{"id":9423,"date":"2019-10-23T22:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2019-10-23T22:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T22:36:22","slug":"whats-next-for-our-rockstar-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/10\/23\/whats-next-for-our-rockstar-team\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s next for our rockstar team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team of <strong>Sarah Choi<\/strong> and <strong>Neelah Hassanzadeh<\/strong> continue to shine! After returning from the <a href=\"https:\/\/cwsf.youthscience.ca\/welcome-cwsf\">Canada Wide Science Fair<\/a> in May, the <strong>NSERC Young Innovators<\/strong> were presented with the Association of Professional Biology Award for 2019. This award is presented to the British Columbia student(s) who achieve the highest standing at the Canada-Wide Science Fair with a project of a biological nature. They won for their project BSFL Frass: Improving Plant Health While Minimizing Environmental Impact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Sarah.Choi_.MILSET2019.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9426 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Sarah.Choi_.MILSET2019.2-e1571868992265-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Sarah.Choi_.MILSET2019.2-e1571868992265-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Sarah.Choi_.MILSET2019.2-e1571868992265-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Sarah.Choi_.MILSET2019.2-e1571868992265-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Sarah&#8217;s adventure didn&#8217;t stop there. She had the opportunity to join 44 other Canada Wide Science Fair finalists from across the country and attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esi2019.ae\/en\/pages\/home.aspx\">MILSET Expo-Sciences International<\/a> (ESI) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in September. This international event brought together students from nearly 60 countries to showcase the creativity of young scientists from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? Sarah and Neelah are in their final year at R.E. Mountain Secondary School in Langley. We wish them all the best and look forward to seeing them compete again at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/science-fair\/\"><strong>Fraser Valley Regional Science Fair<\/strong> <\/a>in April 2020!<\/p>\n<p>For more information on our Science Fair and how you can get involved, please visit our website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/science-fair\/\">www.ufv.ca\/science-fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9425\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Team-Canada-MILSET-2019.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9425 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Team-Canada-MILSET-2019.2-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Team-Canada-MILSET-2019.2-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Team-Canada-MILSET-2019.2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Team-Canada-MILSET-2019.2-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/Team-Canada-MILSET-2019.2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Youth Science Canada. CWSF Finalists attend MILSET ~ Sept 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/FVRSF_LOGO_CMYK_Fair_Blank.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9435 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/FVRSF_LOGO_CMYK_Fair_Blank-271x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/FVRSF_LOGO_CMYK_Fair_Blank-271x300.png 271w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/FVRSF_LOGO_CMYK_Fair_Blank-768x852.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/FVRSF_LOGO_CMYK_Fair_Blank-923x1024.png 923w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2019\/10\/FVRSF_LOGO_CMYK_Fair_Blank.png 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/science-fair\">www.ufv.ca\/science-fair<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:fvrsf@ufv.ca\">fvrsf@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team of Sarah Choi and Neelah Hassanzadeh continue to shine! After returning from the Canada Wide Science Fair in May, the NSERC Young Innovators were presented with the Association of Professional Biology Award for 2019. This award is presented to the British Columbia student(s) who achieve the highest standing at the Canada-Wide Science Fair &#8230; <a title=\"What&#8217;s next for our rockstar team?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/10\/23\/whats-next-for-our-rockstar-team\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[102,38],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-fair","tag-fvrsf","tag-student-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9436,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/9436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}