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2017 Special Award Winners
Back to Winners main pageDerek Wong Memorial
(4209) Bacterial Products as an Immune Function Enhancer: A Potential Way to Help Fight Cancer
Student: Josh Cheng
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
Adhir Bagchi Memorial Award for Excellence in Health Science
Plaque + $100(3206) The Effect of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners on 3T3 L1 Cells as a Model for Early Obesogenic Development
Student: Jasmine Cheng
School: Acadia Junior High
Kids' New Horizons
Cash ($50 cash)(4704) ReefHub - A Novel Autonomous Coral Reef Conservation System
Students: Derek Yin , Himanshu Sharma
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
(2311) Plants Love Worms, The Effect of Compost Worms on Enclosed Terrarium
Student: Aryan Patel
School: Acadia Junior High
ASM International Award
Plaque and Gift Card - First(2712) Electricity and Metals
Student: Luisa Velandia
School: Acadia Junior High
(3710) Recycled Materials for Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
Student: Matthew Betke
School: St Boniface Diocesan
Manitoba Association for Medical Laboratory Science Award
Certificate and cash ($100 cash)(1209) Friend or Foe: Effects of EMF on Microorganisms
Student: Nathaniel Casiano
School: Ecole South Pointe School
(2217) Sugar Shocker
Student: Madison Lang
School: The Laureate Academy
(3509) The Inhibitive Effects of Syzygium Aromaticum on the Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease
Student: Sandeep Mangat
School: University of Winnipeg Collegiate
Certificate and cash ($200 cash)
(4209) Bacterial Products as an Immune Function Enhancer: A Potential Way to Help Fight Cancer
Student: Josh Cheng
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology, MB Section Award
($100 cash)(2508) Determining The Concentration Of Allura Red 40 in Beverages By Spectrocopy
Student: Adi Groumoutis
School: Balmoral Hall School
Labels Unlimited Award
($100 cash)(2610) Plastic From What? Alternatives to plastic
Student: Phol Jin Beloy
School: Hugh John Macdonald
Peak of the Market Award
($100 cash)(2312) A Lemon Lesson
Student: Saadia Saqib
School: Alhijra Islamic School
Granny's Poultry Cooperative Ltd Award
Certificate and $100(4207) Characterization of anti-microbial properties of different spices
Student: Silvanus Kolade
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
Food Development Centre Award
Certificate ($100 cash)(3201) The effects of faba bean fractions on glycemia, appetite, and metabolism using novel food products
Student: Rohan Sethi
School: St. Paul's High School
Vantage Foods Award
Certificate and cash ($100 cash)(3102) The Effects of Conventional Thawing on Meat Quality
Student: Priscilla Kolade
School: Acadia Junior High
University of Manitoba Department of Food Science Award
Certificate ($100 cash)(3204) Should You Trust Your Tongue? Analyzing Oil and Fatty Acids Composition in Potato Chips
Student: Anita Fan
School: Acadia Junior High
University of Manitoba Department of Human Nutritional Sciences Award
Certificate ($100 cash)(2205) The Antidiabetic Effect of Some Plants
Student: Dalia Hassanin
School: Balmoral Hall School
Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation Award
Certificate and Cash ($75 cash)(2222) Benefits of Drinking Water that has been stored in Copper Utensil overnight
Student: Rhea Gupta
School: St John's Ravenscourt
Certificate and Cash ($100 cash)
(3605) Effects of Birth Control on Daphnia Population Growth
Student: Anna Le
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
Certificate and Cash ($50 cash)
(1602) Wetland Matters
Student: Dennis Rylie dela Cruz
School: Holy Ghost School
Certificate and Cash ($150 cash)
(3609) Which Fertilizer? Minimizing Algal Growth
Student: Gabriella Lampman
School: St Boniface Diocesan
Sani Marc Award
Cash and Certificate ($100 cash)(3705) Developing an Interdigitated Capacitive Sensor to Evaluate the Quality of Food Solutions
Student: Evan Chan
School: Grant Park High School
(2202) Natural Home Remedies and You
Student: Ysabelle Tankeko
School: Holy Ghost School
(1214) Food Dyes: Safe Additive or Toxic Poison
Student: Akhil Nadithe
School: St Maurice School
Richardson Milling
Cash and certificate ($100 cash)(3101) Rice Weevils do not like peas
Student: Ethan Fox
School: Acadia Junior High
Food and Beverage Manitoba Award
Certificate and cash ($100 cash)(1204) Know Your Fats Keep Your Heart Healthy
Student: Anna Mhira Abdon
School: Holy Ghost School
Richardson Foundation for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals.
