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ROTARY SCIENCE FAIR
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25th annual Rotary Science Fair Awards - 2012
Top awards ("Best of Fair")
1. Rotary Club of Sault Ste. Marie Award of Excellence:
First Entry to Canada-Wide Science Fair
First Place - Best of Fair:
"The Algal Alternative: A Biofuel Investigation" by Karl Zimmermann (Korah Collegiate)
2. Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation – Stepping Stone Award:
Second Entry to Canada-Wide Science Fair
Second Place - Best of Fair:
"Circadian Cycles of Angora Hamsters" by Corey Conforzi (Korah Collegiate)
3. Benjamin Cohen Family Memorial Trophy: $70 Cash Award
Third Place - Best of Fair:
"Salty Notion" by Jordan Winter (Anna McCrea)
Honourable Mentions:
"Reaction Distraction" by Noah Wacker & Gavyn McCabe (Grand View)
"The APPLE-tizing Effects of pH" by Molly Campbell (CASS)
First-place, second-place, and third-place winners in Best of Fair will all travel to the Canada-wide national competition being held May 12-19 in Charlottetown PEI. Honourable mention projects may go if the primary winners cannot attend.
Alfred R. Askin Shields
(for best school for participation and excellence in each division)
1. Senior School (grades 11-12): Korah Collegiate
2. Intermediate School (grades 9-10): Central Algoma Secondary School
3. Junior School (grades 7-8): Anna McCrea
Awards for best in each age category
1st Place Junior
Professional Institute of Public Servants Award, $80
"Salty Notion" by Jordan Winter (Anna McCrea)
1st Place Intermediate
Ontario Power Generation Award, $80
"The APPLE-tizing Effects of pH" by Molly Campbell (CASS)
1st Place Senior
Great Lakes Forestry Centre Award, $80
"The Algal Alternative: A Biofuel Investigation" by Karl Zimmermann (Korah Collegiate)
2nd Place Junior
Don Wallace Memorial Award, $60
"Reaction Distraction" by Noah Wacker & Gavyn McCabe (Grand View)
2nd Place Intermediate
Don Wallace Memorial Award, $60
"Does Multitasking Affect Your Memory and Reaction Time?" by Kaitlyn Murray (CASS)
2nd Place Senior
Don Wallace Memorial Award, $60
"Circadian Cycles of Angora Hamsters" by Corey Conforzi (Korah Collegiate)
3rd Place Junior
Essar Award, $40
"Ton âge et ton pensée (Your age and your mind)" by Brenna Ladouceur-Molinaro & Kate Mohammadi (Ecole Notre-Dame-des-Ecoles)
3rd Place Intermediate
Essar Award, $40
" Hydrodynamics: How Anti-Fouling Paint Is Fouling Our Environment " by Nasa Nguyen (Korah Collegiate)
3rd Place Senior
Essar Award, $40
"Can these solutions hold their arsenic?" by Ryan LaRue (Korah Collegiate)
Special Sponsored Awards
Hydro One Energy Ambassador Award
Best Project on Distribution or Conservation of Electrical Energy, $100
"How the Surface Area of a Copper Cathode Affects the Redox Reaction" by Patrick Laporte
(Korah Collegiate)
University of Ontario Institute of Technology Award
Most Innovative Development, Adaptation, or Use of Technology in any subject area, $100
"Ethanol and Digestion of Carbohydrates" by Cydney Mihell (Korah Collegiate)
Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories Award
Top Laboratory Sciences Project, $100
"Can these solutions hold their arsenic?" by Ryan LaRue (Korah Collegiate)
University of Ottawa Most Deserving Senior Project
$1,000 Admission Scholarship Award
"Circadian Cycles of Angora Hamsters" by Corey Conforzi (Korah Collegiate)
Sault College Junior Project Award “Best Green Thinking”
One week sponsored at the Sault College/YMCA Summer 2011 Camp
"Environmental Clean-up" by Anik Graves (Thessalon Public School)
MDS Laboratory Services Award (Lifelabs)
Best Discovery Project, $70
"Burning Bananas" by Brianna Armstrong (Anna McCrea)
Gary Rahn Memorial Awards (2), Sault Naturalists
Best 2 Natural History Projects, $50 each
1. "Ground Water Contamination" by Matthew Grexton (Thessalon Public School)
2. "Eat Your Greens… Raw" by Claire McCarthy (Korah Collegiate)
Superior Digital Solutions
Best Use of Applied Math, $50
"The Effect of Romantic Relationships on Highschool Students Self Esteem" by Christina Meyers
(Korah Collegiate)
Essar Steel Award
Best in Engineering and Computer Science, $50
"A Very Magnetic Topic!" by William Caldwell-Pratt & William Edwards
(Superior Heights Intermediate Collegiate & Vocational School)
Attilio Berdusco Award
Best in Health Sciences, $70
"Ton âge et ton pensée (Your age and your mind)" by Brenna Ladouceur-Molinaro & Kate Mohammadi (Ecole Notre-Dame-des-Ecoles)
Algoma University Most Deserving Senior Project
$500 Admission Scholarship Award
"The Algal Alternative: A Biofuel Investigation" by Karl Zimmermann (Korah Collegiate)
2012 Rotary Science Fair statistics
This year’s competition was our 25th annual science fair!
80 Projects Total:
- 49 Junior (Grades 7-8), 3 Intermediate (Grades 9-10), 28 Senior (Grades 11-12)
- (Six of the Junior projects were in French)
- 110 Students Total: 78 Junior, 3 Intermediate, 29 Senior
- 12 schools represented, including 4 projects from Desbarats and Thessalon
- 18 Judges (local scientists and technical professionals)
SSM Rotary Club Science Fair
Arthur Retnakenam, Chair
Krista Dubie, Vice Chair
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