A trio of South Shore students earned top marks at the recently held Canada Wide Science fair.
Lily Street and Kasia Kowalski representing Bayview Community School, Stella Bowles from Bridgewater Junior High and Teodora Milos from Park View were four of the 500 students from across the country chosen to attend the event in Ottawa.
Kowalski said the experience opened her eyes.
“It was inspiration and excitement. It was really the best week of my life. I was so happy to be learning and be around like-minded people. It was really quite life-changing.”
Milos echoed her sentiment.
She says while the science fair was a competition, she was impressed by the people she met.
“In Ottawa, I mean, [there were] the best of the best for the science fair projects. So you see, [from] all across Canada, really amazing and inspiring people.”
Team South Shore is bring home 3 medals this year from @cwsf_espc @ChrisMschris @SouthShoreRCE . We are super proud of every team member and their achievement at this level of inquiry based learning. @PVECPanthers @BJHSVikings @BCSbobcats @SMUScience @BernJordanMP @cathmckenna pic.twitter.com/W84d27LfGc
— South Shore Science (@SSRCE_science) May 17, 2018
Milos picked up a bronze medal in the senior category for her work to create an irrigation system.
She wrote a program to run on an inexpensive micro-computer that provides nutrients and water based on input from sensors in the soil.
Kowalski was awarded a bronze medal in the intermediate category for her project that details how fungi can help clean up oil spills.
Street’s project examined how well antibacterial cleaners worked.
And Bowles nabbed a silver for her project which explored how microscopic creatures are affected by organic pollution from straight pipes.
The winners were each also awarded scholarships to several universities for their work.
Their advisor, Jane Berrigan says to have these four students selected from over 100,000 science fair projects across the country is quite an achievement.
We are very proud of the Nova Scotia students who attended the @cwsf_espc this week. Together they’re taking home 49 awards and scholarships for their excellent work. Well done!! @nseducation @smuhalifax @SSRCE_science @HSTE_NS @KirstyDuncanMP #STEM pic.twitter.com/96VoSRCl1O
— SMUScience (@SMUScience) May 18, 2018
*Photo courtesy of Jane Berrigan
Reported by Ed Halverson
Twitter: @edwardhalverson
E-mail: halverson.ed@radioabl.ca
