Congratulations to Ontario's Platinum Winners!

Congratulations to Mikaela Preston (pictured above) for taking home the Platinum Award - Best Intermediate Project with her project, Population Dynamics in Algal Bioreactors.Mikaela is a Grade 9 student in Richmond Hill, ON.

Congratulations to Daniel McInnis (pictured above) for taking home the Platinum Award - Best Junior Project with his project, Putting a Lid on Concussions - Materials Testing on a New Helmet Design. Daniel is a Grade 8 student in Ottawa, ON.

Youth Science Ontario would like to congratulate all members of Team Ontario for their great showing at the 2011 Canada-Wide Science Fair:

Excellence Awards Gold Medals Winners

• Adam Noble and Shayla Larson – Peterborough - The Hazards of Nanosilver Uncovered
• Marshall Zhang - York Region - Mechanisms of Action of Small Molecules in the Rescue of ?F508-CFTR
• Nicholas Schiefer -York Region - Apodora: Markov Chain-Inspired Microsearch
• Andrew Martin and Eric Stubley - Waterloo-Wellington - Modelling Population Growth
• Christopher Chopian - Lambton County - Computer Controlled Heart Assist Pump
• Sandra Dusolt - Northwestern Ontario - No power, no water, no food, no problem!
• Jessie MacAlpine - London District - Suppressing weed germination using allelopathy of Alliaria petiolata
• Sruti Arulmani - Peel Region - Photoheterotrophic Microbial Fuel Cell
• Naima Raza - Lambton County - The NEWspaper Fuel: Enhancing Cellulosic Ethanol Production
• Neel Ashton Sharma - Frontenac, Addington and Lennnox - S.O.S.: Stop Oil Spills- Results of an LC50 Study on Artemia Salina
• Calvin Rieder - Peel Region - Water, Water Everywhere Nor any drop to drink" Atmospheric Water Condensers"
• Gayashan Tennakoon – Ottawa - Oil Sands: Friend or Foe?
• Mikaela Preston -York Region - Population Dynamics in Algal Bioreactors
• Daniel McInnis – Ottawa - Putting a Lid on Concussions – Materials Testing and a New Helmet Design

Excellence Awards Silver Medal Winners

• Adam Mofeed Sawan - London District - Examination of the Microbial Effect of Red Sea Water Incursion into the Dead Sea
• Stephanie Chan - Waterloo-Wellington - The Race to Remediate Crude Oil Spills
• Gaelle Groux -            Niagara Region - The Role of the Adventitia in Hypertension
• Chanelle Mitchell – Toronto - We've got Chemistry: Aphrodisiacs,Pheromones and Attraction
• Malak Elbantarny - Frontenac, Addington and Lennox - Making Connections: introducing the artificial nerve
• A-J Hutchings – Ottawa - The Role of Gastrin-Releasing Peptide in Neural Excitation of Rat Paraventricula
• Sathya Baskaran – Ottawa - Recovery By Regeneration
• Sandro Young - Ottawa - Avatouch 2.0: Upgrading" Real Life with a Rich Augmented Reality Experience"
• Brynn Charron –Windsor - Wind Amplification - Let's Turn Up the Power!
• Meagan Fabel – Windsor - Catch the Windy Wave to $ave! Phase Two
• Varsha Jayasankar - Niagara Region -Phytoremediation: Removing Lead Using Plants
• Dhanuddara Mohottalage – Ottawa - Biofuels! The Alternate Solution to Greenhouse Gas Emmisions
• Madeline Stever – Peterborough - Sunscreen: The Good, The Bad And The Metallic Taste in My Mouth - Part 2
• Melissa Chopcian - Lambton County - Pacemaker Battery Improvements
• Alex Rhee - Peel Region - The Airless High Efficiency Dryer
• Josie Mielhausen – Bluewater - Phyto Filter
• Theresa DeCola – Quinte - Spirit Mission by Interplanetary Shipping
• Dan Alferov - London District - Binocular Rivalry Polygraph
• Patrick Chong - Bay Area - Light Amplification to Improving Solar Cell Efficiency
• Mollie Marie Bianchi -York Region - Net Energy Evaluation of an Automotive Wind Driven Generator 
• Derek Churchill – Windsor - Busy Biomonitors
• Skye Preston - York Region - Bioremediation with Basidiomycetes
• Lauren Anderson and Fiona Weaver - Easy Parry Sound - Bag Those Bugs
• Steven Liu and Kevin Peng - Waterloo-Wellington - The Germ-inator
• Frannie Sobcov – Ottawa - Keeping Seniors Safe: The Sequel
• Mireille Salloum and Vanessa Ajouri – Ottawa - Absorption des couches
• Adrian Au - Rideau St. Lawrence - Treading on Thin Ice

