Day 6: Special Awards Celebrations - Thursday May 16, 2013

With such a fine showing at the Special Awards Ceremony, optimism was abound for the next night's Grand Awards.  But for the moment, the team enjoyed the success and celebrated like Canadians do.  Party!  Curfew however was set at 11 pm with an early morning meeting time of 7 am set to prepare for breakfast before the Grand Awards.

The Eh Ring

Day 6: Special Awards Night - Thursday May 16, 2013

There was something else that was HOT in Phoenix other than the weather (104 degree F) ... so was TEAM CANADA!  We did exceptionally well for the first night of the awards, the Special Awards portion.

11 Awards ... $25,850 ... one Full University Tuition ... two CERN Full Expense Trips

Thanks to one of our alumni, Nicholas Schiefer (Team Canada 2012 and 2nd Best in Fair) and obviously one of our fans of Team Canada 2012 as he reported on facebook of our results prior to us returning to our hotel rooms ... we have the following results from Special Awards Night courtesy of Nicholas

For other curious alumni: here are the results of the special awards ceremony
http://www.societyforscience.org/document.doc?id=493 

And here are the results for Team Canada: 

American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists - Second Award of $1000
MI045 The Road to Novel Antibiotics 

Sarah Julia Hyslop, 17, Bishop Carroll High School, Calgary, Canada  

American Psychological Association - Second Award of $1000  BE041 Neural Plasticity: Novel Language Learning through Digital Technology

Adelina Corina Cozma, 17, Bayview Secondary School,  Richmond Hill, Canada

American Psychological Association - Third Award of $500  BE042 Improving Long-term Compliance to Life Saving Medications  

Avinash Kumar Pandey, 15, Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Waterloo, Canada 

ASU Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives - First Award of $7500  ME072 Mustard Oil as an Apicomplexan-targeting Drug Therapy for Plasmodium falciparum 

Jessie Leanne Preston MacAlpine, 17, Huron Park Secondary School, Woodstock, Canada

European Organization for Nuclear Research-CERN - All-expense paid trip   

EE064 A Novel Modular Repulsive Type Hybrid Magnetic Bearing for FES Systems  

Zeyu Liu, 17, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, Canada  

PH048 Creating PEAS: Portable Elemental Analysis System — Developing and Implementing a Novel Cold Cathode Source  

Jennifer Ann Csele, 17, Notre Dame College School, Welland, Canada  

Google Thinking Big Award of $10,000  PH048 Creating PEAS: Portable Elemental Analysis System - Developing and Implementing a Novel Cold Cathode Source  

Jennifer Ann Csele, 17, Notre Dame College School, Welland, Canada  

IEEE Computer Society - Third Award of $350  CS053 Mobile 

Vision: An Efficient Algorithm and Its Applications   

Fan Zhang, 18, Lisgar Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, Canada 

K. Soumyanath Memorial Award - First Award of $3000

EE064 A Novel Modular Repulsive Type Hybrid Magnetic Bearing for FES Systems  

Zeyu Liu, 17, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, Canada 

 

Sheikh Zayed Institute at Childrens’ National Medical Center - First Award of $2500  
ME088 Colorimetric Detection of Plasmodium falciparum via Aptasensor Technology  

Junyi (Sarah) Wu, 16, Assumption College School, Brantford, Canada   

West Virginia University - Renewable Tuition Scholarship Awards  PH048 Creating PEAS: Portable Elemental Analysis System - Developing and Implementing a Novel Cold Cathode Source 

Jennifer Ann Csele, 17, Notre Dame College School, Welland, Canada 

(I think I got all of them, but I was copying and pasting, so something might be wrong.)
Congrats to all of Team Canada! You're all awesome!

Day 6: At the Projects - Thursday May 16, 2013

For the record, these are the unofficial photos of our contestants at their projects

Videos of their Presentation will be uploaded soon 

TEAM CANADA IISEF-BASEF

Eisha Ahmed (17) Gr 12, Abbey Park High School, Oakville , ON

CB065  Ara h Peanuts, Proteins and Parasites

Sarah Flahrety, Gr 11, Westdale High School, Hamilton, ON

MI051  How Do Probiotic Bacteria Communicate with the Host?