Cash and certificate ($100 cash)(3201) The effects of faba bean fractions on glycemia, appetite, and metabolism using novel food products
Student: Rohan Sethi
School: St. Paul's High School
(2216) What H2O does my Kefir Prefer?
Student: Avery Skog
School: Morris School
Canada Compound Western Limited Award
Certificate ($100 cash)(1211) Effect of Cooking Temperature on the Antibacterial Activities of Household Food Spices
Students: Basim Mohamed , Adam Tarek Elagamy
School: Victor Mager
Manitoba Association of Home Economists Award
Certificate and $50(2503) Pajamas on FIRE!!! Effect of Fabric Softeners on the Flammability of Children's clothing
Student: Neil Remmeil Perez
School: Holy Ghost School
(3201) The effects of faba bean fractions on glycemia, appetite, and metabolism using novel food products
Student: Rohan Sethi
School: St. Paul's High School
(3206) The Effect of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners on 3T3 L1 Cells as a Model for Early Obesogenic Development
Student: Jasmine Cheng
School: Acadia Junior High
engineers Geoscientsts Manitoba Award
cash ($325 cash)(4701) Iron-Man: Powered exoskeletons on a budget
Student: Ariel Lezen
School: Shaftesbury High School
(4702) Electric longboard
Students: Caleb Turon , Matthew Hewlett
School: Linden Christian School, Shaftesbury High School
cash ($200 cash)
(3502) The breakdown of Lignocellulosic biomass into glucose for potential energy production
Students: Fatima Saqib , Laiba Saqib
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
(3510) What is the Most Effective Method to Desalinate Water?
Student: Darin Ng
School: Acadia Junior High
(3710) Recycled Materials for Fiber-Reinforced Concrete
Student: Matthew Betke
School: St Boniface Diocesan
Cash ($150 cash)
(2704) Electro Hydrogen Car
Student: Mayura Manivasan
School: Grant Park High School
(2605) Save the Pumpkins: Paper, the Next Generation
Student: Katie Skwarchuk
School: Ecole River Heights
(2712) Electricity and Metals
Student: Luisa Velandia
School: Acadia Junior High
(2714) Energy Generating BackPack
Student: Tharindu Kottegoda
School: Bruce Middle School
(2724) lux in terebris
Student: Ella Hechter
School: Grant Park High School
cash ($100 cash)
(1601) Burning the Best Biofuel
Student: Magdalena Slivinski
School: Holy Ghost School
(1603) Building Eco-Friendly Water Filters
Student: Celina Casiano
School: Ecole South Pointe School
(1705) Magnetic Car Plug
Students: Evan Goetze , Graeme Williams
School: La Barriere Crossing
(1718) Plane Wars: The Search for the Perfect Plane
Student: Cameron Madden
School: Holy Cross
(1717) Creating A Sustainable Waterfilter With Banana Peels
Student: Umair Razi
School: Dalhousie Elementary
University of Winnipeg Mathematics and Statistics Award
Cash Award ($100 cash)(3201) The effects of faba bean fractions on glycemia, appetite, and metabolism using novel food products
Student: Rohan Sethi
School: St. Paul's High School
(1303) Fibonacci Fun
Student: Sam Di Cresce
School: Brock Corydon
Excellence in Communication
Certificate, membership, Display in Gallery and cash ($100 cash)(4704) ReefHub - A Novel Autonomous Coral Reef Conservation System
Students: Derek Yin , Himanshu Sharma
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
(2605) Save the Pumpkins: Paper, the Next Generation
Student: Katie Skwarchuk
School: Ecole River Heights
(2714) Energy Generating BackPack
Student: Tharindu Kottegoda
School: Bruce Middle School
Certificate, membership, Display in Gallery
(3603) is there a relation in the levels of antibiotic resistant genes found in bacteria and phage
Student: Excellence Madukwe
School: Acadia Junior High
