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2025 Special Award Winners
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($65 cash)(5206) Addressing Food Security in Tanzania and Nigeria: Pb2+ Soil Detoxification and ML-SCEP Encapsulation for Optimal Bean Growth in Nutrient Deprived Har
Students: Ashley Shen, Khafri Mau
School: Burnaby North Secondary
Science World Award
$100 Gift Certificate to Science World Store & Perpetual Trophy(7103) Radiation, that’s bananas!
Student: Storm Beals
School: Island Pacific School
BC Science Teachers Association
($100 cash)(1105) Battle of the AIs: Which Algorithm Plays Video Games Best?
Student: David Shilletto
School: St George's School
UBC Engineering Physics Award
first place ($250 cash)(4201) Novel Organic Electrochemical Transistors for High-Sensitivity Multiplex Detection of Mitochondrial Dysfunction
Students: Max Wang, Jiseok Song
School: St George's School
second place ($125 cash)
(3108) Rocket Fins
Students: Sabrina Xu, Moana Wang
School: St John's School
third place ($125 cash)
(3213) Turbine
Student: Arav Bangur
School: Port Moody Secondary
Greater Vancouver Mining Women Association Award
+ perpetual trophy ($100 cash)(2203) Sea the Difference? Evaluating Seawater as a Sustainable Solution for Acid Mine Drainage Treatment
Student: Cleavon Wang
School: St George's School
Vancouver School Board Award
trophy(7307) Novel Cost-Effective Method of Producing Regenerated Cellulose Fibers
Students: Angelina Hang, Noah Oliver Pang
School: Vancouver Technical Secondary
Neil Towers Award for Plant Biology (UBC Botany Department)
$100 Gift Certificate to Science World Store & Perpetual Trophy ($100 cash)(5301) Leaf Me Alone: An In Vitro Study of 6-Benzylaminopurine Effects on Morphological Responses in Ocimum basilicum Under Simulated Drought Stress
Student: Didi Zhuang
School: Mulgrave School
BC Nature Award
Grades 7-9 ($100 cash)(2110) Filtering Salmon Streams
Student: Claire Keen
School: West Point Grey Academy
Grades 10-12 ($100 cash)
(2212) Hiking Trails - Impact on Soil Longevity
Students: Colin Hodge, Lucia Feng
School: Gleneagle Secondary
UBC Department of Computer Science Award
first place ($150 cash)(1203) A Novel AI-Powered Voice-Controlled Cross-Platform Computer Accessibility App
Student: Jora Singh Nahal
School: University Hill Secondary
second place ($100 cash)
(3206) Harnessing Random Forest and KNN Machine Learning Models to Predict Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Students: Alicia Wei, Michelle Cao
School: Robert Alexander McMath Secondary
Genome BC Scholarship Nomination
Nomination ($1000 scholarship)(4302) Systematic Identification and Validation of Novel Gene Signatures to Predict Chemotherapy Response in Cancer Patients
Student: Dewey Liang
School: David Thompson Secondary
Vancouver Mycological Society Award
+ in-kind prizes ($100 cash)(5208) La bébé champignon
Student: Jacob Dimaano
School: Robert Alexander McMath Secondary
Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Scholarship Nomination
Nomination ($1900 scholarship)(3304) Approaches to autonomous drone flight.
Student: Henry Boisset
School: West Point Grey Academy
Students' Choice Award
Perpetual + keeper trophy(3302) Sentrius: Affordable AI Assistant That Can Save Lives
Students: Nirmay Singh, Shaylen Bhushan
School: Burnaby North Secondary
BC Hydro Power Pioneers Award
+ trophy ($100 cash)(2301) Dual-Purpose Biological Photovoltaic: Optimizing Power Output and Wastewater Treatment
Students: Yu Han Guo, Yu Chen Guo
School: York House School, St George's School
UBC Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
($200 cash)(4224) Suppressing Alzheimer’s Disease Neurodegeneration by a Nontoxic, Dose-Dependent Vitamin K Therapy
Student: Freddie Zhang
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
Genome BC Award
($300 cash)(4212) Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis and Progression Prediction Based on Gut Microbiota Composition with Explainable Machine Learning
Student: Benjamin Lee
School: David Thompson Secondary
(4305) A Novel Diagnostic Method for the Detection of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
Student: Jacqueline Ni
School: Collingwood School
Vancouver RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) Martha Pearse Award
($50 cash)(7306) Compilation of the Largest Ever Ca II Absorption Catalog Using a Novel Ensemble Learning Approach
Student: Lucas Wang
School: Burnaby North Secondary
Michael Crooks Physics Prize (BC Association of Physics Teachers)
($125 scholarship)(7104) An Introduction To Light refraction. Rainbows, Microscopes, and more.
