HWDSB Students Bring Home the Hardware at 2021 Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair
11 Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board students “virtually” walked away from a recent science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competition with some serious honours.
The Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair (BASEF) is a competition for all Grade 7 to 12 students from Hamilton, Halton Region, Haldimand County, Norfolk County, County of Brant, and Six Nations. Students began the process of registering their projects in early February before having them submitted and judged over the course of March.
The virtual awards ceremony for BASEF’s 61st edition was held on April 8, 2021. Over 60 sponsors and charitable donors, along with 47 Special Award donors, offered cash prizes, awards, and scholarships totalling over $150,000. Many student participants will now go on to compete in the Canada-Wide Science Fair and the International Science and Engineering Fair.
View HWDSB’s winners below and click on their project names to learn about their submissions.
| HWDSB Participants at Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair 2021 | ||||
| Student Name | Level | School | Project Name | Awards won |
| Maria Chzhen
& Renny Wang |
Intermediate 9/10 | Westdale Secondary School | How Do Sleep Positions Affect Dreams In Teenagers? | · Gold Merit Award
· Canada-Wide Science Fair Trip Award · Ola Lunyk-Child Memorial Health Science Award – Second |
| Sarah Fergani | Junior 7/8 | Ancaster Senior | Comparing Water Electrolysis to Water + Salt Electrolysis | · Rotary Club of Hamilton-East Wentworth Award – Third
· Bronze Merit Award |
| Neha Gupta | Senior 11/12 | Westdale Secondary School | Microfluidic C. elegans electrotaxis procedure towards the detection of heavy metal residue in water | · ArcelorMittal Dofasco Environment Award
· McMaster University Faculty of Engineering Entrance Award · Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (Hamilton Branch) Award · Gold Merit Award · Primary Fluid Systems Pinnacle Second Best in Fair · ISEF Trip Award · Primary Fluid Systems Award · Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research Award |
| Yassine Bourenane | Junior 7/8 | Ancaster Senior | Using Body Heat to Generate Electricity | · Nikola Tesla Honourable Mention Award |
| Kaylee Zhang | Intermediate 9/10 | Westdale Secondary School | Soapy Bites | · ASM Materials Education Foundation Award |
| Zainab Al- Rammahi | Intermediate 9/10 | Ancaster High | M.A.R. (Mobile Autonomous Robot) – The Device to Detect Flammable Gasses | · Bronze Merit Award
· BASEF Inspiration Student Awards · Primary Fluid Systems Award · Venture Academy Scholarship |
| Violet Vanderwal | Junior 7/8 | Dundas Central Public | Let’s ‘solvent’ this mystery | · Chemical Institute of Canada (Hamilton Section) Award |
| Katelyn Johnson | Intermediate 9/10 | Westdale Secondary School | IS CO2 AFFECTING YOU? | · ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chemical Testing Award
· James A Winger Award · Bronze Merit Award |
| Mitchell Clapperton | Intermediate 9/10 | Westdale Secondary School | Reducing Wakes to Save Our Lakes – Optimizing Hull Design Using Computational Fluid Dynamics | · ArcelorMittal Dofasco Engineering Award
· Gowling WLG Innovation Award – Grand Winner · Dillon Consulting Science and Engineering Award · Gold Merit Award · Canada-Wide Science Fair Trip Award · Primary Fluid Systems Award · American Meteorological Society Award |
| Paul (Kyum) Lee | Intermediate 9/10 | Westdale Secondary School | Development of a 3d Cursor for Robotic arm Programming Optimization | · Association for Iron & Steel Technology Northern Chapter Award
· Mohawk College Electrotechnology – Electrical Engineering Award · Silver Merit Award · Canada-Wide Science Fair Trip Award · Hillfield Strathallan College Entrance Scholarship Award · Nikola Tesla Innovation Award – Gold · Primary Fluid Systems Award · Talkit.ca Computer Engineering Award – Second · Ted Rogers Innovation Award |
Congratulations to these innovative HWDSB students as well as all other BASEF participants! STEM continues to be an ever-growing field and we cannot wait to see what the future holds for these bright, young minds.
For more information about BASEF, visit its website. You can also watch a recording of the awards ceremony here.
Updated on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.