Canadian Medical and Biiological Engineering Award
Membership, invitation to present, cash ($100 cash)(4701) Iron-Man: Powered exoskeletons on a budget
Student: Ariel Lezen
School: Shaftesbury High School
(2208) MAC Could Save Your Life
Student: Graydon Strachan
School: Grant Park High School
(4210) Transcranial direct current stimulation as a visual prosthetic to those with acquired blindness
Students: Caleb Turon , Matthew Hewlett
School: Linden Christian School, Shaftesbury High School
Membership and Invitation to present
(2101) how to precieve afterimages
Student: Adham El-sherbini
School: Acadia Junior High
(2601) The Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation on Living Organisms
Student: Danielle Marie Borbajo
School: Holy Ghost School
(2204) UV-C Disinfection: How UV-C light affects growth at different exposure times
Student: Gabriela Todescan
School: Balmoral Hall School
(3702) Muscles Alive
Student: Ethan Lin
School: St John's Ravenscourt
(4703) Low-cost circular polarized antenna for detection of breast tumours
Student: Jordan Bowley
School: Shaftesbury High School
(2225) The Effect of Nail Polish on Pulse Oximetry
Students: Hope Appelmans , Aliya Kabani
School: St John's Ravenscourt
(4705) Improving Artificial Neural Network Accuracy by Optimizing Hyperparameters through Gradient Descent
Student: David Owen Randall
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
Special Engineering Related Award
CAsh ($50 cash)(2605) Save the Pumpkins: Paper, the Next Generation
Student: Katie Skwarchuk
School: Ecole River Heights
(1716) The Future Looks Bright
Student: Jeremy Sarvis
School: Prairie Rose Elementary
Special Engineering Related Award
($200 cash)(2711) Applying data mining to analyze past stock trends and create algorithm to forecast stock
Student: Sparsh Agrawal
School: Acadia Junior High
Special Engineering Related Award
($200 cash)(4703) Low-cost circular polarized antenna for detection of breast tumours
Student: Jordan Bowley
School: Shaftesbury High School
Special Engineering Related Award
Cash ($100 cash)(1703) Hydropower: How Can I Use Water To Turn On My Rink Lights?
Student: Thomas Gale
School: Linwood Elementary
Tetra Tech Engineering Award
($150 cash)(3704) Material Swings
Student: Noah Davidson
School: Collège Sturgeon Heights Collegiate
Analytical Sciences Award
Cash and Plaque(3205) The Discovery of Natural Antibiotics, testing the antimicrobial activity of edible plants
Student: Pavit Narhan
School: Acadia Junior High
(4501) An Integrated Approach to Antibiotic Drug Discovery
Student: Tooba Razi
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
(3511) The Examination of Antimicrobial Activity in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Student: Galli Kubari
School: St Boniface Diocesan
Honorable Mention - Certificates
(3606) Testing Tap Water Quality of Selected Households at Little Saskatchewan FN
Student: Keaton Shorting
School: Little Saskatchewan School
CSBE/SCGAB Biosystems Engineering Award
Certificate, T-shirt and $200 ($100 cash)(3705) Developing an Interdigitated Capacitive Sensor to Evaluate the Quality of Food Solutions
Student: Evan Chan
School: Grant Park High School
(4203) Medium optimization for bioplastic production in non-sterile conditions using Pseudomonas Putida
Student: Jacob Harvey
School: Grant Park High School
Churchill Northern Studies Centre Award for Northern Reseatch
Certificate and cash ($250 cash)(1602) Wetland Matters
Student: Dennis Rylie dela Cruz
School: Holy Ghost School
Fort Whyte Alive Award
Membership to Fort Whyte(1602) Wetland Matters
Student: Dennis Rylie dela Cruz
School: Holy Ghost School
Women's Health Research Foundation of Canada Award
