2013 Award Winners

Congratulations ERSF 2013 Award Winners!

Award Name Prize Name Project Title Student(s) School Name
Grade 4 Bronze How A Hovercraft Works Tyler Bourbeau, Nathaniel Del Rosario St. Angela
Grade 4 Bronze What Causes Fatigue Sydney Comfort Argyll Home School Centre
Grade 4 Silver Why is insulation important to humans and animals? Heidi Vallevand St. Jerome
Grade 4 Bronze A Moldy Breadxperiment Skye Sekulich Busby School
Grade 4 Bronze Mini Explosions Zachery Strydhorst Busby School
Grade 4 Gold How much air is in water? Nathan Shaw Ronald Harvey Elementary
Grade 4 Silver Pretty Paint Erika Huppertz, Camryn Wiegand Westlock Elementary School
Grade 5 Bronze Programming the Kinect for Scratch Layla Reddy Alternative Learning Program
Grade 5 Bronze Clean The Oil Slick Abishek Reghuram Aurora Charter School
Grade 5 Silver Paw Personality Sophia Wojdak Avonmore School
Grade 5 Gold What’s Eating Your Teeth Mitchell Fong Stratford School
Grade 5 Bronze Hydroponics Go Green! Sydney Mah Stratford School
Grade 5 Bronze How Greasy Are Your Potato Chips Ciara Henry, Mahek Sawhney Stratford School
Grade 5 Silver Aerodynamics Xander Jacobs Alternative Learning Program
Grade 6 Silver Dark Side of CO2 Filip Radovic Aurora Charter School
Grade 6 Bronze Light Pollution Keaton Comfort Argyll Home School Centre
Grade 6 Bronze Pet Smart Camille Williams, Shayla Woodcock St. Mary School
Grade 6 Gold WiFi Mutation Noah Meynen Stratford School
Grade 6 Bronze Smokin’ Plants! Adam Damen, Zaheen Mahmoud Stratford School
Grade 6 Bronze Taking Time Anna Maidens Woodhaven Middle School
Grade 6 Silver Bioplastic Breakdown Teron Callihoo Barrhead Elementary School
Junior Silver Ready, Set, Remove It! Avnit Dhanoa, Hannah Parmar Avonmore School
Junior Bronze Sponges Vs. Cloths Jordyn Reed Avonmore School
Junior Bronze Are Tea & M in Team? Daniel Fung Parkview School
Junior Bronze EYE SPY! Abhijeet Singh Tempo School
Junior Gold High Test Hothouse Erica Grohn, Megan Ong Aurora Charter School
Junior Gold Skype on Wheels Neelam Reddy Alternative Learning Program
Junior Bronze Electrifying the Oil Sands Rojine McVea Aurora Charter School
Junior Silver Sports Drink Science! Syed Shahmeer Shams Aurora Charter School
Junior Silver To Eat Or Not To Eat Debunking the 5 second rule Jacquelyn Engstrom, Madyson Matthews Avonmore School
Junior Silver Dancing With the Bacterium Niranjana Unnikrishnan Aurora Charter School
Junior Gold Nu ou Non? Jonathan Farr Sir George Simpson Junior High
Junior Silver Is my oil filter effective? Siddhant Gautam Richard F Staples Secondary School
Junior Bronze Time Justin Powley New Horizons School
Junior Bronze Recreation with Levitation Andrea Franko Oliver School
Junior Bronze Thought In Progress Jason Cheung, Amy Phung Parkview School
Senior Gold A BAC platform for engineering oncolytic reovirus Abdullah Farooq Argyll Home School Centre
Senior Silver What the Hay Chloe Braget, Grace Lawrence Avonmore School
Senior Silver Tech Attack Danielle Dunlop, Peyton McKeaveney Avonmore School
Senior Bronze H2O: Friend or Foe? Gurkeerat Handa , Damanjeet Parmar Aurora Charter School
Senior Bronze Generate The Power Akshita Chandok, Manvir Dhaliwal Aurora Charter School
Senior Bronze The Smarter Way to Go Rameen Imran Aurora Charter School
Senior Gold Shaking Up the Salt Intake Tamara Radovic Aurora Charter School
Senior Bronze Increasing Islet Viability for Transplantation Zosia Prus-Czarnecka Old Scona School
Senior Bronze Drug Discovery Targets for IBD Kierstyn Sahagun, Reshma Sirajee Harry Ainlay School
