2004/2005

Team Members: Craig Chittenden & Brandon Shiplo

Project Title: “ Agricultural Effects of ‘Smoke Water’ ”

Awards:

bronze medalists
special award: Chemical Institute of Canada - Hamilton Section Award
special award: Dr. Colin J. L. Lock Memorial Chemistry Award
special award: McMaster University Department of Chemistry Award

2005/2006

Team Members: Chris Foster & Xiong Zhao

Project Title: “The Use of Acetone as an Additive in Biofuel Mixtures”

Awards:

silver medalists
Chris and Xiong represented Canada at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF) in Indianapolis, Indiana. Congratulations!
special award: Canadian Nuclear Society Award - Int. or Senior
special award: Chemical Institute of Canada- Hamilton Section Award
special award: Mayor's Award - Third
special award: Mohawk College Chemical and Environmental Engineering Technology Award - environmental studies
special award: Primary Fluid Systems Engineering Award - Second
special award: Professional Engineers of Ontario-Hamilton Chapter Award - First
special award: Hydro One Energy Ambassador Award

2006/2007

Team Members: Rose Yee & Victoria Yum

Project Title: “Oh, where has my memory gone? (a planarian’s perspective)”

Awards:

silver medalists
Rose and Victoria represented Canada at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Congratulations!
special award: Society for In Vitro Biology

2007/2008

At “BASEF 2008", North Park’s thirteen-member team brought home the grand prize for
top secondary school! We were awarded the Herb Gildea Memorial Trophy. Way to go, NPC!

Team Members: Meaghen Rollins & Carly McDonald

Project Title: “The Unearthing of Flavonoids”

Awards:

gold medalists
Meaghen & Carly represented Canada at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF) in Atlanta, Georgia. Congratulations!
special award: Ricoh Sustainable Development Award

Team Members: Michelle Reid & Alexa Small

Project Title: “Petroleum Snackers: A Biological Solution to Oil Spills”

Awards:

gold medalists
this project went on to the Canada-wide fair in Ottawa
special award: Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy Hamilton Branch Award - First
special award: D.E.N.M. Mining & Mineral Processing Award
special award: ArcelorMittal Dofasco Market Development and Product Application Award
special award: Nipissing University Regional Science Fair

Team Members: Vivian Pang & Ling Iv

Project Title: “An Unsolved Mystery: The Origin of Life”

Awards:

silver medalists
this project went on to the Canada-wide fair in Ottawa
special award: The Investigative Science Award - Second
special award: McMaster University Department of Chemistry Award
special award: Zonta Club of Hamilton Award

Team Members: Nicole Yang & Emily Mann

Project Title: “The Sweetest Thing”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: Chemical Institute of Canada- Hamilton Section Award

Team Members: Dishan Weeratunga & Sagar Patel

Project Title: “Antifreeze My Genes!” – The Effect of Antifreeze Proteins on Plant Survival

Awards:

bronze medalists
special award: McMaster University Faculties of Science and Engineering Tuition Award

Team Member: Nikesh Patel

Project Title: “A Pillbug’s Life”

Awards:

bronze medalist

Team Members: Meagan O’Donnell & Stephanie Hinton

Project Title: “Making Bacteria Glow with a Firefly Gene”

Awards:

special award: McMaster University Faculties of Science and Engineering Tuition Award

2008/2009

Team Members: Meaghen Rollins & Leah O’Shea

Project Title: “Salting the Food Web: A Decision to Flea or Fight”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: Nipissing University Regional Science Fair
special award: Mohawk College Chemical and Environmental Engineering Technology Award - intermediate or senior applied chemistry
special award: Zonta Club of Hamilton Award
special award: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Award

Team Members: Hilary Mann & Shivon Azwim

Project Title: “It Will or Walnut Grow”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Award

Team Member: Mitchell Keene

Project Title: “The Genome Sizes of Land Plants”

Awards:

bronze medalist

Team Members: Sara Abu Obaid & Ream Elbadri

Project Title: “Different Environments. Different Populations.”

Awards:

honourable mention
special award: American Meteorological Society

2009/2010

Team Members: Sara Abu Obaid & Ream Elbadri

Project Title: “Are Eco-tergents Truly ‘Gents’?”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: American Meteorological Society
special award: McMaster University Faculties of Science and Engineering Tuition Award
special award: Royal Botanical Gardens Award
additional award: BASEF Chairman’s Award
This project was selected to go on to the Canada-Wide science fair in Peterborough, Ontario in May, 2010.

Team Members: Dhruv Jain & Christopher Rowley

Project Title: “Is your brain in the game? Has your homunculus been updated?”

