Canadian teens triumph at world-class science fair

Canadian teens triumph at world-class science fair
Last Updated Mon, 16 May 2005 18:41:50 EDT

PHOENIX, ARIZ. - Three young Canadians have beat out millions of challengers to take the top prizes at the world's largest science fair in Phoenix, Ariz.

Chet Gervais, a Grade 11 student at Sandwich Secondary School in Lasalle, Ont., near the Michigan border, won the grand prize for medicine and health for developing a new mammogram system to screen for breast cancer.

Gervais earned $4,128 in prize money for his prototype medical ultrasound system. It uses software to model a three-dimensional, high-resolution image from existing two-dimensional screening equipment.

Diagnosticians can use Gervais's prototype to manipulate data in ways that were previously impossible.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/05/16/scifair050516.html

Sputniks all over again? Now if everyone wakes up maybe science will become important again?

Winnipeg teen wins prize for HIV research
Last Updated Fri, 13 May 2005 15:48:52 EDT
CBC News

WINNIPEG - An 18-year-old Winnipeg high school student has won a national award for groundbreaking research that could help prevent HIV/AIDS.

Will Turk, a Grade 12 student at Grant Park High School, won the $5,000 first prize in the Aventis Biotech Challenge, a national science competition for high-school students.

Turk became interested in his particular research project after seeing Searching for Hawa's Secret, a National Film Board movie about Dr. Frank Plummer, a researcher at Winnipeg's National Microbiology Lab. The film was about a group of sex-trade workers in Kenya who had remained HIV-free despite repeated exposure to the virus.
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/05/13/HIV050513.html

This is amazing! We sure grow them smart up here, don't we. BTW, yea Winnipeg.

Showing up their 'neighbors' to the south reveals much about their different approach to the role of government ....

Signed,
Frustrated Liberal from NJ ...

They beat out Harvard and hundreds of other schools.

http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/contests/2005/results/

Congrats to all our students and THANKS for posting this, I had missed the news and hadn't heard this.