Senior Gold Brighten the Taste Qasim Ali Old Scona School
Senior Silver Water Works Saleen Shivji Aurora Charter School
Senior Silver Horsebeats Kaija Thiessen, Jordan Turco Avonmore School
Senior Bronze Colour Coated Memories Ashley Chung, Marlene Rong Parkview School
Best Project in a Medically-Related Field Award A BAC platform for engineering oncolytic reovirus Abdullah Farooq Argyll Home School Centre
Best Project in a Medically-Related Field Honourable Mention Beware bacteria: Garlic antibiotic could get you! Shreya Pillai Aurora Charter School
Community & Rural Zone Award Award What Causes Fatigue Sydney Comfort Argyll Home School Centre
Community & Rural Zone Award Honourable Mention OSTEOPOROSIS Rebecca WJ Le, Jennifer Lim Parkview School
The Fortis Femella Health Sciences Award Honourable Mention Don’t Forget! Jasleen Bajwa Aurora Charter School
The Fortis Femella Health Sciences Award Award What the Hay Chloe Braget, Grace Lawrence Avonmore School
Alberta Institute for Human Nutrition Award Honourable Mention Are Tea & M in Team? Daniel Fung Parkview School
Alberta Institute for Human Nutrition Award Award Brighten the Taste Qasim Ali Old Scona School
Human Biology Award Honourable Mention Shaking Up the Salt Intake Tamara Radovic Aurora Charter School
Human Biology Award Award Killing Effect of Vanillin on Oral Pathogens Kaya Persad, Karen Wisheu McKernan School
Genome Alberta Genomics Award – EL Honourable Mention The Scoop on Stroop Chitwan Sohi Aurora Charter School
Genome Alberta Genomics Award – EL Award Forensic Parents Shehla Choudhary, Zanib Pannu Avonmore School
Genome Alberta Genomics Award – JR Honourable Mention EYE SPY! Abhijeet Singh Tempo School
Genome Alberta Genomics Award – JR Award Battle of the Antioxidants Mariko Kramer, JuliAnn Thai Parkview School
Genome Alberta Genomics Award – SR Award A BAC platform for engineering oncolytic reovirus Abdullah Farooq Argyll Home School Centre
Genome Alberta Genomics Award – SR Honourable Mention Beware bacteria: Garlic antibiotic could get you! Shreya Pillai Aurora Charter School
Professional Biologists Award Honourable Mention Clean The Oil Slick Abishek Reghuram Aurora Charter School
Professional Biologists Award Award How to Save the Caribou Ryan Dick, Ethan Sadownik St. Angela
Vision Science Award Award How The Human Eye Works Nash Hodgetts Barrhead Elementary School
Vision Science Award Honourable Mention EYE SPY! Abhijeet Singh Tempo School
Behavioral Sciences Research Award Award Shaking Up the Salt Intake Tamara Radovic Aurora Charter School
Behavioral Sciences Research Award Honourable Mention Brighten the Taste Qasim Ali Old Scona School
Behaviour Science Award Award Brighten the Taste Qasim Ali Old Scona School
Carolla Christie Excellence in Communications Award Award How To Recycle Styrofoam The Green Way Arya Das, Ysabelle Kmiec Aurora Charter School
Carolla Christie Excellence in Communications Award Honourable Mention A BAC platform for engineering oncolytic reovirus Abdullah Farooq Argyll Home School Centre
Waste Management Award Award Bioplastic Breakdown Teron Callihoo Barrhead Elementary School
Waste Management Award Honourable Mention Fuelastic Waste Rohan Walia Aurora Charter School
Clean Air, Water and Land Award – EL Award Clean The Oil Slick Abishek Reghuram Aurora Charter School
Clean Air, Water and Land Award – EL Honourable Mention Snow Conveyor Aleiandro Isla Rainbow Lake School
Clean Air, Water and Land Award – JR/SR Honourable Mention Electrifying the Oil Sands Rojine McVea Aurora Charter School
