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2026 Special Award Winners
Back to Winners main pageMichael Crooks Physics Prize (BC Association of Physics Teachers)
($125 scholarship)(7203) Hunting Extremely High-Velocity Outflows (EHVOs) in Quasars: A Machine Learning Approach to Improve EHVO Classification
Student: Jiazhen (Gordon) Zhao
School: Pinetree Secondary
Lynn Valley Garden Club Award
($100 cash)(5103) MeGaPlaNt
Students: Tryphaena Cheng, Siobhan Yu
School: Home Schooled
(5114) Effects of Feeder Colours and Sugar Concentration on Hummingbird Food Preferences
Student: Zarina Abraham-Erhart
School: Our Lady of Fatima
(2206) E.coli biosensors: A system to detect nitrates in water
Students: Fiona Li, Victoria Khong
School: Sir Winston Churchill Secondary
BC Game Developers Innovation Award
Junior Award ($50 cash)(7121) Modeling the Effects of Dark Matter and Dark Energy on the Universe's Expansion
Student: Nathan Ren
School: Tecumseh Elementary
Intermediate Award ($100 cash)
(1204) Artificial Collective Intelligence: Carpenter Ant-Inspired Stigmergic Swarm Robotics for Decentralized Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Student: Christopher Lin
School: Home Schooled
Senior Award ($150 cash)
(1310) In Silico Diabetes Management and Prediction: A Personalized Hybrid Physics-ML System
Student: Jora Singh Nahal
School: University Hill Secondary
Shad Canada Community Changemaker Prize
($750 scholarship)(4201) EEG-Based Detection of Colour Vision Deficiency Using Chromatic Stimuli
Student: Yohann Abraham-Erhart
School: École Dr. Charles Best Secondary
(4205) A Personalized Intervention System for ASD Order Anxiety Based on Cognitive Empathy Large Language Models
Student: Elizabeth Chen
School: St. Regis Secondary School
(3215) A Low-Cost Face-Computer Interface Wheelchair System for People with Paralysis Neck-Down
Student: Jun Kim Kato
School: David Thompson Secondary
David Laugharne Award
perpetual and keeper trophy(1310) In Silico Diabetes Management and Prediction: A Personalized Hybrid Physics-ML System
Student: Jora Singh Nahal
School: University Hill Secondary
UBC Zoology Award
first place ($150 cash)(5203) Two Birds in One Stone: How Yeasts Survive Multiple Stressors with One Adaptation
Students: Lewis Zhang, Lang Qin
School: Collingwood School
second place ($100 cash)
(5123) Investigating Gustatory Coding in Drosophila Melanogaster: A Dose-Response Analysis of Multimodal Taste Coding
Student: Stephen Sheng
School: Burnaby North Secondary
Julia Lane Award
($300 cash)(2302) Low-Cost, Accessible Pre-Treatment for High-Organic Domestic Wastewater in Rural Tropical Southeast Asia Using Moringa oleifera and Okra Seeds
Students: Cindy Liu, Rina (Haerin) Kim
School: Burnaby North Secondary
Students' Choice Award
Perpetual + keeper trophy(3306) SENTRIUS: A Modular Humanoid Robotics Framework for Studying Social Acceptance of Embodied AI
Student: Nirmay Singh
School: Burnaby North Secondary
BC Agriculture in the Classroom Award
($65 cash)(5211) Indoor Small-Scale Aquaponic Systems 2.0: Comparative Analysis of a Living Wall-Integrated System and an Enhanced Nutrient Film Technique System
Student: Emerson Wang
School: David Thompson Secondary
Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST) Award
+ trophy ($100 cash)(2208) Nature's Green Liver: The Phytoremediation Potential of Brassica Juncea (Indian Mustard)
Student: Ananya Srivalli
School: David Thompson Secondary
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Award
($300 cash)(2304) An Underwater Image Enhancement Robotic System (YOLO Detection) for Salmon Eggs Monitoring
Students: JayJay Zhou, Brian Guo
School: Collingwood School
UBC Statistics Award
Junior ($100 cash)(5109) How does age affect semantic false memory and false confidence?
