Students from the Halton District School Board (HDSB) delivered outstanding performances at the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair (BASEF), held in late March. BASEF is a regional competition that offers young innovators the chance to showcase their talents in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Students from the Halton District School Board (HDSB) delivered outstanding performances at the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair (BASEF), held in late March. BASEF is a regional competition that offers young innovators the chance to showcase their talents in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
This year, HDSB students submitted 123 entries, with 70 projects receiving awards. Collectively, students earned $17,965 in cash prizes and $70,000 in scholarships, thanks to the support of generous sponsors and donors. Additionally, two projects have qualified for the International Science & Engineering Fair, and 10 projects will move on to the Canada-Wide Science Fair.
Top Honors
Primary Fluid Systems Best in Fair Pinnacle Award
Evan Budz (Grade 9, Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School)
Project: Development of an Autonomous Bionic Sea Turtle Robot to Conduct Ecological Monitoring using AI
Primary Fluid Systems Third Best in Fair Pinnacle Award
Anish Rathod (Grade 12, Burlington Central High School)
Project: PIONEER: Pipe Inspection and Observation for Non-Destructive Evaluation and Environmental Review
Projects Advancing to the Canada-Wide Science Fair
Imran Allarakhia (Grade 9, Abbey Park High School): CareBotix in Motion: Advanced Simulation Environments & VLA Models for Robust Dexterous Manipulation
Jacob Michael LeBlanc (Grade 10, Abbey Park High School): Re-evaluating AQHI: A New Model for Assessing Wildfire Smoke and Benzo(a)pyrene Health Risks
Lohitaksh Badarala (Grade 8, Bruce Trail Public School): Q-CaDD: Accelerating In Silico Methodologies with Quantum Computation and Machine Learning for EGFR
Anish Rathod (Grade 12, Burlington Central High School): PIONEER
Evan Budz (Grade 9, Dr. Frank J. Hayden Secondary School): Autonomous Bionic Sea Turtle Robot
Jasmine Wang (Grade 10, Iroquois Ridge High School): Wildfire Detection and Prediction System Using a Sequential Transformer Model
Claire Marsh (Grade 11, M.M. Robinson High School): Autism Identification Tool: An AI Approach to Reducing Diagnostic Barriers
Eva Duan (Grade 10, Oakville Trafalgar High School): Sodium Alginate-Chitosan Hydrogel Burn Wound Dressing with pH-Sensitive Infection Detection
Rahul Rao (Grade 8, W.H. Morden Public School): The Power of Pectin: Attenuating Toxic By-Products for Enhanced Hydrogel Drug Delivery
Zoya Waseem (Grade 9, White Oaks Secondary School): The Cancer MIRACLE: A Novel Diagnostic Model Using Salivary miRNA Profiling for Oral Cancer Detection
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