Widdifield students in the running for all-expenses trip to Sweden

Team North Bay returns tomorrow (Saturday) from the Canada-Wide Science Fair, where Widdifield’s Emily Mah and Jazlyn McGuinty won the Canadian Stockholm Junior Water Prize.

They’re one of three projects in the running for an all-expenses paid trip to Sweden for the international Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition.

At the North Bay Regional Science Fair their project “Using Tannin-Embedded Biopolymers to Extract Heavy Metals from Contaminated Water” won the TransCanada Award, the Greater Nipissing Stewardship Council Award – Intermediate or Senior, the Dr. J.M. Filion Environment Award, and a gold medal in the Senior Earth and Environment category;

Skye White and Ian McCormack from West Ferris and St Luke’s Hanna McDonald also travelled to Fredericton, New Brunswick for the national science fair.

460 students from across the country were there.

At the North Bay Regional Science Fair, White and McCormack’s project “Looking for Micro-plastic in Water with Nile Red” won the Rotary Club of North Bay Award of Excellence, the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority Science Award, and a gold medal in the Intermediate Earth and Environment  category;

McDonald’s project “Bite Me” won the Shulman Travel Award, and a gold medal in the Junior Life Science category at the North Bay Regional event.

(Photo submitted: Team North Bay @ CWSF 2019 (left to right): Hannah McDonald, Emily Mah, Jazlyn McGuinty, Ian McCormack, and Skye White)