Student: Abigail Tong
School: Vancouver Christian
Intermediate ($100 cash)
(5202) Mind Your Own Thickness: A Novel Longitudinal Network-Based Approach to Cortical Thickness Dynamics and Neuropsychiatric Risk Prediction
Student: Chantelle Yen
School: R C Palmer Secondary
Senior ($100 cash)
(6301) Forecasting Anxiety Trajectories from Irregular GAD-7 Time Series Using Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Stochastic Differential Equation and Kalman Filtering
Student: Aiden Kang
School: Alpha Secondary
In Ink Scientific Writing Award
($100 cash)(5212) Mind in Motion: Investigating how short-form content affects short-term memory in adolescents
Students: Shriya Nair, Mina Hwang
School: Eric Hamber Secondary
SFU Faculty of Science Award
($100 cash)(3301) Low-Consumption Design of an Ostrich-Inspired Bipedal Running Robot: A Bionic Mobile Platform for Low-Interference Environmental Monitoring
Student: ZiLing Zhang
School: Crofton House
(1304) An Automatic Translator
Student: Ryan Chu
School: Robert Alexander McMath Secondary
(1305) SightLine: A Low-Cost Context-Aware Gaze-Assisted Keyboard System to Restore Communication Autonomy for ALS Patients
Student: Owen Qu
School: West Point Grey Academy
(3307) An Experimental Study on the Conversion of Waste CO2 Into Industrially Viable Fuels through Reactive Carbon Capture: A Bimetallic Catalyst Approach
Student: Ann Wang
School: West Point Grey Academy
(4210) Impact of Thermal Treatment on Turmeric’s Antioxidant Activity
Student: Anjali Grewal
School: Stratford Hall
Science World Award
$100 Gift Certificate to Science World Store & Perpetual Trophy(7208) VARION: Analytical Plasma Modelling and Testing of a Versatile Atmospheric Ion Thruster for Orbital and Interplanetary Propulsion
Student: Kushal Polamarasetty
School: Templeton Secondary
BC Science Teachers Association
($100 cash)(3110) UroAlert: You’re in (Urine) Control! A Wearable System for Estimating Urostomy Bag Fill Levels Using Flex Sensors and IMU Data
Student: Neo Chan
School: St John's School
UBC Engineering Physics Award
first place ($250 cash)(2112) Smart Wind: AI-Optimized Funnel Design for Portable Wind Turbines
Student: David Shilletto
School: St George's School
second place ($125 cash)
(3214) AI-Driven Sailboat to Protect Marine Ecosystems
Student: Nara Harvey
School: Eric Hamber Secondary
third place ($125 cash)
(3202) A Novel Approach to Enhancing Ocean Renewable Energy Generation Using Piezoelectric Technology
Student: Hugo Gu
School: J N Burnett Secondary
Greater Vancouver Mining Women Association Award
+ perpetual trophy ($100 cash)(7205) Study of Electrochemical Behavior of Chalcopyrite in Alkaline Media
Student: Julia Cao
School: West Point Grey Academy
Vancouver School Board Award
trophy(7303) Nu Caller ID: Using Multi-Messenger Astronomy to Identify Celestial Events
Student: Corvin Mak
School: David Thompson Secondary
Neil Towers Award for Plant Biology (UBC Botany Department)
($100 cash)(5303) In Vitro Diffusion Analysis of the Antibiotic Properties of North American Plants Against Pathogenic Bacteria
Students: Khafri Mau, Ashley Shen
School: Burnaby North Secondary
BC Nature Award
Grades 7-9 ($100 cash)(2107) Comparing Ecoli levels to Extracted Microplastic weights
Students: Charlotte Bonn, Victoria Potter
School: West Point Grey Academy
Grades 10-12 ($100 cash)
(3214) AI-Driven Sailboat to Protect Marine Ecosystems
Student: Nara Harvey
School: Eric Hamber Secondary
UBC Department of Computer Science Award
first place ($150 cash)(1310) In Silico Diabetes Management and Prediction: A Personalized Hybrid Physics-ML System
Student: Jora Singh Nahal
School: University Hill Secondary
second place ($100 cash)
(1303) PAC-RoPE: A Novel Phase-Amplitude Coupling Approach to Rotary Position Encodings for Long-Context Transformers
Student: Karen Chen
School: Crofton House
Genome BC Scholarship Nomination
Nomination ($1000 scholarship)(4305) Polypharma-Approach to Drug Redesign In Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Inflammatory Treatment
Student: Sriroopa Vijayanarayanan
School: Alpha Secondary
Vancouver Mycological Society Award
+ in-kind prizes ($100 cash)(5124) Length of Time It Takes for Physarum polycephalum to Reach Different Foods
Student: Jordan Marlow
School: Sir Charles Tupper Secondary
Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Scholarship Nomination
Nomination ($1900 scholarship)(1311) Reducing animal vehicle collision by identifying wildlife corridor
Student: Cyrus Hu
School: David Thompson Secondary
HR MacMillan Space Centre Science Communication Award
Gift of a telescope donated by Markarian Optics(7103) Areodynamic Lift, Need for speed
Student: Liam Ko
School: Mulgrave School
BC Hydro Power Pioneers Award
+ trophy ($100 cash)(7207) Influence of Vibration Frequency on Piezoelectric Disc Output
Students: Kylo Chen, Jim Chan
School: Sir Winston Churchill Secondary
UBC Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
($200 cash)(4102) EXODEC: A Novel Computational Framework for Multi-Stage Evaluation and Rational Design of Blood-Brain Barrier Ligands Beyond Binding Affinity
Student: Willem Vuurmans
School: West Point Grey Academy
Genome BC Award
($300 cash)(4305) Polypharma-Approach to Drug Redesign In Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Inflammatory Treatment
Student: Sriroopa Vijayanarayanan
School: Alpha Secondary
(7206) Development of a Universal, Non-Fouling Non-Polar Pollutant Wastewater Filter
Student: Justin (Jiaxing) Guo
School: St George's School
Vancouver RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) Martha Pearse Award
($50 cash)(7301) Analyzing the Effectiveness of Muon Tomography as a Non-Invasive Assement of Seawall Degredation
Students: Kyle Tsui, Heyi Li
School: Collingwood School