Science Fair Club

Over the years the students have worked incredibly hard with amazing success!!  

Here are a few of their results:

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair:  Spring 2011 Results
Gold Medal Winner: Summit Middle School’s Megan MacDonald with a project on “Natural Antibiotics:  Do they really work?”  Focus on natural antibiotics, and testing their efficiency against E Coli, Staph A, Staph E, and Enterbacter Aerogenes bacteria.

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair:  Spring 2012 Results
Gold Medal Winner: Summit Middle School’s Janice Pang completing a project on “Pre-exposing RAW 264.7  Macrophages to Microbial Product, Pam 3CSK4”
Silver Medal Winners: Summit Middle School’s Andy Kim and Azim Ahmed completing a project on “The Most Efficient New Tank Syndrome Cure” and Emma Field with a project on “The effect of E. Coli and UV light exposure”
Bronze Medal Winner: Summit Middle School’s Nicholas Wee with a project on “Musical Scales”

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair:  Spring 2013 Results
Gold Medal Winners: Summit Middle School’s Carol He and Bennett Tan completing a project on “Can Antioxidants prevent free radical damage”
Bronze Medal Winner: Summit Middle School’s Nirvon Shoa  Nirvon’s Test Writer (Computer Programming) 

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair:  Spring 2014 Results
Gold Medal Winner:  Summit Middle School’s Niki Manesh  with her project onTo Paraben or Not to Paraben?”
Gold Medal Winner:  Summit Middle School’s Audrey Har & Amy Kim with their project on “Anti Microbial properties in Evergreen trees”
Bronze Medal Winner: Summit Middle School’s Katie Sew Traditional Chinese Medicine, does it really work?

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair:  Spring 2015 Results
Silver Medal Winner: Summit Middle School’s Danilo Lekovic:  How can we improve Programming Languages?

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair:  Spring 2016 Results
Gold Medal Winner: Riverside Secondary’s Vlad Pomogaev and his innovation of an “Electric Skateboard”. 

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair:  Spring 2022 Results
Bronze Medal Winner: Riverside Secondary School’s Rachel Smid:  Creating a theoretical vaccine using CRISPR technology to eradicate Ebola

 

 

These students also received a Gold Medals and were also selected to participate in the CANADA-WIDE NATIONAL FAIR over the past few years
how-to-achieve-successThese students traveled to either Prince Edward Island, Alberta, or Ontario for ONE WEEK in May to compete in the Canada-Wide Science Fair.  

2011:    Summit Middle School’s Megan MacDonald
who completed a project on “Natural Antibiotics:  Do they really work?”  Natural antibiotics were assessed to determine their efficiency against E Coli, Staph A, Staph E, and Enterbacter Aerogenes bacteria. 

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2012: Summit Middle School’s Janice Pang:
completing a project on “Pre-exposing RAW 264.7  Macrophages to Microbial Product, Pam 3CSK4”

Janice Pang won a GOLD MEDAL at the Canada Wide National Science Fair!  An astounding accomplishment!

Her study discovered that because lactic acid bacteria, a gram-positive bacterium, are a very important microorganism in our body,  the environment pre-exposure to a lipoprotein, increases phagocytic activity specific macrophages up to 40%. Therefore lipoprotein, PAM3CSK4, can be a possible microbial product that can treat infections caused by pathogenic gram-negative bacteria by improving the phagocytic uptake.
APRIL 2022 UPDATE: Janice is currently completing her PhD at the University of Toronto in Biomedical Engineering! 

2013: Summit Middle School’s Carol He and Bennett Tan completing a project on “Can Antioxidants prevent free radical damage” 

2014: Summit Middle School’s Niki Manesh  with her project onTo Paraben or Not to Paraben?” Parabens are a type of preservative used in about 85% of cosmetics and personal care products, and are known to mimic the male and female androgen hormones testosterone and estrogen, respectively.  Preservatives are essential in cosmetics and skin and body care products, so the use of them cannot be completely omitted, so the only practical solution is to find a less harmful alternative. Rosemary Leaf Extract, Tea Tree Oil, Grapeseed oil, and raw honey were selected to be used as preservatives in this experiment, and were hypothesized to be effective, though less so than methyl and ethylparaben.

Summit Middle School’s Audrey Har & Amy Kim  with their project onAnti Microbial properties in Evergreen trees”

2015:  Summit Middle School’s Mike Roslikov and his innovation of “Speech Recognition:  A Fresh approach”.  In this project it is discussed the current state of the art of speech recognition algorithms and why is the progress in this field so slow, for example, Apple’s Siri or Google’s speech recognition does not work without internet connection. This is because both of them require transferring what you said to their data center. This project offers a new promising approach to speaker independent sound recognition that can lead to 100% accuracy of continuous speech recognition and doesn’t require a lot of computer resources.

2016:  Riverside Secondary’s Vlad Pomogaev and his innovation of an “Electric Skateboard”.  He entered his innovation of making ​​a lightweight and fast electric skateboard which utilizes a wireless remote method for operation.  He also investigated the effect of changing the gear ratio on power consumption as a function of load, speed, and gear ratio using different masses at different velocities in order to maximize the range.
APRIL 2022 UPDATE:  Vlad just completed his Engineering Physics Degree at the University of  B.C.IMG_1296

Just to put things into perspective, over 500 000 science fair projects (about 750 000 students) compete across Canada every year and only 417 students are chosen to compete in the National Science Fair.  Each of these students had LESS than a 0.06% chance to make it to this point!!!!  WHAT AN AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT!!!

 

SD#43:  Student Spaceflight Experiments Program 2016 Competition

2016:  Riverside Seondary’s Brenda Shen and Alexa Durand SSEP (Student Spaceflight Experiments Program) District Winners! 

SSEP is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education initiative.  School District 43, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) and NanoRacks collaboratively worked together to give students the unique experience of participating in a real scientific process. Students had to design and propose real experiments to fly in low Earth orbit, first aboard the final flights of the Space Shuttle, and then on the International Space Station.

There were 22 communities (2 in Canada and 20 in the U.S.) that participated in Mission 11.  In School District 43 over 1600 students were involved in this amazing opportunity.  Of the 277 final teams of students that submitted proposals, and Brenda Shen and Alexa Durand won the initiative and their experiment on the effect of microgravity on concrete, specifically concrete created using a mixture based on fly ash was rocketed off to the ISS!!