend Lab”
Jonathan Leung – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Survey of Spider Diversity at the University of British Columbia Farm”
William Li – West Kootenay & Boundary – BC
“Centrifugal Space Fitness Center”
Andrei Marti – Vancouver Island – BC
“Sweet Scores”
Khafri Mau – Greater Vancouver – BC
“The First Step to Growing Plants on Mars”
Katharine Morley – Vancouver Island – BC
“Plastered Plants Defeat Drought: Exploring the effects of ethanol on drought
resistance in plants”
Justin Peng – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Atmos: A Neural Edge-Cloud Visual to Auditory Spatial Augmentation Device for the Visually Impaired”
Hanna Ryan – Yukon Stikine – YT
“What’s the best way to dry your hands?”
Adara Shilling – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Plastic Roots”
Rodin Shokravi, Kevin Yuan – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Novel System: Replicating Materials’ Arithmetic Mean Height Using LRAs & Piezo Elements “
Prabhnoor Sidhu – Central Interior BC – BC
“Mitigating the Effects of Debris Flows: Part Two”
Ann Wang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Battling Bacterial Biofilms”
Evan Warburton – Vancouver Island – BC
“The Dual Dipole Radio Telescope”
Justin Yu – Fraser Valley – BC
“Zap the Lead Problem! Cost-effective and Immediate Electrochemical Pipe Scale Accelerator”
Aaron Zhao – Greater Vancouver – BC
“ExoTremor: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed Exoskeleton that Suppresses Hand Tremors in Movement Disorder Patients”
University of Manitoba Entrance Scholarship
Senior
Sponsor: University of Manitoba
Senior Gold Medallist - $5000 Entrance Scholarship
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
“Auto-Pend Lab”
University of New Brunswick Canada-Wide Science Fair Scholarship
Senior
Sponsor: University of New Brunswick
Gold Medallist - $5000 Entrance Scholarship
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
“Auto-Pend Lab”
University of New Brunswick Canada-Wide Science Fair Scholarship
Senior
Sponsor: University of New Brunswick
Silver Medallist - $2500 Entrance Scholarship
Keanu Chan – East Kootenay – BC
“PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)”
Jonathan Gong – South Fraser – BC
“COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image Classification and Improved U-Net Segmentation”
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis”
Prabhnoor Sidhu – Central Interior BC – BC
“Mitigating the Effects of Debris Flows: Part Two”
Evan Warburton – Vancouver Island – BC
“The Dual Dipole Radio Telescope”
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
“Auto-Pend Lab”
University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship
Senior
Sponsor: University of Ottawa
Senior Silver Medallist - $2000 Entrance Scholarship
Keanu Chan – East Kootenay – BC
“PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)”
Jonathan Gong – South Fraser – BC
“COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image Classification and Improved U-Net Segmentation”
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis”
Prabhnoor Sidhu – Central Interior BC – BC
“Mitigating the Effects of Debris Flows: Part Two”
Evan Warburton – Vancouver Island – BC
“The Dual Dipole Radio Telescope”
University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship
Senior
Sponsor: University of Ottawa
Senior Bronze Medallist - $1000 Entrance Scholarship
Justin Du – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Interrsect: Aggregated Note Summarization by Machine Learning”
Evan Howells – Yukon Stikine – YT
“Flight of the Bumble Bee: Comparing pollen foraging patterns of bumble bees and honey bees in Yukon”
Adara Shilling – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Plastic Roots”
Rodin Shokravi, Kevin Yuan – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Novel System: Replicating Materials’ Arithmetic Mean Height Using LRAs & Piezo Elements”
Aaron Zhao – Greater Vancouver – BC
“ExoTremor: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed Exoskeleton that Suppresses Hand Tremors in Movement Disorder Patients”
Western University Scholarship
Sponsor: Western University
Gold Medallist - $4000 Entrance Scholarship
Justin Guo – Greater Vancouver – BC
“What Method of Meat Thawing Results in Least Bacterial Contamination?”