Clean Air, Water and Land Award – JR/SR Award Is my oil filter effective? Siddhant Gautam Richard F Staples Secondary School
Petroleum Society Educational Trust Fund Award Award Oilers Beat the Flames Sarah Abba, Khristine Bautista Avonmore School
APEGA Award – EL Honourable Mention Light Pollution Keaton Comfort Argyll Home School Centre
APEGA Award – EL Award Bioplastic Breakdown Teron Callihoo Barrhead Elementary School
APEGA Award – JR Award Skype on Wheels Neelam Reddy Alternative Learning Program
APEGA Award – SR Honourable Mention Oilers Beat the Flames Sarah Abba, Khristine Bautista Avonmore School
APEGA Award – SR Award Get-A-Grip Kristina Brooks Avonmore School
ASM Material Science Award – JR/SR Award The Forkoff! Eva Anderson St. Nicholas
ASM Material Science Award – JR/SR Honourable Mention Get-A-Grip Kristina Brooks Avonmore School
IEEE Award of Excellence Honourable Mention Skype on Wheels Neelam Reddy Alternative Learning Program
IEEE Award of Excellence Award The Smarter Way to Go Rameen Imran Aurora Charter School
NAIT Women in Technology Award Award Generate The Power Akshita Chandok, Manvir Dhaliwal Aurora Charter School
NAIT Women in Technology Award Honourable Mention Supercalifragilisticxpialidocious Chemiluminescenc Jade LeDuc, Emily Zhang Harry Ainlay School
Chemical Institute of Canada Award Honourable Mention Clean The Oil Slick Abishek Reghuram Aurora Charter School
Chemical Institute of Canada Award Award How To Recycle Styrofoam The Green Way Arya Das, Ysabelle Kmiec Aurora Charter School
Taylor Memorial Senior Chemistry Award Honourable Mention Free Radicals vs. Anti-Oxidants Dannica Andriet Kate Chegwin School
Taylor Memorial Senior Chemistry Award Award Totally Radical Ivo Verhoeven New Horizons School
ACPA Alberta Chemist Award Award Generate The Power Akshita Chandok, Manvir Dhaliwal Aurora Charter School
ACPA Alberta Chemist Award Honourable Mention Killing Effect of Vanillin on Oral Pathogens Kaya Persad, Karen Wisheu McKernan School
ACPA Rick Dillen Memorial Award, sponsored by the Canadian Crude Quality Technical Association Award Electrifying the Oil Sands Rojine McVea Aurora Charter School
ACPA Rick Dillen Memorial Award, sponsored by the Canadian Crude Quality Technical Association Honourable Mention Is my oil filter effective? Siddhant Gautam Richard F Staples Secondary School
E.H. Gowan Physics Award of Excellence Honourable Mention Time Justin Powley New Horizons School
E.H. Gowan Physics Award of Excellence Award Could Tesla Change The World Again? Kieran Mastel Sacred Heart School
RASC Astronomy Award – EL Award Light Pollution Keaton Comfort Argyll Home School Centre
RASC Astronomy Award – EL Honourable Mention Black Holes Ahmed Abdulhafid, Calum Holman Barrhead Elementary School
RASC Astronomy Award – Jr./Sr. Award The Fireworks of Space Kayla Andrade, Ksenia Gorbatenko Aurora Charter School
RASC Astronomy Award – Jr./Sr. Honourable Mention Planetary Dust Mark Farinas, Shail Kochhar Aurora Charter School
Team Edmonton Finalist Skype on Wheels Neelam Reddy Alternative Learning Program
Team Edmonton Finalist Nu ou Non? Jonathan Farr Sir George Simpson Junior High
Team Edmonton Finalist A BAC platform for engineering oncolytic reovirus Abdullah Farooq Argyll Home School Centre
Team Edmonton Finalist Tech Attack Danielle Dunlop, Peyton McKeaveney Avonmore School
Team Edmonton Finalist Shaking Up the Salt Intake Tamara Radovic Aurora Charter School
Team Edmonton Finalist Brighten the Taste Qasim Ali Old Scona School
Team Edmonton Finalist Water Works Saleen Shivji Aurora Charter School