Three students from northern Manitoba will be heading to Carleton University in Ottawa next month for the Canada Wide Science Fair.

 

The Northern Manitoba Regional Science Fair took place here in Thompson at Ecole Riverside School last weekend, with students from grades four through eight competing in different categories. The categories included life, health, physical and environmental as well as computer, math and engineering. There was also a category for general projects.

 

Jarek Osika from Flin Flon, as well as Samara Green and Anaya Permanad from Ecole Riverside School, will be headed to the Canada Wide Science Fair to represent our region after their projects were named as this year’s best.

 

Osika's project, which was given gold in the grade seven and eight physical and environmental category, was titled "Exploring 1420 MHz". The project was set up to try and determine which shape of antenna worked best for communication. According to his results, a horn shaped antenna is more useful than a dish shaped antenna.

 

Green and Permanand worked together on their project, which attempted to determine how music affects the overall heart and blood pressure of a person. They were presented with gold in the grade seven and eight health category.

 

Below is the complete list of the top projects from this years' regional science fair:

 

Grade Four

Gold: Reese Beavis and Mackenna Steeves (General), David and Michael Hynes (Life)

Silver: Soliman El-Rennawi (Life), Paige Morin and Ava Halcrow (General), Hallie Eveleigh (General), Tieryn Fisher (General)

Bronze: Michelle Coleman and Kayla Bergeron (General), Max McRae and Conner Garson (General), Payton Kerfort (General), Mercedes Rowe (General), Brooke Merton (Life)

 

Grade Five

Gold: Adrianna Ouelette (General), Kaitlyn Krentz (Life)

Silver: Claire Hall (General), Nolan Merton (Life), Cashton Harmer (General)

Bronze: Davian Law (General), Egypt Cook (Life)

 

Grade Six

Gold: Harshan Sidhu and Malay Desai (General), Addie Neill (Life)

Silver: Kenneth Morris (General), Shayla McLellan-Boychuck and Chelsey Andrews (Life), Allie Thevenot (Life)

Bronze: Keerat Kaur Rai (General)

 

Grade Seven/Eight

Gold: Tori May (Life), Samara Green and Anaya Permanand (Health), Jarek Osika (Physical and Environment), Cooper Easthman (Computer, Math and Engineering)

Silver: Taylor Dundas and Cole Ledoux (Physical and Environment), Omran El-Rennewi (Life), MacKenzi Schwartz (Life), Madison Evenson-Bonnefoy and Hannah Kraychuk (Health), Luan Gouws (Computer, Math and Engineering)

Bronze: Ethan Portey and Madexx Long (Physical and Environment), Brazil Hasan (Life), Summer Korte (Life), Jazleen Kaur and Kirandeep Sawna (Life), Morgan Markham (Health, Computer, Math and Engineering)

 

Best Overall General Science (Grades 4-6)

Adrianna Ouelette

 

Best Overal Life Science (Grades 4-6)

Addie Neill

 

Best Overall Science (Grades 4-6)

Addie Neill

 

Best Overall Science (Grades 7-8)

Jarek Osika

 

Best In Fair

Jarek Osika

 

 

Photo courtesy of Kyle Darbyson, Thompson Citizen