2019 York Region District School Board/York Region Science & Technology Fair Award Winners

Industrial Textiles Award for Physical and Material Sciences, Intermediate/Senior Category​

  • Bioengineering a Kidney: Creating the Optimal Microenvironment for Stem Cells, Ziyu (Maggie) Li and Natalie Yuen

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Award

  • Make Every Drop of Water Count, Fatima Saadatfard

Home Innovation Award

  • Semipermeable Slime Waterfall, Chloe Wong, Richelle Antonythasan

Industrial Textiles Award for Junior Physical and Material Sciences

  • Hydrogen: Future Fuel, Taijeme Capell, Logan Capell

LSRCA Award

  • Solar-Powered Water Filter, Isabella Chana

Royal Astronomical Society

  • A Privatized Solution to Public Asteroids, Andy Gong, Vasily Shugaev

Science Exploration Summer Camp (Jr)

  • Astala-yeasta Plastic, Sakina Abbas, Sabiha Dhalla

STEM Minds Build It Award Junior

  • Open Source Robotic Arm, William Jiang

STEM Minds Using Technology Innovation Award Junior

  • Bees; And how we can save them, Isadora Wallace, Holly McClelland

Ted Rogers Innovation Award

  • Homeless Health Tracker, Muhammad Yousuf Abbas

The Environment Award

  • When Solar Panels are Free of Charge, Ray Wang, Martin He

U of Ottawa Entrance Scholarships

  • Anthocyanins: A Natural Deterrent to Carcinogenesis, Muhammad Yaseen Abbas

Vladimir Verdansky Award

  • SustAInable Farming, Dylan Markandaier

Worley Parsons Award Engineers of Tomorrow Award

  • How will using fluid technology increase the efficiency of TEGs?, Kim Guo, Mikael Haji

York University Entrance Scholarship

  • A novel approach to alleviate oxidative stress in Daphnia magna by D-limonene, Ahmed Nadeem

YRSTF Biology Award

  • 3D Printed Finger Splint, James Inouye

YRSTF Chemistry Award

  • Hydrogen, the fuel of the future, Braden Rolland, Matthew Zullo

YRSTF Communication and Presentation Award

  • Which Material Absorbs Sound The Most, Darren Chu

YRSTF Physics and Engineering Award

  • WATCH++, Catherine Nicole Makarytchev

Honourable Mentions:

  • Semipermeable Slime Waterfall, Chloe Wong, Richelle Antonythasan
  • Hydrogen: Future Fuel, Taijeme Capell, Logan Capell
  • Biofuel for the Future, Amna Ali, Amna Kazmi
  • Removal of Dioxins from Factory Production Emissions, Michael  Capuano, David Jiang
  • Car Crash Into Physics, Sophie Ng
  • The Dry Cell That Accels, The Hyperloop, Alysha Selvarajah
  • Methane re-MOO-ver, Angela  Zhang, Celine Kwan
  • Operation, Alex Chou, Alex Wang
  • StudentManagement.exe, Julian Fisla, Paolo Tremonti
  • Which Fruit Makes the Best Battery?, William English, Justin Gao
  • Possible Ways to Slow Down Aging, Dasha Sukhina
  • Decision Based on Design, Chelsea Wong

Bronze Medals: 

