NEWS RELEASE
NORTH BAY REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR
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North Bay Regional Science Fair (NBRSF) award winners are bringing home a Gold and a Bronze medal from the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2010, held in Peterborough, Ontario May 15 through 23.
Congratulations go to Jamil Merali of Silver Birches, for his Junior Automotive project, “Why Did the Moose Cross the Road?” Jamil won a gold medal in the Automotive Division, sponsored by AUT021, which has a $1,500 cash prize and an Entrance Scholarship valued at $4,000 from the University of Western Ontario attached to it.
Congratulations also go out to Zahra Merali of West Ferris, for her Senior Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Sciences project, “Diffusion Through Osseous Matter”, sponsored by Youth Science Canada. This Bronze medal award has a $300 cash prize attached to it.
Jorrie Cull of Parry Sound was an excellent representative of our region with his Intermediate project “Jorrie and the Beanstalk and Aloe Vera” as was Joe Sexton of West Ferris with his Intermediate project “Exercising Your Mind”.
The Canada-Wide Science Fair is the largest extra-curricular youth activity related to science and technology in Canada, bringing together our country’s best young minds. This year, 494 top young scientists are chosen to compete from approximately 25,000 competitors at over one hundred regional science and technology fairs held across the country. It was estimated that 500,000 students had participated in school fairs this year.
These elite participants compete in seven divisions and three age categories for medals and other prizes worth over $1M.
NBRSF Chair Mike Pearsall commented, “The CWSF is the Olympics of academics where students present the accomplishments of a fine tuned mind. North Bay students work very hard and have always excelled at the CWSF. We are very proud of their accomplishments and wish them every success in their future endeavours.”
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