Oh Canada!!! Friday - Grand Awards Day

We start the morning with the "team meeting" in the location we've claimed for ourselves on the second floor at the top of the staircase to the lobby. There's a little alcove there that we met in one night, and it's become the meeting place of choice throughout the week. Even the one day when we had forgotten to tell the students where the meeting was, they all managed to show up in the same place!

They are all dressed so nicely for the Awards ceremony, so we head outside to take the official team pictures for the year. Then it's time for breakfast.

I think that we've somehow voted "Flames" the official Canadian IISEF team restaurant, as we were back there for breakfast again this morning. The food is great (and quick!), the staff efficient and friendly, and they don't bat an eyelash when we walk in with 26 of us! This is the third meal this week that we've "officially" eaten there ... some of the kids tell us they've been back a couple of times in smaller groups ..

Stuffed full of food, we head over to the Awards ceremony.
Intel and Society for Science put on a fabulous show indeed.
A large multi media presentation, along with music the kids love, highlight everything that's been special about the week.

Then it's time for the Awards:

4th Place ($500 prize) to:
Vivian Leung in Cellular & Molecular Biology
Chris Nielson in Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
Emma Graham in Environmental Mgmt.

3rd Place ($1,000 prize) to:
Claire Edgcumbe in Cellular & Molecular Biology
Gary Burek in Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
Mary Zhao in Environmental Mgmt
Jonathan Zhou in Mathematics
Vivienne & Janelle Tam - Team Category

2nd Place ($1500 prize + an asteroid named after them) to:
Adelina Cozma in Behavioural Sciences
Dheevesh Arulmani in Energy & Transportation

Vivian is from Bay Area Science & Engineering Fair,
Gary is from the Alberta Science Fair Foundation,
the rest of the students were chosen for the Team by Youth Science Canada.

We're back at the hotel now to tear down the projects, then we're headed out for lunch, and, in typical Canadian fashion, some fabulous fun activity yet to be identified. Good thing all the chaperones can go with the flow!

Stef has uploaded new pictures from this week .....
The link again is ...
http://picasaweb.google.com/ysf.teamcanada