Awards:

bronze medalists
special award: Mu Alpha Theta Award
special award: Dr. Nicola Simmons Award in Cognition Studies

Team Member: Ajit Panag & Kim Nguyen

Project Title: “A Germination Fascination: Compost & Artificially-Made Soil, Take It or Leaf It”

Awards:

bronze medalists

Team Members: Hilary Mann & Mary Ma

Project Title: “Let’s Go Green by Going Grey”

2010/2011

Team Members: Ream Elbadri & Emma Jennings

Project Title: “Magnetic Fields: Tools for Healing or Health Hazards?”

Awards:

gold medalists
special award: Dr. M. Doyle Award (best biology project)
special award: Hidden Science Award
special award: OCRiT-SCCRI Regenerative Medicine Award
This project was selected to go on to the Canada-Wide science fair in Toronto, Ontario in May, 2011.

Team Members: Hilary Mann & Mary Ma

Project Title: “Mushroom Compost: The Boom of the Future?”

Awards:

silver medalists

Team Members: Summer Chaudhry & Mei Vong

Project Title: “S’OILED SOIL”

Awards:

bronze medalists

2011/2012

Team Members: Nishan Panag & Shannin Yee

Project Title: “ Quantity of Bacteria on an Apple’s Skin”

Awards:

bronze medalists

2012/2013

Team Member: Josh Mitchell

Project Title: “ Macroscopic Particle Simulator in C#”

Awards:

Mu Alpha Theta Award
Canadian Nuclear Society (Golden Horseshoe Branch) Award

2013/2014

Team Members: Rob Cousens & Jonah Moore

Project Title: “The Effects on Reaction Time Due to Distracted Driving”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: Mohawk College School of Engineering Technology Award (Building & Construction Sciences Award – Transportation Engineering Award)
special award: Award for Excellence in Science & Technology

Team Members: Neha Malhotra & Shannin Yee

Project Title: “Pass Me the Caffeine!”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: Laurentian Chapter of SETAC Award (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry)

2014/2015

Team Members: Yash Bhamare & Noah Kunej

Project Title: “Age is but a number...or is it?”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: BASEF 500 Award

Team Member: Joel Ruhland

Project Title: “Complex Harmonic Motion as a Means for Pseudorandom Number Generation”

Awards:

bronze medalist
special award: ArcelorMittal Dofasco – Information Systems Award
special award: Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award
special award: Mohawk College Computer Science & Information Technology Computer Excellence Award
special award: McMaster University Faculties of Science and Engineering Entrance Award

2015/2016

Team Member: Grace Zhou

Project Title: “Can They Survive Our Meddling?”

Awards:

gold medalist
special award: BASEF 500 Award
special award: Primary Fluid Systems Award
special award: University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship

Team Members: Angus Cowan & Zayed Elbadri

Project Title: “Dynamic Street Furniture”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: BASEF 500 Award
special award: McMaster University Faculties of Science & Engineering Entrance Award

Team Members: Markus Kunej & Nakul Malhotra

Project Title: “Busy Brains: A Study of the Brain through Technological Advancement”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: Mohawk College Computer Science & Information Technology Computer Excellence Award
special recognition: from the Michael G. DeGroote Institute

Team Members: Amy Du & Harneet Hothi

Project Title: “Beyond What the Eye Can See...”

Awards:

silver medalists

2016/2017

Team Member: Kirsten Josling

Project Title: “Heads or Tails?”

Awards:

gold medalist
special award: BASEF 500 Award
special award: Mohawk College Mathematics Award
special award: Dr. Nicola Simmons Award in Cognition Studies

Team Members: Jassy Singh & Sunny Singh

Project Title: “Easier Done Than Said”

Awards:

silver medalists
special award: BASEF 500 Award

Team Member: Lina Elsaadi

Project Title: “Destress and Color!”

Awards:

bronze medalist
special award: The Research Institute at St. Joe’s Hamilton, Health Research Award

2017/2018

Team Member: Markus Kunej (senior)

Project Title: “The Echo Belt: Navigation Technology for the Visually Impaired”

Awards:

gold medalist (gold medal + $100)
special award: ArcelorMittal Dofasco Award – Market Development and Product Applications Award ($100)
special award: Doris Casey and Gwenn Nicolls Disability Solutions Award ($100)
special award: Hillfield Strathallan College Award of Excellence – Innovation Award ($100)
special award: Yale Science & Engineering Association (certificate & medal)
special award: Mohawk College Computer Science & Information Technology Excellence Award ($50)
special award: Primary Fluid Systems Award ($100)
special award: Professional Engineers of Ontario – National Engineering Month Prize for Exceptional Engineering Innovation ($500)
This project was (one of sixteen) selected to go on to the Canada-Wide science fair in Ottawa, Ontario in May, 2018. In Ottawa, Markus was awarded a “Gold Excellence Award”.

