2017 York Region District School Board/York Region Science & Technology Fair Award Winners
Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority Award:
- Blooming Algae: Raya Mirkheshti, Fania Koutsoulianos
YRSTF CHEMISTRY:
- Homemade Defrosters and Antifreeze, Jonathan Xie
YRSTF BIOLOGY:
- Can an Artificial Pancreas Help Solve Diabetes, Jonathan Shenouda
YRSTF PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING:
- Improving The Efficiency of a Refrigerator and Producing Free Hot Water, Leo Graziosi
YRSTF COMMUNICATION AND PRESENTATION AWARD:
- Ionica, Cassandra Lee
Helix Camp Award:
- Efficient Design of Disposable Cough Filtration and Virus Containment Device: Katelyn Wang
SCi-X Camp Award:
- Sugar or Spice, Zoha Sojoudi, Khadija Manji
The Home Innovation Award:
- Thermal Energy Storage For Homes: Balaji Venkatesh
Junior Innovation Award:
- Sleep... Let's Get to the Brux of the Matter!, Ariz Babul
Junior Innovation Award:
- The Ultimate Dryer, Marcus Chan
Senior Innovation Award:
- The Minimal Genome Project - Mycoplasma laboratorium, Christina McCabe
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Award:
- Muscle Sense, Andrew Pun
Vernadsky Award:
- Beat the heat, Catherine Tse
Enviroanalysis Environment Award:
- Tardigrades as Bioindicators of Air Quality, Ryan Kum
Cournoyea/Paz-Soldan Peer Award:
- Improving The Efficiency of a Refrigerator and Producing Free Hot Water, Leo Graziosi
The Minimal Genome Project:
- Mycoplasma laboratorium: Christina McCabe
York University Entrance Scholarship:
- Tardigrades as Bioindicators of Air Quality: Ryan Kum
University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship:
- The Minimal Genome Project - Mycoplasma laboratorium, Christina McCabe
Honourable Mention
- Focus, Time! (This Game Helps People with ADHD), Sanduli Alwis, Erica Lo
- Exploring The Roots Of Self Esteem, Varshaa Maxwell
- The Paint's Too Fast, Emily Chu, Maggie Leung
- Future Eco Friendly Car Engine, Risha Reddy, Arya Mane
- Instant Cold, Max Haim, Nicole Haim
- Microplastics In A Freshwater Body, Jenna Cheng
- Does History Truly Repeat Itself?, Lauren Kim, Tobi Adesipo
- Do I Make you Nervous?, Elika Boland, Maryam Khan
- Homemade Defrosters and Antifreeze, Jonathan Xie
- The Mpemba Effect - Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?, Marwa Waziri, Sofia Sarwary
- Testing for Insulative Properties of Environmentally Friendly Waste Materials, Natalie Conrad
- Inhibiton of leukemia cell growth by pausing ATP release and P2X receptor signaling, Bhavana Pagidela
BRONZE
- Toxic Silver, Suraj Sudheendra
- Is Your Brain Tougher Than Smell?, Jennifer Gao, Amitis Shahbazian
- The Hand-y Filter, Chelsea Zhang, Meera Chopra
- Using Voice Technology to do Web Searches and Form Filling, Brendan Chan
- Magical Cinnamon: Preventing Alzheimer's Disease by making cells aware of Insulin, Aeron Humaid
- Temperature, H2O2 and Catalase, Taylor Chan
- Project D.O.T.- Disinfecting Our Toothbrushes, Megan Chow
- Activation Energy at Work, Ryan Dick
- pH of Gas Stations Surrounding Soil, Jessica Lam
- Improving The Efficiency of a Refrigerator and Producing Free Hot Water, Leo Graziosi
- A healthy milkshake for a cancer-free life, Haarini Suntharalingam
- Food for Thought, Ayanna Kara, Fatemeh Ilkhani
- Beat the heat, Catherine Tse
- The Effects of Sugar, Amino Acid, and Metals on the Breast Cancer Cell Line: MDA-MB-468 Amina Parven
- Heating your Home, Maya Thayalan
- Conversion of water to rocket fuel and then back, Ben Stan
- Grow Bright in Nutrients, Christy Ho
- Solar Desalination, Kishan Vethanayagam, Ethan Woo
- The Quake Effect, Alexandru Muresan, Logan McCann
- Centrifugal Water Pumping System, Sagaana Sivathason
- How do Different Styles of Music Affect your Writing?, Eden Shefsky, Samantha Winnick
- Conductivi-TEA: Evaluating Temperature's Effects on the Mean Change in Conductivity Rates of Red Tea, Mohammed Said
SILVER
- Tardigrades as Bioindicators of Air Quality, Ryan Kum
- Competition and Academic Performance, Alston Lo
- Texting and Talking: Does Cell Phone Activity Affect Reaction Time and Driving Outcomes?, Matteo Andreetta
- Organic Water Filter, Derrick Cui
- Muscle Sense, Andrew Pun
- Game Treatment for Arthritis and Parkinson's Disease, Ahmed Nadeem
- The Minimal Genome Project - Mycoplasma laboratorium, Christina McCabe
- Thermal Energy Storage For Homes, Balaji Venkatesh
- Water, Zayn Ali Dhalla
- Keep Calm and Don't Stress, Abeeha Shaban
- Can an Artificial Pancreas Help Solve Diabetes, Jonathan Shenouda
- Oil Spill Recovery, Jinal Rajawat
- Mycoremediation of Cellulose Acetate, Asiya Kazmi
- Plants In Motion, Alya Fancy
- How Much Microplastic Pollution Is In The Soil?, Kristen Yee
- The Paramecium Predicament, Aditi Sandhu, Natalie Messih
- Project: REPEAT Amey Dhamgunde, Ian Tong Pan
- THE FLASH FIRE LOG: THE SCIENCE OF COMBUSTION, Benjamin Abdulnour
GOLD: Travel Award Winners/ Innovation York Mentorship Canada Wide Science Fair
- The Ultimate Dryer, Marcus Chan
- Sleep... Let's Get to the Brux of the Matter!, Ariz Babul
- A Comparative Analysis of Hydro, Aero, and Fogponics on Plant Growth, Austin Wu, Kamron Zaidi
- Sugar or Spice, Zoha Sojoudi, Khadija Manji
- Efficient Design of Disposable Cough Filtration and Virus Containment Device, Katelyn Wang
- VIOLA-BAC; POWER OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY IN REAL WORLD, Harry Parmar
- Fuelling our Future with...Waste?, Brandon He
- Who Do I Prefer?, Shirothie Puwaneswaran
- A New Vision For Diabetic Patients, Hareshan Suntharalingam