Three Surrey teens have won big in the largest Canadian youth STEM competition.
With one student from Frank Hurt Secondary and two from SAIL (Surrey Academy of Innovative Learning), Surrey school district is celebrating its students' showing at the Canada-Wide Science Fair.
This year, the annual fair saw Sreya Kurup from Frank Hurt and Chase Wang and Omar Imrani from SAIL travel to Fredericton, New Brunswick to compete among 390 students from Grades 7 to 12 across the country, according to a press release.
The Science Fair is the largest STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) competition for youth in the country.
Kurup took home the senior excellence award silver for her project in the disease and illness category. Additionally, the Grade 11 student was offered a $2,000 entrance scholarship from Western University, $2,500 entrance scholarship from University of New Brunswick, $2,000 entrance scholarship from University of Ottawa, $2,500 entrance scholarship from Dalhousie University and a $4,000 entrance scholarship from Mount Allison University.
Meanwhile, Imrani received the bronze intermediate excellence award for an app that is intended to improve emergency services response times. The Grade 10 student was also offered a $1,000 entrance scholarship from Western University and a $3,000 entrance scholarship from Mount Allison University.
And finally, Grade 8 student Wang achieved a bronze junior excellence award and a $1,000 entrance scholarship from Western University. The SAIL student designed an AI-based food tracker to manage groceries and reduce food waste by providing recipes based on food the user has at home.
