Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., students to compete in national science fair | 24CA News

Extracting strawberry DNA, analyzing sleep deprivation and explaining hydrophobic pepper — these are the science initiatives from three college students representing the Sahtu area of the Northwest Territories at a nationwide science truthful. 

Koda Amos, Regan Grandjambe and Tori Lafferty from Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., can be travelling to Edmonton from May 13 to 20 to compete on the Youth Science Canada exhibition. 

When Amos, a Grade 10 scholar at Chief T’Selehye School, discovered he could be competing towards different college students from throughout the nation, he stated he felt just a little nervous.

“I’ve just never been selected to go. It’s new,” he stated. 

Amos’ venture appears to be like at sleep deprivation and the way it impacts our capacity to work and examine. He stated he interviewed a gaggle of his friends about how a lot sleep they get after which requested 10 skill-testing questions.

He stated the outcomes have been largely as he hypothesized and people with extra sleep had higher success with the questions. 

Asked how he got here up with the venture, Amos stated he “was sleepy and curious about the sleep we get.”

Grade 11 scholar Regan Grandjambe’s venture is about how one can take DNA from a strawberry.

Since studying extra in regards to the upcoming exhibition in Edmonton, Grandjambe stated that she’s wanting ahead to sharing her venture, and likewise studying from workshops on the truthful. 

Through the week, college students can have the chance to take part in workshops on matters starting from zoology and photo voltaic statement to sustainable know-how and nursing. 

Grandjambe stated she is very enthusiastic about one workshop delving into coronary heart anatomy.   

Amos, Grandjambe and Lafferty will be a part of practically 400 college students from throughout the nation on the occasion, together with different N.W.T. college students from the Beaufort Delta and South Slave areas. 

Darren Hataley is a program help trainer at Chief T’Selehye School.

Between presenting their initiatives, the workshops, assembly different college students and even a scholar expertise present, he stated the journey has no scarcity of studying alternatives.

“I hope it inspires them,” Hataley stated. 

Reni Barlow, govt director of Youth Science Canada, stated the truthful is all about getting college students to ask questions and take into consideration fixing points of their communities. 

“Whether it’s in a remote community or the heart of an urban centre it doesn’t really matter, kids have great ideas and they’re very observant and come up with some really interesting solutions to problems,” Barlow stated.

He stated that roughly half the scholars will go residence with a medal and an accompanying scholarship to certainly one of seven Canadian universities. On prime of that, there are 25 particular award classes the place recipients are chosen to win a money prize. 

For certainly one of them, the Sanofi Biogenius Canada award which celebrates analysis on well being and life sciences, Grandjambe is within the working.   

Barlowe stated the truthful additionally encourages college students to combine Indigenous conventional data into their initiatives. 

For instance, up to now they’ve had initiatives on issues like qamutiiks (conventional sleds) and the way greatest to make them slide, and on medicines, he stated.   

Hataley stated that is the primary 12 months the Chief T’Selehye college has participated with its personal native science truthful and the plan is to maintain it going as an annual occasion. Next 12 months, he stated, it will likely be greater and higher.