Science fair winners qualify for Charlottetown trip

Five Prince George science students have unlocked the mystery of what it takes to win a weeklong all-expense-paid trip to

Charlottetown, P.E.I.

The science fair projects they entered were all grand award winners at the 36th annual Central Interior Science Exhibition, held Saturday at UNBC.

Daniel O'Reilly of Immaculate Conception school (Another One Bites the Dust); his sister Emily O'Reilly of College Heights secondary (The Effects of Prunus armeniaca on HeLa Cancer Cells); Aimee Alspaugh, Brooke Tower of Westside Academy (Pure Future Biodiesel); and Caroline Kohlen of Westside Academy (Mate selection: Drosophila melanogaster) all qualified for the Canada Wide Science Fair in Charlottetown, May 12 to 19.

Daniel O'Reilly also won the Best in Exhibition, Level 1, and Best in Category, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Sciences awards. Travis Cruch of Immaculate Conception captured the Best In Exhibition Level 2 and Engineering Level 2 awards for his Blades Of Green Energy

project.

Other award winners were as follows:

Best-in-category

Automotive Sciences, Level 2, Fossil Fuels vs. Renewable Fuels, Madelynn Eliason; Westside Academy

Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Level 2, Concussion

Caper, Cecil MacRae; College Heights

Earth & Environmental Sciences, Level 2, Goo-be-gone, Angus Brochez; Decker Lake elementary (Burns Lake)

Health Sciences, Level 2, Maison sans douleur, Emma Dreher; Ecole Franco-Nord

Life Sciences, Level 2, The Power of Clean, William Hanlon, Adam Doucette; Immaculate Conception

Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Level 2, Rot'n Bugs, Matthias Steiner; Fraser Lake elementary-secondary

Earth & Environmental Sciences, Level I, Enlighten your board opinions, Felicia Brooks; Evelyn Dickson elementary (Vanderhoof),

Engineering, Level I, Pure Future Biodiesel, Aimee Alspaugh, Brooke Tower; Westside Academy

Health Sciences, Level I, The Effects of (apricot pit) Prunus armeniaca on HeLa Cancer Cells, Emily O'Reilly; College Heights secondary

Life Sciences, Level I, Mate selection: Drosophila melanogaster, Caroline Kohlen; Westside Academy