Trophy(1223) It's Not What It Looks Like
Student: Daniel Scott
School: Prairie Rose Elementary
(2225) The Effect of Nail Polish on Pulse Oximetry
Students: Hope Appelmans , Aliya Kabani
School: St John's Ravenscourt
(3217) Rapid Response
Students: Jeremy Desrosiers , Brosnan Vilar
School: St Boniface Diocesan
Mineral Resources Award
Trophy(4704) ReefHub - A Novel Autonomous Coral Reef Conservation System
Students: Derek Yin , Himanshu Sharma
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
(2601) The Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation on Living Organisms
Student: Danielle Marie Borbajo
School: Holy Ghost School
(3601) The bioremediation of nitrate in fertilizer-contaminated soil
Student: Jakob McKenna
School: Grant Park High School
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Astronomy Award
Meteorite and cash ($50 cash)(2723) What is a Nebula?
Student: Shubham Kishore
School: Highbury School
Certificat of Excellence in Meterology
Certificate and $50 cash(1702) How Clouds Form
Student: Sophia Weiser
School: Strathmillan
Excellence in Oceanography
Gift card(1611) Ocean Acidification
Students: Leslie Wilson , Marxene San Jose
School: Prairie Rose Elementary
Save-On-Foods Award
Cash ($250 cash)(4704) ReefHub - A Novel Autonomous Coral Reef Conservation System
Students: Derek Yin , Himanshu Sharma
School: Fort Richmond Collegiate
(1601) Burning the Best Biofuel
Student: Magdalena Slivinski
School: Holy Ghost School
(3705) Developing an Interdigitated Capacitive Sensor to Evaluate the Quality of Food Solutions
Student: Evan Chan
School: Grant Park High School
(2724) lux in terebris
Student: Ella Hechter
School: Grant Park High School
WISE Award
Gift Bag(2601) The Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation on Living Organisms
Student: Danielle Marie Borbajo
School: Holy Ghost School
(3603) is there a relation in the levels of antibiotic resistant genes found in bacteria and phage
Student: Excellence Madukwe
School: Acadia Junior High
(2405) Reward or Punishment: Which is the better Motivator?
Student: Heidi Renaud
School: Acadia Junior High
(3102) The Effects of Conventional Thawing on Meat Quality
Student: Priscilla Kolade
School: Acadia Junior High
(2613) The Effect Of Soil On Substance pH
Student: Urfa Razi
School: Acadia Junior High
(3511) The Examination of Antimicrobial Activity in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
Student: Galli Kubari
School: St Boniface Diocesan
Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium Water Award
Certificate, cash, 1/2 day on ship NAMAO ($100 cash)(3601) The bioremediation of nitrate in fertilizer-contaminated soil
Student: Jakob McKenna
School: Grant Park High School
Manitoba Neorscience Network
Certificate and cash ($100 cash)(2227) Cellular mechanism of memory in the mammalian brain
Student: Saif Bahri
School: Ecole South Pointe School
(1405) Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Student: Elisabeth Thiessen
School: Linden Christian School
(3509) The Inhibitive Effects of Syzygium Aromaticum on the Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease
Student: Sandeep Mangat
School: University of Winnipeg Collegiate
Certificate
(4201) Peptide-Directed Selective Knockdown of Misfolded SOD1 by Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy
Student: Justin Lin
School: St John's Ravenscourt
APS Science Fair Award
Certificate, t-shirt, physiological researcher lapel pin, resource packet and book for teacher(4201) Peptide-Directed Selective Knockdown of Misfolded SOD1 by Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy
Student: Justin Lin
School: St John's Ravenscourt