Veronica Guo – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Biological Photovoltaics: Testing Algae for the Optimal Battery”
Fayhaa Kafi – South Fraser – BC
“The Orange Brick 2.0”
Heather Kornylo – Northern Vancouver Island – BC
“Auto-Pend Lab”
Jonathan Leung – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Survey of Spider Diversity at the University of British Columbia Farm”
Andrei Marti – Vancouver Island – BC
“Sweet Scores”
Western University Scholarship
Sponsor: Western University
Silver Medallist - $2000 Entrance Scholarship
Keanu Chan – East Kootenay – BC
“PRecision Exospinal Constructive Innovative Stereotactic Evolution (PRECISE)”
Jonathan Gong – South Fraser – BC
“COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image Classification and Improved U-Net Segmentation”
Albert Guo – South Fraser – BC
“Alzheimer's in 16x16 Words: Transformers for Biomarker-Based Diagnosis”
Ryyan Hammoud – South Fraser – BC
“Smart Naloxone Kit”
Nara Harvey – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Biological Solution to Phosphate and Nitrate Pollution”
Maryam Khanum – Northern British Columbia – BC
“Feasibility Assessment of MFC to Treat Oil and Gas Produced Water and Generate Electricity”
Justin Peng – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Atmos: A Neural Edge-Cloud Visual to Auditory Spatial Augmentation Device for the Visually Impaired”
Prabhnoor Sidhu – Central Interior BC – BC
“Mitigating the Effects of Debris Flows: Part Two”
Ann Wang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Battling Bacterial Biofilms”
Evan Warburton – Vancouver Island – BC
“The Dual Dipole Radio Telescope”
Justin Yu – Fraser Valley – BC
“Zap the Lead Problem! Cost-effective and Immediate Electrochemical Pipe Scale Accelerator”
Western University Scholarship
Sponsor: Western University
Bronze Medallist - $1000 Entrance Scholarship
Sebastian Audet – Pacific Northwest – BC
“Seymour Lake is having a Floating Heart attack”
Kaitlyn Chan – Vancouver Island – BC
“Greening the Flames: Investigating the abilities of plants to reduce the impact of wildfires”
Jasmine Chow – West Kootenay & Boundary – BC
“Can chip bags be used as an emergency blanket?”
Justin Du – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Interrsect: Aggregated Note Summarization by Machine Learning”
Swas Ghosh – Northern British Columbia – BC
“Green Pools of CO2: The Effects of CO2 on Household Plants”
Deepraj Singh Gill – Fraser Valley – BC
“How a Commercial Jetliner Functions”
Angelina Hang, Noah Oliver Pang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Turning Algae Into Fibers: The Solution to Textile Waste”
Evan Howells – Yukon Stikine – YT
“Flight of the Bumble Bee: Comparing pollen foraging patterns of bumble bees and honey bees in Yukon”
Reine Huang – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Detecting and Preventing Human Falling with Lateral Stability”
Nimish Jain – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Highly Evolved Lip Learning mOdel (HELLO): A Novel Machine Learning Model for Accurate Lipreading”
William Li – West Kootenay & Boundary – BC
“Centrifugal Space Fitness Center”
Khafri Mau – Greater Vancouver – BC
“The First Step to Growing Plants on Mars”
Katharine Morley – Vancouver Island – BC
“Plastered Plants Defeat Drought: Exploring the effects of ethanol on drought
resistance in plants”
Hanna Ryan – Yukon Stikine – YT
“What’s the best way to dry your hands?”
Adara Shilling – Greater Vancouver – BC
“Plastic Roots”
Rodin Shokravi, Kevin Yuan – Greater Vancouver – BC
“A Novel System: Replicating Materials’ Arithmetic Mean Height Using LRAs & Piezo Elements”
Aaron Zhao – Greater Vancouver – BC
“ExoTremor: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed Exoskeleton that Suppresses Hand Tremors in Movement Disorder Patients”
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The Science Fair Foundation of BC is the largest volunteer science outreach network in the province, supporting science and technology education by inspiring curiosity through the Science Fair program. With over 1,500 science and technology educators and professionals volunteering as mentors, judges and science fair hosts, The Science Fair Foundation of BC’s Science Fair Program is recognized as one of the most successful in Canada.