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A Thunder Bay student is being recognized for her look at how the pandemic has impacted our mental health.
Mehar Mago is a Grade 10 student at Superior Collegiate and Vocational Institute, and will be submitting her project to the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa this upcoming week.
She says it’s an honour to get the Ted Rogers Innovation Award for her science project, which recognizes science, technology, engineering and mechanical (STEM) projects that have commercial potential.
“I did the project because it was something I was genuinely passionate about, and I was curious about it. It feels really good to have your work recognized because it was a lot of work,” she says.
Dehydration sensor shines at science fair
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A Grade 10 student at Medicine Hat High School is one of 61 high school students across Canada to be recognized for completing a STEM project that has commercial potential.
Debasri Jena won the Ted Rogers Innovation Award with her dehydration sensor project at the Kiwanis Southeast Alberta Regional Science Fair.
“It was pretty cool, I actually had no clue until someone said, ‘Hey you should check your email’ and I found out that I won,” said Jena with a laugh. “I was really excited.”
Jena took extracts from different fruits and vegetables including blueberries, red cabbage and turnips and turned them into a solution. She then put pH buffers in to test the colour change between them and used a substance called agar in place of human skin.
Author of the article: Steph Crosier
Publishing date: May 13, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read Olivia O Driscoll, 16, a Grade 11 student at Leahurst College, at her home in Kingston on Wednesday. O Driscoll won numerous awards at the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Science Fair. Photo by Steph Crosier /The Whig-Standard
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A local 16-year-old robotics competitor walked away from the regional science fair with roughly $1,300 cash, a $1,000 scholarship to the University of Ottawa and a ticket to the national competition.
Olivia O’Driscoll, a Grade 11 student at Leahurst College, presented “A novel skill assessment method for central venous catheterization,” to the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Science Fair virtually at the end of March.