Halifax Sci-Tech Expo

On March 31, 2023 six students from Halifax Regional Municipality were selected at Halifax Sci-Tech Expo (HSTE) to attend the Canada-Wide Science Fair, 2023  (CWSF) in Edmonton.

These six students were chosen from approximately 70 students who attended HSTE.

The students, with their chaperones, attended CWSF from May 13 to 20, along with close to 400 other youth from across Canada. They participated in social events allowing them to meet other participants, judging days, and public viewing of projects as well they were able to visit the STEM Expo on site, the TELUS World of Science!, West Edmonton Mall and spent a full day at University of Alberta.

On the evening of May 18, the participants attended the formal Awards Ceremony at the Edmonton Conference Center where several of them received medals and other awards (details below).

As the students wrap up their last day at CWSF, the will pack up and prepare for their return home with mixed feelings of leaving new friends and contacts, but also thinking forward to possible project ideas for HSTE 2024!

The Halifax Sci-Tech Expo Association is a volunteer organization.  The purpose of the Association is to organize and administer the Regional Science Fair (Halifax Sci-Tech Expo – HSTE) for students from public and independent schools within HRM in grades 7-12.

Students usually compete in school-based science fairs where they are selected to attend the Regional Science Fair (HSTE).  At the regional level they are judged in grade-level categories (7/8 Junior; 9/10 Intermediate; 11/12 Senior) and compete for various cash prizes and scholarships as well as the opportunity to attend the annual Canada-Wide Science Fair.

Halifax Sci-Tech Expo 2024 will be held at Saint Mary’s University on April 5, 2024.

Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023 Participation and Results

• Wafaa Amin & Asia Urquhart – Gorsebrook Junior High – A Novel Study of Physiological and Social Relation with Low-Valence Emotions: Pediatric PCEST Care – Intermediate – Excellence Award Bronze Medal, $1,500 Entrance Scholarship to University of Alberta, $1,000 Entrance Scholarship to Western University
• Chloe Dafoe – Halifax Independent School – Mercury Contamination around the Bedford Basin? – Intermediate
• Mateo Mathenge – Gorsebrook Junior High – Green Energy: The answer is blowing in the wind – Intermediate – Excellence Award Gold Medal, $1,500 Entrance Scholarship to University of Alberta, $4,000 Entrance Scholarship to Western University
• Harry Nickerson – Halifax Independent School – Do You Really See What Eye See? – Junior – Excellence Award Gold Medal, $1,500 Entrance Scholarship to University of Alberta, $4,000 Entrance Scholarship to Western University
• Bram St. Peters – Gorsebrook Junior High (participating independently) – Could moon colonists add human biosolids or sand to lunar soil to increase food production on the moon? – Intermediate – Excellence Award Gold Medal, Challenge Award – Curiosity and Ingenuity, $1,500 Entrance Scholarship to University of Alberta, $4,000 Entrance Scholarship to Western University