Team Canada brings home First Place Grand Awards from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair After competing against over 1400 students worldwideDiagnosing breast cancer, a new form of electricity and antibiotic resistance took top prizes this week as Chet Gervais, a grade 11 student from LaSalle, Ontario, Kartik Madiraju, a grade 10 student from Brossard, Quebec, and Adrian Veres, a grade 10 student from Montreal, Quebec, all brought home First Place Grand Awards from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), held in Phoenix, Arizona, May 8-14. Close to 90 per cent of Canadian projects won awards.Judged on their creative ability, scientific thought, as well as their thoroughness, skill and clarity, students at Intel ISEF compete in 14 scientific categories with most projects being entered into the environmental sciences, and medicine and health categories. More than 1,000 experts volunteer their time to judge the projects, including Nobel Laureates and other world-class experts. More than 1400 students compete at Intel ISEF making it the world's largest science fair.Team Canada wins three First Place Grand Awards(See full list of awards below)Chet Gervais won $3,250 in prizes** and the First Place Grand Award in Medicine and Health for his project on Digital Mammography. Gervais' patent pending breast imaging system, the first of its kind, provides approximately 100 times more information than current technologies in a faster and painless way. Using Gervais' multi-modality fusion breast imaging system, diagnosticians can also manipulate data in ways that were previously impossible.Kartik Madiraju won $4,000 and the First Place Grand Award in Environmental Science for his project focused on using bacteria to generate electricity. Using non-toxic, renewable energy resources is important to Madiraju, who discovered how to magnetize bacteria to create voltage peaks of more than 65 mV for up to two hours.Adrian Veres took home $3,000 for his project on logic genomics, combining biotechnology and computational sciences to resolve antibiotic resistance. Printre studentii canadieni se afla si Adrian Veres, venit din Romania la varsta de 4 ani, in prezent student la Jean-de-Brbeuf College in Montreal.FELICITARI ADRIAN!
Canadian Students Rank Highest Internationally in Medicine and Health, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry at World's Largest Science Fair
