Canadian ISEF Teams

Team Canada-ISEF 2015

T-Team Canada-ISEF 2015 Announced

 

Twelve of Canada’s top high school scientists have been selected by Youth Science Canada to represent the country at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) from May 10-16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Intel ISEF is the world’s largest science fair.

Team Canada-ISEF 2015 was selected by a distinguished panel of 18 university faculty, industry researchers, educators and Team Canada-ISEF alumni through a competitive national selection process that began in October and concluded today as part of Youth Science Month.
Last year, the 12 members of Team Canada-ISEF put on a world-class performance, bringing home a total of 11 Special Awards and 10 Grand Awards – including two First Awards!
This year’s Team Canada-ISEF includes 6 Intel ISEF veterans and 6 newcomers from British Columbia and Ontario, and they are (left to right, top to bottom in photo):
Candace Brooks-Da Silva – Windsor, ON
A Biomimetic Non-Planar Approach to Reducing Induced Drag From Trailing Vortices
Emily Cross – Thunder Bay, ON
Patination of Raw Lithic Material for Analysis of Prehistoric Artifacts
Ben Friesen – Grimsby, ON
Improving Crypto; a Novel Smartphone Based Entropy Generator
Ann Makosinski – Victoria, BC
The e-Drink – Capturing Electricity From Beverages
Daniel McInnis – Ottawa, ON
Picture This: A Novel Approach to Limb Donor Matching, Prosthetic Design and Bone Allografts
Aditya Mohan – Ottawa, ON
Development Of A Novel Oncolytic Virus For Cancer Treatment And Diagnosis
Avinash Pandey – Waterloo, ON
Impact of Burst Exercise on Cardiometabolic Status of Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetics
Janice Pang – Coquitlam, BC
miRNAs as biomarkers of IAPP-induced inflammation in type 2 diabetes
Amit Scheer – Ottawa, ON
Targeted Immunomodulatory Antigen-Adjuvant Nanoparticle: An Effective Therapeutic Cancer Vaccination
Duncan Stothers – Vancouver, BC
The FIRST Frame: Personalized Front Impact Reduction System for Bicycles
Nicole Ticea – Burnaby, BC
Point-of-Care Low-Cost Disposable Device for Nucleic Acid Testing of HIV: Sample-to-Answer in 60 Min
Raymond Wang – Vancouver, BC
Aircraft Cabin Airflow: Curbing Disease Transmission

Team Canada-ISEF 2014

Team Canada-ISEF 2014

Twelve of Canada’s top high school scientists were selected by Youth Science Canada to represent the country at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) from May 11-17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Intel ISEF is the world’s largest science fair.
Team Canada-ISEF 2014 was selected by a distinguished panel of 18 university faculty, industry researchers, educators and Team Canada-ISEF alumni through a competitive national selection process that began in October and concludes as part of Youth Science Month.
Last year, the 18 members of Team Canada-ISEF put on a world-class performance, bringing home a total of 25 awards, including two of the seventeen $5,000 Best in Category Awards, and three First Place Grand Awards.
The 2014 Team Canada-ISEF included 2 Intel ISEF veterans and 10 newcomers from Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario, and. They are (left to right, top to bottom in photo):

·    Dan Alferov – London ON

Perception of Facial Expression of Emotion

·    Alex Deans– Windsor ON

iAid: A Novel Multimodal, Cloud – Based Navigation System for the Visually Impaired

·    Meagan Fabel – Windsor ON

Fun in the Sun! Increasing Gratzel Cell Efficiency Using Diatomaceous Earth

·    Ben Friesen – Grimsby ON

iSPI: Integrated System for Pest Identification

·    Ann Makosinski – Victoria BC

The Hollow Flashlights – Head and Hand

·    Daniel Mogilny – Richmond Hill ON

Tw-Lexa: A Novel Multifactor Social Media Analysis Algorithm

·    Sujay Nagaraj – Calgary AB

Treating GBM BTSCs through Growth Factor Stimulation and Drug-Polymer Conjugate Therapy