  • Open Source Robotic Arm, William Jiang
  • Homeless Health Tracker, Muhammad Yousuf Abbas
  • When Solar Panels are Free of Charge, Ray Wang, Martin He
  • WATCH++, Catherine Nicole Makarytchev
  • The Rise of Allergies in Canada - Why It Is Occurring and How To Stop It, Jin Schofield
  • Sustainable Infrastructure for the Future of Urban Development, Karin Qian
  • Hydrogen, Gabriel Apostolide, Noah  Vander Kooij
  • Making the Invisible; Visible, Viona Etemadi, Elisha Victoria  Kieser
  • Ever played DNA?, Aysha Khan
  • Out of the Way Alzheimer's, Nutraceuticals to the Rescue!, Rafia Nadeem
  • Bioengineering a Kidney: Creating the Optimal Microenvironment for Stem Cells, Ziyu (Maggie) Li, Natalie Yuen
  • Bio-considerate Prosthetic Conductors, Mark (Chun Qi) Wu, Stephen (Xiren) Wang
  • Solar Disinfection Of Water In Developing Countries, Lauren Daunt
  • Salinization Reduction, Sonia Farzanfar
  • Preventing Electromagnetic Radiation, Aidan Clarke, Ryan Goodfellow
  • Don't Stress Meowt, Sarvnaz Alemohammad, Cassidy Leung
  • Conductivity and Cost Comparison of Renewable Fuel Cell Technology, Maya Thayalan
  • Nutritoms: Saving the World, One Diatom at a Time, Jocelyn Liu, Sophie Live Tan
  • Can the Blind Spot go away, Stephanie Kniazeva, Cassie McGuire
  • StudentSafe - Bully prevention and immediate student help thorough technology, Stevon Anton
  • Easy Charge, Alexander Khawja
  • The Not-so-Sunny Side of Sunscreen, Jatynne Raj
  • Navigation except you're not confused about street names, Damian Ivtchenko

Silver Medals:

  • Novel insights into Cytokinin Functions in pants: Characterizing Arabidopsis thaliana Mutants, Guntaas Kaur
  • Make Every Drop of Water Count, Fatima Saadatfard
  • Solar-Powered Water Filter, Isabella Chana
  • A Privatized Solution to Public Asteroids, Andy Gong, Vasily Shugaev
  • Astala-yeasta Plastic, Sakina Abbas, Sabiha Dhalla
  • SustAInable Farming, Dylan Markandaier
  • How will using fluid technology increase the efficiency of TEGs?, Kim Guo, Mikael Haji
  • 3D Printed Finger Splint, James Inouye
  • Hydrogen, the fuel of the future, Braden Rolland, Matthew Zullo
  • Which Material Absorbs Sound The Most, Darren Chu
  • Filterino, The Easy Vacuum Distilation For Third World Countries, Ben Stan, Daksh Malhotra
  • What You See Might NOT Be What It Is -- String Theory and Extra Dimensions, Alyssa Qian
  • Incrementum Maximus: Creating a Program to Enhance Academic Success, Ramzi Aaouatif
  • A Novel Approach to Cure Aging, Sanjay Selvaraj Manivasagam
  • B.P.A Testing, Azadeh Hemani
  • Soft Robotics Prosthetic Design, Artem Sotnikov, Jonathan Xu
  • Can Fractal Dimension Diagnose Cardiac Diseases?, Yagmur  Ozturk
  • Do plants grow better in LED light or sunlight?, Maria Oprea, Sophia Nazari
  • Novel Approach To Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Decomposition Through Bioremediation, Ian Tong Pan
  • An Essential Approach Towards Conquering Leukemia, Haarini Suntharalingam
  • Bacteria Under Attack, Malika Peera
  • The Faults of Road Salts, Alena  Qin, Eva Long
  • Exploration of the Use of Patient Exhalation as the Insufflation Gas in Laparoscopic Surgery, Harrison Gao
  • How Much Fat Does It have?, Lucy Liu
  • Bees; And how we can save them, Isadora Wallace, Holly McClelland

Winners and CWSF participants: 

  • Anthocyanins: A Natural Deterrent to Carcinogenesis, Muhammad Yaseen Abbas
  • A novel approach to alleviate oxidative stress in Daphnia magna by D-limonene, Ahmed Nadeem
  • BioGrade Yeast: Biomanufacturing with Antifreeze-Yeast on Mars,Patricia Rea
  • Fruit vs. Plastic, Pauline Botros
  • A novel and eco-friendly method to remove oil and other contaminants using fruit peels, Mira Bhattacharya
  • Synthetic Violacein: Exploring the Power of Designer Pharmaceuticals in Real World, Harry Parmar
  • Candies to Dye For, Safia Zaman
  • Hey We Love Your Water Bottle!!!!, Anchali Ramesh
  • Efficacy of Quaternary Ammonium Antimicrobial Application on Textile Substrates, Katelyn Wang
  • An Integrated Glucose Meter Using Sweat Diagnostic Technology For Diabetics, Anna Tymofyeyeva