{"id":8633,"date":"2019-05-17T18:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=8633"},"modified":"2019-05-17T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:24:56","slug":"team-fraser-valley-shines-at-the-canada-wide-science-fair-sarah-and-neelah-are-bringing-home-the-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/05\/17\/team-fraser-valley-shines-at-the-canada-wide-science-fair-sarah-and-neelah-are-bringing-home-the-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Fraser Valley shines at the Canada Wide Science Fair! Sarah and Neelah are bringing home the Silver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy students from 13 regions throughout BC and the Yukon presented their projects in Fredericton, New Brunswick this week at the 58th Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF). At yesterday&#8217;s Awards Ceremony, BC and Yukon students received 140 awards and scholarships valued at $194,550 including 6 gold medals, 14 silver medals and 21 bronze medals! Among the silver medal winners was our own <strong>Fraser Valley team, Sarah Choi and Neelah Hassanzadeh<\/strong>. They won for their project &#8220;BSFL Frass: Improving Plant Health While Minimizing Environmental Impact&#8221;. They were presented with their medal by Fredericton&#8217;s Mayor, Michael O&#8217;Brien.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2236-e1558114808144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8634 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2236-e1558114808144-945x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2236-e1558114808144-945x1024.jpg 945w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2236-e1558114808144-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_2236-e1558114808144-768x832.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are so very proud of <strong>Sarah, Neelah, Caio<\/strong> and <strong>Andrew<\/strong> for representing our region. They will be taking home memories to last them a lifetime!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Sarah-Neelah.web_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8639\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Sarah-Neelah.web_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Sarah-Neelah.web_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Sarah-Neelah.web_.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Andrew.web_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8637\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Andrew.web_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Andrew.web_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Andrew.web_.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Caio.web_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8638\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Caio.web_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Caio.web_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/05\/Caio.web_.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A huge thank you to our delegates <strong>Jasneet Brar<\/strong>, from R.E. Mountain Secondary School and <strong>Sonja Armstrong<\/strong> for keeping us in the loop on the west coast with your wonderful photographs!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, none of this would be possible without the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/science-fair\/sponsors\/2019-sponsors--supporters\/\">generous support of our sponsors<\/a>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To learn more about the <strong>Fraser Valley Regional Science Fair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/science-fair\/\">please visit our website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/FVRSF_LOGO_CMYK_Fair_DATE_FB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8367\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/02\/FVRSF_LOGO_CMYK_Fair_DATE_FB-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cwsf.youthscience.ca\/welcome-cwsf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/804045498973900800\/_bWEEAO0.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefairs.ca\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bctechnology.com\/tmp\/news\/D41D8CD98F00B204E9800998ECF8427EF9E854C2D54C93E81C30DA55898CD7A9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy students from 13 regions throughout BC and the Yukon presented their projects in Fredericton, New Brunswick this week at the 58th Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF). At yesterday&#8217;s Awards Ceremony, BC and Yukon students received 140 awards and scholarships valued at $194,550 including 6 gold medals, 14 silver medals and 21 bronze medals! Among the &#8230; <a title=\"Team Fraser Valley shines at the Canada Wide Science Fair! Sarah and Neelah are bringing home the Silver!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/05\/17\/team-fraser-valley-shines-at-the-canada-wide-science-fair-sarah-and-neelah-are-bringing-home-the-silver\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":8649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,307],"tags":[286,102,370],"class_list":["post-8633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-science-fair","tag-cwsf","tag-fvrsf","tag-team-fvrsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8633"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8655,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8633\/revisions\/8655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}