Canadian Students Awarded Significant
Prizes
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Canadian students win a total of 14 awards; US$106,700 awarded to Canadian students.
- Han Jie (Austin) Wang of
Vancouver British Columbia
received the Gordon E. Moore Award,
a US$75,000 prize named in honor of
the Intel co-founder.
- Dennis Drewnik of Winnipeg,
Manitoba wins Intel ISEF Best of Category Award in Plant
Sciences.
PHOENIX, May 13, 2016 /CNW/ - For the second
year in a row, a Vancouver high
school student was awarded first place at this year's Intel
International Science and Engineering Fair, which is the world's
largest high school science research competition.
Han Jie (Austin) Wang, 18, is the
recipient of the first place Gordon E.
Moore Award and US$75,000 for
developing microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that more efficiently
convert organic waste into electricity.
His win follows that of Raymond
Wang, who won first place in 2015 for engineering a new air
inlet system for airplane cabins to improve air quality and curb
disease transmission.
Canada had an excellent showing
at this year's fair with eight students winning awards.
"Back-to-back wins showcase how competitive Canadians can be on
a global scale," said Nancy
Demerling, marketing manager, Intel Canada. "Intel believes
that young people are the key to future innovation. Education in
science, technology, engineering and math is a great foundation.
Combine that with skills such as critical thinking, collaboration,
and digital literacy and you have the capability to create amazing
projects like these students have done."
Additional awards were presented to the following Canadian
students:
- Matteo Bomben (Richmond Hill, ON): Third Award of
$1,000, Cellular and Molecular
Biology
- Rachel Brouwer (Bedford, NS): Second Award of $1,500, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Emily Cross (Thunder Bay, ON): Fourth Award of
$500, Earth and Environmental
Sciences
- Marcus Deans (Windsor, ON): Fourth Award of $500, Environmental Engineering
- Dennis Drewnik (Winnipeg,
MB): Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000, Plant Sciences; First Award of
$3,000, Plant Sciences; Dudley R.
Herschbach SIYSS Award $3,000
- Daniel Mogilny (Richmond Hill,
ON): Award of $5,000 for
outstanding project in the systems software category., Oracle
Academy; $1,500 Data Award, GoDaddy;
Second Award of $1,500, Systems
Software;
- Han Jie (Austin) Wang
(Vancouver): Award of
$1,200, China Association for Science
and Technology (CAST); Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of
$5,000, Microbiology; First Award of
$3,000, Microbiology
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program
of Society for Science & the Public, honors the world's most
promising student scientists, inventors and engineers. Finalists
are selected annually from hundreds of affiliated fairs. Their
projects are then evaluated on-site by approximately 1,000 judges
from nearly every scientific discipline, each with a Ph.D. or the
equivalent of six years of related professional experience in one
of the scientific disciplines.
The 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
featured more than 1,700 young scientists selected from 419
affiliate fairs in 77 countries, regions and territories. In
addition to the top winners, approximately 600 finalists received
awards and prizes for their innovative research, including 22 "Best
of Category" winners, who each received a US$5,000 prize. The Intel Foundation also awarded
a US$1,000 grant to each winner's
school and to the affiliated fair they represent.
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2016 is
funded jointly by Intel and the Intel Foundation with additional
awards and support from dozens of other corporate, academic,
governmental and science-focused organizations. This year,
approximately US$4 million was
awarded.
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