The results are in (5 photos)

1. Rotary Club of Sault Ste. Marie Award of Excellence:
First Entry to Canada-Wide Science Fair
First Place - Best of Fair:
"Anti-Bacterial Effects of Tea Tree Oil” by Emily Elder (Korah Collegiate)

2. TENARIS Award:
Second Entry to Canada-Wide Science Fair
Second Place - Best of Fair:
"To Bee or Not To Bee" by Jordan Winter (Korah Collegiate)

3. Benjamin Cohen Family Memorial Trophy: $70 Cash Award
Third Place - Best of Fair:
"Anticipation vs. Reaction: The Effect of Anticipation on the Reaction Time of Swimmers” by Sarah Gelmych (Korah Collegiate)

Honourable Mentions:

4. "Hear It or See It Here 1st” by Gavan Barrett (Grand View)
5. "Does Temperature Affect The Speed Of A Puck?” by Jennifer Allick (Grand View)
6. "How Gear Ratios Affect Motors" by Max Fisher & Gavyn McCabe (Superior Heights)

First-place, second-place, and third-place winners in Best of Fair will all travel to the Canada-wide national competition being held May 9-16 in Fredericton NB. Alternate award-winning projects may go if the primary winners cannot attend.

Alfred R. Askin Shields

(for best school team participation and excellence in each division)

1. Senior School (grades 11-12): Korah Collegiate
2. Intermediate School (grades 9-10): Korah Collegiate 3. Junior School (grades 7-8): Grand View

Awards for Best in Each Age Category

1st Place Junior

TENARIS Award, $80

"Hear It or See It Here 1st” by Gavan Barrett (Grand View)

1st Place Intermediate

TENARIS Award, $80

"To Bee or Not To Bee" by Jordan Winter (Korah Collegiate)

1st Place Senior

TENARIS Award, $80

"Anti-Bacterial Effects of Tea Tree Oil” by Emily Elder (Korah Collegiate)

2nd Place Junior

Don Wallace Memorial Award, $60

"Does Temperature Effect The Speed Of A Puck?” by Jennifer Allick (Grand View)

2nd Place Intermediate

Don Wallace Memorial Award, $60

"Calories Count!” by Emma Klooster & Hailee Young (Superior Heights)

2nd Place Senior

Don Wallace Memorial Award, $60

"Anticipation vs. Reaction: The Effect of Anticipation on the Reaction Time of Swimmers” by Sarah Gelmych (Korah Collegiate)

3rd Place Junior

Essar Award, $40

"BarDown” by Tyler Thomlinson & Nicholas Niro (Grand View)

3rd Place Intermediate

Essar Award, $40

"How Do People Recognize Emotions Using Facial Clues?” by Payton Beilhartz & Emma McLeod (Superior Heights)

3rd Place Senior

Essar Award, $40

"How Gear Ratios Affect Motors" by Max Fisher & Gavyn McCabe (Superior Heights)

Special Sponsored Awards

Professional Engineers of Ontario Awards (2)

Most Innovative Development, Adaptation, or Use of Technology in any subject area, $125 each

"Building the Best Bridge” by Daphné Dupuis & Mya St Jean (Rosedale)
"Does Temperature Affect The Speed Of A Puck?” by Jennifer Allick (Grand View)

TENARIS Award

Innovative Use of Robotics, $100

"How Gear Ratios Affect Motors" by Max Fisher & Gavyn McCabe (Superior Heights)

Superior Digital Solutions

Best Use of Applied Mathematics, $50

"BarDown” by Tyler Thomlinson & Nicholas Niro (Grand View)

Essar Steel Award

Best in Computer Science, $50

"The effect of temperature on the diffusion of thiaflavin pigment in Earl Grey tea” by Noah Janzen (Korah Collegiate)

Gary Rahn Memorial Awards (2), Sault Naturalists Best in Natural History, $50
"To Bee or Not To Bee" by Jordan Winter (Korah Collegiate)

Best in Green Thinking, $50

"How does the holocellulose to lignin ratio of bark affect its heat of combustion?” by Can Cui & Dante Severini (Korah Collegiate)

Attilio Berdusco Award

Best in Health Sciences, $70

"Anti-Bacterial Effects of Tea Tree Oil” by Emily Elder (Korah Collegiate)

University of Ottawa Most Deserving Senior Project

$1,000 Admission Scholarship Award

"Iodine Clock Lab” by Avery Newman-Simmons (Korah Collegiate)

Algoma University Most Deserving Senior Project

$1,000 Entrance Scholarship Award

"Anti-Bacterial Effects of Tea Tree Oil” by Emily Elder (Korah Collegiate)

2015 Rotary Science Fair Statistics

This year’s competition was our 28th annual science fair!

73 Projects

Total: 39 Junior (Grades 7-8), 10 Intermediate (Grades 9-10), 24 Senior (Grades 11-12)

107 Students

Total: 63 Junior, 19 Intermediate, 25 Senior

8 schools represented from Sault area

25 Judges (local scientists and technical professionals)