Excellence Awards Bronze Medal Winners

• Paul Albert-Lebrun – Waterloo-Wellington –  Cavitation Hydrophobia
• Emily Faubert – Peel Region -  New Wave Agriculture
• Joan Lopez – Niagara Region – Anthocyanin and the Autumn Phenomenon
• Zach Elgood – Waterloo –Wellington - Potential Production of CH3CL in an Instream Denitrifying Woodchip Bioreactor
• Johnny Su and Dazhi Liao – Toronto – Biochar: A carbon-negative soil enhancer
• Rebeccah Sandrelli – Renfrew County – Filter Braced for the Pharmaceutically Laced
• Jenny Xue – Quinte – Does Light At Night Boost Appetite? A Study on Mice
• Melissa Phuong – Peel Region – Memory: Short-term Capacity
• Samantha Pramanick and Adarsh Gupta – Toronto – The Use of Nanocellulose in Producing a Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode
• Marieta Buse – Waterloo-Wellington – Meddling with Metals
• Jennifer Csele – Niagara Region – Determining Heavy Metal Contamination in Soil Using Spectroscopy
• Aruni Jayatilaka – London District – A Boost Up
• Grace Enns – Windsor – Raining Power!
• Julia Grein – Bluewater – How Does Your Garden Grow?
• Moriah Harvey – Northwestern Ontario – Biofouling Of Boat Hulls
• Victor Ling – London District – Optimizing 2D-Circulating Fluidized Bed Performance: How Factors Affect Cluster
• Alexandra Gaglione – York Region – A Portable Solar Water Purification System
• Kyle Potts – Simcoe County – Corn Stalk Coffee Cups
• Emilie Leneveu – Quinte – Heads or Tails/Pile ou face
• John Hinch – Waterloo-Wellington – Stimuli In = Action Out?
• Logan Wolfe – Bluewater – Velocitization
• Owen Hogg – Timmins – Etes-vous plus creatif qu'un deuxieme annee?
• Katherine Teeter – Bluewater – Sunny Days, Sweeping the Clouds Away
• Stacy Glasberg – Ottawa – The Dark Side of Light
• Aaron Leger – Avon Maitland Huron-Perth – Enviro-Friendly Packing Frenzy
• Jessie Payne and Sam Murray – Avon Maitland Huron-Perth – Can Algae Efficiently Convert Car Emissions Into Wholesome and Healthy Oxygen?
• Laurence Emery – Peterborough – Eco Friendly Road Salt? What Do Daphnia Say?
• Anthony Meola – Peel Region – Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
• Alexandria Schraenkler – Renfrew County – Does the water quality affect the rising of yeast?
• Matthew Sem – York Region – Homemade Water Purification System:  Phase II
• Adam Chen and Nicholas Dobrovolskis – Bay Area – What's In Your Salt Shaker?
• Gaven Mann – Bay Area – Sleep? Haven't Heard of It.
• Erin Gilmer – United Counties – How Does Eye Colour Effect Peripheral Vision
• Sydney Mosaheb – Frontenac, Addington and Lennox – A Hairy Ordeal
• Akshay Ben – York Region – Antioxidants:  Bouncing to Growth
• Maya Burhanpurkar – Simcoe County – Synthesizing a Novel,Bio-Selective Smart Antibiotic""
• Jon Franchetto – London District - Absolute Pitch - Nature or Nurture?
• Gary Shen and Carl Shen – London District – Passive RFID Based Object Locator
• Nathan Heuval – Rideau St. Lawrence – E-Mission Control
• Greg Borschneck – Frontenac, Addington and Lennox - Solar Cycle