Science Fair Achievements

TOPS has a history of encouraging students to take part in science fair competitions. Science fairs are excellent ways of stimulating young minds to foster a love and devotion for a life of learning and professionalism. Students from Marc Garneau's TOPS Program have won awards at all levels of the Science Fair competitions for many years. We are proud of their achievements at the Toronto regional levels, and especially for their performance at the national level. On this page we have listed TOPS students' science fair achievements at the national level. We have had students win the Canada Wide Science Fair's top championship award. We also had students bring back Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals for their work.

• Science Fair Achievements Timeline

   

  • 2008 – Ottawa, ON
  • Bronze + Renewable Energy Award – Jessica Ngai – Drag or Not to Drag: A New VAWT Design
  • Total prize money and scholarships: $3400

   

  • 2007 – Truro, NS
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    Gold – Florence Chan and Alison Lee – Thermoelectricity: A Cool Idea or Hot Air?
  • Discovery Channel Math Award – Florence Chan and Alison Lee – Thermoelectricity
  • Honourable Mention – Gorick Ng and Chris Piggott – How Music Affects Concentration
  • Total prize money and scholarships: $6350

   

  • 2005 – Vancouver, BC
  
  • Nine out of 30 participants from Team Toronto were TOPS students. This is as many as some cities' whole team!
  • Intermediate Biotechnology Gold – Miaad Aliroteh and Niresan Seevaratnam – An Arm That Gets On Your Nerves
  • Senior Life Sciences Silver – Fuad Al-Amin and Tahbit Chowdhury – The Mathematical Perception: A Unified Theory
  • Senior Physical Sciences Silver – Alan Lam and David Lam – Tsunamis: Generation Propagation and Shore Interaction
  • Senior Engineering Bronze – Evgeny Ternovsky and Jaspreet Rayat– Dynamic Noise Cancellation Using Wave Superpositioning
  • Senior Physical Sciences Bronze – Karthik Ramanathan – Dark Matter: Missing Mass Investigation
  • Senior Automotive Honourable Mention – Evgeny Ternovsky and Jaspreet Rayat– Dynamic Noise Cancellation Using Wave Superpositioning
  • The Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science Scholarships – Karthik Ramanathan
  • The Canadian Psychological Association Award for Seniors – Fuad Al-Amin and Tahbit Chowdhury
  • The Petro-Canada Peer Innovation Award – Karthik Ramanathan
  • All Science Fair representatives also earned scholarships to prominent universities totalling $17 000.

   

  • 2004 – St. John's, NF
  • Gold – Fuad Al-Amin and Tahbit Chowdhury – Estimation
  • Bronze – Jessica Yu and Jimmy Xu – Physics of Homeruns
  • Canadian Mathematical Society Award – Jessica Yu and Jimmy Xu
  

  

   

   

  • 2003 – Calgary, AB
  • Honourable Mention – Fuad Al-Amin and Vlad Berbece - Subitizing

   

  • 2002 – Saskatoon, SK
  • Gold – Faizal Ismail and Mahvish Jafri – Boundary Layer Acceleration
  • Best Senior Project – Faizal Ismail and Mahvish Jafri
  • Best of Fair (National Champions) – Faizal Ismail and Mahvish Jafri

   

  • 2001 – Kingston, ON
  • Gold - Alex Ayers – A Virtual Approach to Mars
  • Queen’s Scholarship – Alex Ayers
  

   

  • 2000 – London, ON
  • Gold – Aaron Judah – Sonoluminescence II
  • Best Senior Project – Aaron Judah
  • Best of Fair (National Champion) – Aaron Judah (This project went on to win the Bronze Medal at the International Science Fair)
  • Gold – Aly Shivji and Hamid Roman – Digital Insect
  • TOPS students also won a number of ancillary awards as well.

   

  • 1999 – Edmonton, AB
  • Gold – Aaron Judah – Sonoluminescense
  • Junior Physics Award – Aaron Judah
  • Gold – Alex Ince Cushman – Revealing Fine Structure in Galaxies
  • Honourable Mention – Jay Weymouth and Edward Lo–Electromagnetism

   

  • 1998 - Timmins, ON
  • Silver – Aaron Judah – Thermoconductivity

  

• Garneau students have also done very well at the Toronto SciTech fair since its inception in 2000. In excess of 50 distinctions have been earned by our students at this very competitive fair, with 9 Golds in 2005 alone.