Sarah Wu (16) Gr 11, Assumption College School, Brantford, ON

ME088  Colorimetric Detection of Plasmodium falciparum via Aptasensor Technology 

Captain Canada

Calvin Riederer (15) Gr 10, St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School, Oakville, ON

Student Observer

TEAM CANADA IISEF - MONTREAL

Eunice You (17) Gr 11, Laval Liberty High School, Laval, PQ

CB039  Shake Hands Over Cures, Not PD: Differentiation and Characterization of Dopaminergic Neurons Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Sophie Battat (14) Gr 9, The Study, Westmount, PQ

EE049  Soap - O -Matics

Julia London (16) Gr 10, Queen of Angels Academy, Dorval, PQ

EM029  Rain, Rain, Flush Away

TEAM CANADA IISEF - YSC

Ankita Saxena (16) Gr 11, Westmount Charter School, Calgary, AB

ME075  Beta-Amyloid in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Maya Burhanpurhar (14) Gr 9, Barrie District North Collegiate, Barrie, ON

PH047  The First Validation of the Physical Nature of the Time Integral of Distance

Jennifer Csele (17) Gr 11, Notre Dame High School, Welland ON

PH048 Creating PEAS: Portable Elemental Analysis System - Developing and Implementing a Novel Cold Cathode Source  

Minuoja Chandramohan (16) Gr 11, Ecole Marguerite-DeLajemmerais, Montreal, PQ

ME071  Cocoa Polyphenol Rxtract Inhibits Interferon-Gamma Production in Murine Splenocytes

Arjun Nair (16) Gr 11, Webber Academy, Calgary, AB

ME074  A Synergistic Approach in Treating Cancer via Photothermal Therapy and HSP90 Inhibition

Jessie Macalpine (17) Gr 12, Huron Park Secondary School, Woodstock, ON

ME072  Mustard Oil as an Apicomplexan-targeting Drug Therapy for Plasmodium falciparum 

Rajiv Thamburaj (17) Gr 12, Brampton Christian School, Brampton, ON

ET040  Fuels of the Future: An Optimized Fuel Blend for Lower Emissions

Sruti Arulmani (15) Gr 10, Glenforest Secondary School, Mississauga, ON

ET039  Enhancement of Biofuel Production through Novel Bioelectrosynthesis Characterization of E. Coli

Young Zhou (18) Gr 12, London Central Secondary School, London, ON

ME076  Effect of Ginseng on Beta-Amyloid in Alzheimer's Disease

Sarthak Sinha (17) Gr 11, Henry Wise Hood High School, Calgary, AB

CB050  Discovering and Defining the Role of Cilia in Derma Stem Cell Communication

Adelina Saxena (17) Gr 12, Bayview Secondary School,  Richmond Hill, ON

BE041 Neural Plasticity: Novel Language Learning through Digital Technology

Avinash Pandey (15) Gr 10, Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Waterloo, ON

BE042  Improving Long-term Compliance to Life Saving Medications

Dan Alferov (15) Gr 10, A.B.Lucas Secondary School, London, ON

BE040  Neural Correlates of Visual Awareness during Perceptual Organization

Janelle Tam (17), Gr 12, Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Waterloo, ON

EN052  Functionalized Cellulose Nanocrytals: An Effective Antimicrobial Agent 

Zeyu Liu (17) Gr 12, Sir Winston Churchill High School, Calgary, AB

EE064  A Novel Modular Repulsive Type Hybrid Magnetic Bearing for FES Systems

Sarah Julia Hyslop (17) Gr 12, Bishop Carroll High School, Calgary, AB

MI045  The Road to Novel Antibiotics

And while our finalists were answering questions from the public and students about their projects, Calvin, or Capatain Canada as he was called by his Student Observer colleagues, was busy making a new friend