Prizes awarded to young scientists at youth event on campus

The University of Calgary played host to another great Calgary Youth Science Fair April 15-19. Held at the Olympic Oval for the third consecutive year, the annual citywide event celebrated the work of nearly 1,000 students in grades five to 12. A strong team of 12 finalists from Calgary will be heading to the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Windsor this May. Sujay Nagaraj has been selected to represent Calgary at the Intel International Science Fair in May in Los Angeles.

Chancellor Jim Dinning congratulated all participants on their projects and encouraged them to apply to the University of Calgary when preparing for post-secondary education. This year's best overall project winner was Ankita Saxena, grade 12, for her project, Protein Aggregation States in TBI & AD. Saxena received the top prize of a Chancellor's Club Bursary totaling $2,500.

Congratulations to all the 2014 CYSF award winners!

The winners of Schulich School of Engineering-sponsored awards (by category) are:

Intermediate level (grades 9-10)

• Parker Link, Grade 9, first prize for intermediate or senior level project involving solving a problem or creating a product for project entitled Non-Binary Information Storage

Senior level (grades 11-12)

• Bennett Leong, Grade 12, second prize for intermediate or senior level project involving solving a problem or creating a product for project entitled De-icing Light Aircraft

View all of the science fair award winners in UToday.