Student: Rowan Robertson
School: Island Pacific School
UBC - BC Diabetes Research Network Award
+ intership at UBC lab ($200 cash)(5304) Circadian Redox Oscillators in Maintaining Beta Cell Homeostasis
Student: Laurence Bi
School: New Westminster Secondary
BC Game Developers Innovation Award
Junior Award ($50 cash)(1105) Battle of the AIs: Which Algorithm Plays Video Games Best?
Student: David Shilletto
School: St George's School
Intermediate Award ($100 cash)
(1202) A Novel Approach to Studying Human Movement: ML-Driven Biomechanical Analysis of Throwing Motion Using LSTM and Self-Attention Models
Student: Christopher Lin
School: Home Schooled
Senior Award ($150 cash)
(3303) AQUAM AD VITAM: Deep-Desert Water Collection
Student: Sophie Liksutin
School: Moscrop Secondary
Shad Canada Community Changemaker Prize
($750 scholarship)(4204) The Plastic Brain - Examining BDNF Through Age, BMI, Sex and Acute Exercise for Brain Injury Research
Students: Xiuming Li, Zixin Wang
School: Collingwood School
(3202) A Novel Approach to Plastic Waste Degradation and Bioelectricity Generation via Microbial Fuel Cells
Student: Riya Dua
School: R C Palmer Secondary
(7202) Development of a High Efficiency Low-Fouling Physicochemical Filter for Micro/Nano-Sized Microplastics in Post-Secondary Treatment Wastewater Effluent
Student: Justin (Jiaxing) Guo
School: St George's School
David Laugharne Award
perpetual and keeper trophy(1202) A Novel Approach to Studying Human Movement: ML-Driven Biomechanical Analysis of Throwing Motion Using LSTM and Self-Attention Models
Student: Christopher Lin
School: Home Schooled
UBC Zoology Award
first place ($150 cash)(5101) The Effect of Dietary Nutritional Value on the Heart Rate of Daphnia
Student: Benjamin Fallah
School: St. Thomas Aquinas
second place ($100 cash)
(5217) Doh-Defence: Reducing Bacterial Risks in Playdoh with Citric Acid and Aloe Vera
Students: Kelly Chan, Rebecca Barsky
School: Ideal Mini School
Julia Lane Award
($300 cash)(2206) Are Tiny Particles A Big Problem
Student: Stephanie Chu
School: Alpha Secondary
SFU Faculty of Science Award
($100 cash)(3203) Shelter From Waste: Chip Bag Roof Tiles
Student: Carolina Xu
School: David Thompson Secondary
(3204) Fabric to Foundation: Improving Housing Through Textile Waste
Student: Kaitlyn Yip
School: David Thompson Secondary
(7204) Une Experience Spectrotastique
Student: Eric Medianu
School: Robert Alexander McMath Secondary
(2303) OctaFilter: A Novel, Cost-Effective Electrolysis & Chemical Filtration Machine
Student: Ishan Kapadia
School: Burnaby Mountain Secondary
(2217) BioPower: A Novel Biodegradable Banana Peel Based Battery Cell
Student: Warren Chen
School: St George's School
BC Greenhouse Growers Association Award
($75 cash)(5107) To Bean or Not to Bean
Student: Chantelle Yen
School: R C Palmer Secondary
Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST) Award
+ trophy ($100 cash)(5203) Novel Application of Nanozymes For Improved Dual Species Biofilm (S. aureus & C. albicans) Inhibition
Student: Grace Lee
School: York House School
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Award
($300 cash)(2208) Creating Biodegradable Plastic Film From Fish Scales
Students: Lucas Chen, Andrew Huang
School: Sir Winston Churchill Secondary
UBC Statistics Award
Junior ($100 cash)(2119) Race of the Biodegradables: Cornstarch vs Plastarch
Student: Michael Skrypnyk
School: Prince of Wales Secondary
Intermediate ($100 cash)
(4221) Scree time and T2DM: how does disruption of sleep and PASA modify their relationship?
Student: Ziling Zhang
School: Crofton House
Senior ($100 cash)
(4301) Enhancing Stroke Diagnosis in Rural Areas Through Wireless MRI Image Transmission With Wi-Fi and LTE
Student: Elaine Lyu
School: Collingwood School
In Ink Scientific Writing Award
($100 cash)(2107) The Hidden Heroes of the Ocean
Student: Isabel Alex
School: Tecumseh Elementary
Verdi Sustainability Award
($250 cash)(2209) Bio-soilution
Students: Yolanda Liang, Yuri Kim
School: R C Palmer Secondary
(5211) Saponin Surfactants: Novel extraction of environment friendly natural saponins, and their effect on bacterial inhibition and plant growth
Student: Tanvir Mundra
School: St John's School