·    Amit Scheer – Ottawa ON

Personalized Medicine: A Novel Quantum Dot Bioconjugate Targeted Cancer Therapy

·    Duncan Stothers – Vancouver BC

Nanofluid CPU Cooling: Novel Block Design

·    Varsha Jayasankar – St. Catharines ON

Identification of Novel Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Compounds in Curcuma amada

·    Nicole Ticea – Burnaby BC

Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification System for Point-of-Care HIV Diagnosis

·    Adamo Young – Ottawa ON

Production of an oncolytic virus enhancer protein using a bacterial and an insect cell platform

 

 

Team Canada-ISEF 2013

Team Canada-ISEF 2013

Eighteen of Canada’s top high school scientists were selected by Youth Science Canada to represent the country at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) from May 12-17, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. Intel ISEF is the world’s largest science fair.

Team Canada-ISEF 2013 was selected by a distinguished panel of 18 university faculty, industry researchers, educators and Team Canada-ISEF alumni through a competitive national selection process that began in October and concluded today as part of Youth Science Month.

Last year, the 18 members of Team Canada-ISEF put on a world-class performance, bringing home a total of 30 awards, including one of two $50,000 Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards presented to the best of the best, three of the seventeen $5,000 Best of Category Awards, and four First Place Grand Awards.

This year’s Team Canada-ISEF includes 5 Intel ISEF veterans and 13 newcomers from Alberta, Ontario, and Québec. They are (left to right, top to bottom in photo):

 

  • Dan Alferov– London ON
    Neural Correlates of Conscious Awareness during Perceptual Organization
  • Sruti Arulmani – Mississauga ON
    Enhancement of Biofuel Production through Novel Bioelectrosynthesis Characterization of E. coli
  • Maya Burhanpurkar – Shanty Bay ON
    The First Validation of the Physical Nature of the Time Integral of Displacement
  • Minuoja Chandramohan – Montréal QC
    Cocoa polyphenol extract inhibits interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) production in murine
  • Adelina Corina Cozma – Richmond Hill ON
    Neural Plasticity: Novel Language Learning through Digital Technology
  • Jennifer Csele – Welland ON
    Creating PEAS: Portable Elemental Analysis System
  • Sarah Julia Hyslop – Calgary AB
    The Road to Novel Antibiotics
  • Zeyu Liu – Calgary AB
    A Novel Modular Repulsive Type Hybrid Magnetic Bearing for FES Systems
  • Jessie MacAlpine – Woodstock ON
    Mustard oil as an apicomplexan-targeting drug therapy for Plasmodium falciparum
  • Sujay Nagaraj – Calgary AB
    Understanding the Role of Platelet Derived Growth Factor in the Function of Glioblastoma Brain Tumor
  • Arjun Nair – Calgary AB
    A Synergistic Approach in Treating Cancer via Photothermal Therapy and HSP90 Inhibition
  • Avinash Pandey – Waterloo ON
    Improving Longterm Compliance to Life Saving Medications
  • Ankita Saxena – Calgary AB
    Beta-Amyloid in Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Sarthak Sinha – Calgary AB
    Discovering and Defining The Role of Cilia In Dermal Stem Cell Communication
  • Janelle Tam – Waterloo ON
    Functionalized Cellulose Nanocrystals: An Effective Antimicrobial Agent
  • Rajiv Thamburaj – Brampton ON
    Fuels of the Future: An Optimized Fuel Blend for Lower Emissions
  • Fan Zhang – Ottawa ON
    Mobile Vision – An Efficient Algorithm and its Applications
  • Young Zhou – London ON
    Effect of Ginseng on β-Amyloid in Alzheimer’s Disease

Team Canada-ISEF is a program of Youth Science Canada and is generously supported by Intel of Canada.