1998 Awards and Prizes

2005 Awards and Prizes

 2004 Awards and Prizes

2003 Awards and Prizes

2002 Awards and Prizes

 2001 Awards and Prizes

2000 Awards and Prizes

1999 Awards and Prizes

1998 Awards and Prizes

1997 Awards and Prizes

Awards and Prizes, with 1998's winners are sorted by type.

Overall Awards
Division Awards
Specialty Awards:
Nationally Initiated
Provincially Initiated
Nominations for a Provincial Winner
VIRSF - Local Award Sponsors


Overall Awards
Sponsored by SAYS
The top five projects in the 1998 fair (from grades 7 to 12). These students represented the Vancouver Island Region at the Canada Wide Science Fair in May .
First: Suzy Morris
  Mud Pies - Nutrition from Soil
Second: Yasumori Aoki
  What is the Wall Climber?
Third: Gabrielle Vinay
  Ethnopharmacology
Fourth: Philipp Hertel
  The Genetic Variance of Wild Stock vs. Hatchery Rainbow Trout
Fifth: Martin Conklin
  Hydroponic Circuits

Division Awards
Sponsored by SAYS
Up to five projects are awarded trophies in each of the following catagories.

 

Senior grades 10 - 12

First: Rizwan Sultan
  Diabetes Mellitus: Managed or Mismanaged

 

Junior grades 8 - 9

First: Christopher Greer
  Pedestrian-created Pollution
Second: Yoshiko Hara
  Time flies - or does it? How does One Perceive Time?
Third: Sarah Chettleburgh
  Growing Garry Oaks
Fourth: Jay Slobodan
  La Friction et al Motion Perpetuelle
Fifth: Heather Taddy
  El Nino

 

Intermediate grades 6 - 7

First: Catherine Buschhaus
  Exterminating Extravaganza
Second: Sean Owens
  Which Pollens Do Pines Prefer?
Third: Michelle Alexander and Adrienne Munday
  Aqua Air
Fourth: Donna Chamberlain
  Goldfish Growth Rates in Communities
 Fifth: Chelsea Yaskow
  Negative Labelling and Self Esteem: Is There a Relationship?

 

Elementary grades 4 - 5

First: Henry Baxter
  A Safer Medical Syringe
Second: Ben Cunningham and Robert Vanderlinde
  Does Antibacterial Soap Kill Germs Better than Regular Soap?
Third: Kaetlynd McRae
  Can Mathematical Patterns Be Found in Bach's Prelude and Fugue?
Fourth: Shona Macdonald
  Why does Water Meander Down a Windowpane?
Fifth: Aminah Malik
  How Kool Are the Colours in Kool-Aid and Coloured Pens?

Specialty Awards

Sponsor

Award

Recipient

University of Victoria Scholarship to the best ranked Senior student $500.00 towards tuition Gabrielle Vinay, Ethnopharmacology
Zonta International $300.00 plus travel costs to CWSF. Suzy Morris, Mud Pies - Nutrition from Soil

 

Nationally Initiated

Chemical Institute of Canada Certificate Brad Archibald, Bathing Suit Blues
AECL Research Company Science Award  Certificate Yasumori Aoki, What's the Wall Climber?
Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy  Award Melanie Greene, Water Renewal

 

Provincially Initiated

Alzheimer Society $50.00 Tracy Hansen, Age and Memory
American Association of Physics Teachers, BC chapter $50.00 Yasunori Aoki, What's the Wall Climber?
BC Hydro $100 + Perpetual Trophy/keeper Maria Unterberger, Alcohol as a Fuel: Recycling Wastes into Energy
BC Ministry of Employment Investment  Award  Martin Conklin, Hydroponic Circuits
BC Ministry of the Environment Perpetual Trophy Philipp Hertel, The Genetic Variance of Wild Stock vs. Hatchery Rainbow Trout
Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia Award Perpetual Trophy/keeper Joseph Crapo, The Effects of Acid Rain on Fir Seedlings
Division For Advancement of Women in Engineering Geosciences [DAWEG] $50.00 Michelle Alexander and Adrienne Munday, Aqua Air
Forest Renewal BC Award  $250.00 Sean Owens, Which Pollens do Pines Prefer?
Science Council of BC Award $100 for student; $500 for local teacher Gabrielle Vinay, Ethnopharmacology
Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology $100.00 Suzy Morris, Mud Pies - Nutrition from Soil
Truck Loggers' Association of BC Perpetual Trophy/keeper Sarah Chettleburgh, Growing Garry Oaks

 

Nominations for a Provincial Winner

Multiactive Education Award

$300
Matthew Currie, Microcore Technologies
Association of Professional Biologists

 Award
Gabrielle Vinay, Ethnopharmacology

 

VIRSF - Local Award Sponsors

Drs. Rosemary and Walter Balfour $50/$25 First: Trevor Anderson, Freezing Lift - Second: Dylan Kelk, Rocket Car
BC Hydro South Island Office Region $50.00 and Perpetual Plaque Christopher Greer, Pedestrian-created Pollution
Drs. J. Browning & D. Berry Award Ben Cunningham and Robert Vanderlinde, Does Antibacterial Soap Kill Germs Better Than Regular Soap?
Canadian Meterological Oceanographic Society Oceanographic Prize: Kira Froese and Megan Radford, Is Species Diversity an Indicator of Pollution? Meteorological Prize: Heather Taddy, El Nino
Chemical Institute of Canada, Vancouver Island Section Aminah Malik, How Kool are the Colours in Kool-Aid and Coloured Pens?
BC Institute of Agrologists Gabrielle Vinay, Ethnopharmacology, Philipp Hertel, The Genetic Variance of Wild Stock vs. Hatchery Rainbow Trout, Peter Hwang and Derek Wong, Decay and Preservation, Aidan Brand, Bacteria in Beef, Kendall Motherwell and Alyssa Godau, How do Plants Grow?
Nathan Geminiano Award $100 / Trophy Martin Conklin, Hydroponic Circuits
Alexa Geminiano Award $100 / Trophy Suzy Morris, Mud Pies - Nutrition from Soil
Geological Association of Canada Book Prizes Pranav Chintalapati and Nicholas Rowlands, How Does the Earth Shake?; Kevin Turner, Does the Environment Affect Crystal Growth?; Michael Lewis, The Greenhouse Effect; Heather Taddy, El Nino; Christa Halling, Crystals, Their Growth, Their Uses and Their Beauty
American Society of Heating, Refridgeration and Air Conditioning Engineers Yasunori Aoki, What's the Wall Climber?
Gordon Patterson Awards $50.00 (3) Catherine Buschhaus, Exterminating Extravaganza; Kaetlynd McRae, Can Mathematical Patterns be Found in Bach's Prelude and Fugues; Shona Macdonald, Why Does Water Meander Down a Windowpane?
Rotary Club of Victoria Senior Prize: Angela Hill, Water Everywhere, But Do We Have Enough to Drink?; Junior Prize: Morgan Gregson, Cleaning Up Oil Spills
University of Victoria Social Science Chairs Scroll Trophy/Book Prize Dana Pearson and Robin Tilby, Right or Left?
University of Victoria Science Chairs Scroll Trophy/Book Prize Henry Baxter, A Safer Medical Syringe

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