Team Member: Sean Romel (senior)

Project Title: “Detecting skin cancer with neural networks”

Awards:

gold medalist (gold medal + $100)
special award: ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiative (certificate)
special award: Mohawk College Computer Science & Information Technology Excellence Award ($50)
special award: Primary Fluid Systems Award ($100)
This project was (one of sixteen) selected to go on to the Canada-Wide science fair in Ottawa, Ontario in May, 2018.

Team Members: Michael Meleka & Jacob Meleka (senior)

Project Title: “The Power of pH”

Awards:

silver medalists (silver medals + $80 each)
special award: BASEF 500 Award ($500)
special award: University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship ($1000)
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Team Members: Hanna Gamelin & Karman Phangura (senior)

Project Title: “Using Math and Chemistry to Investigate Biology”

Awards:

bronze medalists (bronze medals + $50 each)

Team Member: Harsimranjeet Singh (intermediate)

Project Title: “Chemical or Natural: a decision that could change your life!”

Award:

bronze medalist (bronze medal + $50)

Team Member: Sungwon Jung (intermediate)

Project Title: “Conditions for Enzymes to be Zippy”

Award:

NPC (BASEF) award ($50)

2018/2019

Team Member: Jacob Meleka (senior)

Project Title: “HealthNet: Revolutionizing Health Care with Data Aggregation and Convolutional Neural Networks”

Awards:

silver medalist (silver medal + $80)
special award: ArcelorMittal Dofasco – Human Resources Training and Development Award ($100)
special award: Talkit.ca Computer Engineering Award ($100)
special award: McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Entrance Award ($1000)
This project was selected to go on to the Canada-Wide science fair in Fredericton, New Brunswick in May, 2019.

Team Members: Devyanee Mehta & Winni Situ (senior)

Project Title: “The Effect of Colour on Reaction Time”

Awards:

silver medalists (silver medals + $80 apiece)
special award: BASEF Inspiration Student Award ($500)

Team Member: Abigail Ruhland (senior)

Project Title: “The Effect of Technology on Attention Span”

Awards:

bronze medalist (bronze medal + $60)
special award: International Science and Engineering Affiliated Fair Award – American Psychological Association

Team Member: Lina Elsaadi (senior)

Project Title: “Arabinose: An On/Off Switch for Gene Expression”

Award:

bronze medalist (bronze medal + $60)

2019/2020

Team Member: Harsimranjeet Singh (senior)

Project Title: “SpeakOut: A mobile app designed to assist the social communication of individuals with ASD”

Awards:

silver medalist (silver medal + $80)
special award: Doris Casey & Gwen Nicolls Disability Solutions Award ($100)
special award: McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Entrance Award ($3000)
special award: Procor Engineering Award – Senior ($150)

Team Member: Gurnirmal Kaur (intermediate)

Project Title: “The RLX-Glove: A Tool for Managing Stress”

Awards:

silver medalist (silver medal + $80)
special award: Primary Fluid Systems Award ($100)
This project was selected for Canada-Wide recognition (sponsored by Ontario Power Generation).

2020/2021

no participants from NPC this year (due to COVID)

2021/2022

Team Member: Gurnirmal Kaur (senior)

Project Title: EzerBot: Detecting Phrases Indicative of Emotional Distress within Online Platforms

Awards:

silver medalist
special award: ArcelorMittal Dofasco Medical Department Award
special award: Gowling WLG Innovation Award - Runner-up
special award: Hillfield Strathallan College Award of Excellence - Innnovation Award
special award: U. S. Agency for International Developement (USAID) Award
special award: McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Entrance Award
special award: Dr. Nicola Simmons Award in Cognition Studies
This project was selected to advance to the Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF).

2022/2023

Team Member: AbdulRahman Odejayi (senior)

Project Title: Predicting House Prices Using Machine Learning

Award:

bronze medalist

Team Member: Caitlin Phillips (senior)

Project Title: American Sign Language (ASL) Digital Translator

Award:

special award: McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Entrance Award

2023/2024

Team Member: Cordelia Simmons (senior)

Project Title: Hydroplaning Detection and Prevention using an AI Neural Network

Awards:

silver medalist
special award: Mohawk College Electrotechnology - Electrical Engineering Award
This project advanced to the Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF) in May, 2024 in Ottawa, Ontario and was awarded a silver “Excellence Award”.

Team Member: Lily Song (senior)

Project Title: Talk to the Hand

Awards:

gold medalist
special award: ArcelorMittal Dofasco Commercial Department Award
special award: McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Entrance Award
This project advanced to the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in May, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.