2026 Fair

                    

                        

                        

                 

                           

                         

                       

                

           

The 2026 Regional Fair Awards

Challenge Awards

 

Digital and Technology Challenge Award -Abigail Thomas and Eastyn Leguyer (Gordon F. Kells, Carlyle)

Environmental and Climate Change Challenge Award – Emilee Frischholz (Gladmar)

Energy Challenge Award – Samuel Thompson (Gladmar)

Health and Wellness Challenge Award – Cadence Harper (Oxbow Prairie Horizons School)

Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Challenge Awards – Joran Frey (Oxbow Prairie Horizons School)

Curiosity and Ingenuity Challenge Award – Brynn Champman and Juillian Tabosuares (Gordon F. Kells, Carlyle)

Disease and Illness Challenge Award – Alexis Fuller (Oxbow Prairie Horizons School)

Excellence Awards (Medal Winners)

Primary (Grades 5 and 6)

Primary Bronze Medal – Presley Woitas (Gladmar) “How do lights affect plant growth?”

Primary Bronze Medal – Isabelle Hogg and Jaina Sangster (Stoughton) “What liquid will grow tomato plants the best?”

Primary Silver Medal – Noah Jacobson (Gladmar) “Vegan vs Carnivore”

Primary Gold Medal – Sierra MacDonald (Gladmar) “Best Insulator Material”

Junior (Grades 7 and 8)

Junior Bronze Medal – Ailyah Faber and Hadlie Grodecki (Gordon F. Kells, Carlyle) “Heat Protectant”

Junior Bronze Medal – Abigail Thomas and Eastyn Leguyer (Gordon F. Kells, Carlyle) “Study of AI”

Junior Silver Medal – Ryan Cooper (Gordon F. Kells, Carlyle) “Propellor Lift”

Junior Gold Medal – Mesa MacDonald (Gladmar) “Store Bought Fruit Seeds Germinate?”

Intermediate (Grades 9 and 10)

Intermediate Bronze Medal – Cadence Harper (Oxbow Prairie Horizons School) Effects of luminescence with Contrast”

Intermediate Silver Medal – Samuel Thompson (Gladmar) “Energy Crisis Solution?”

Intermediate Silver Medal – Emilee Frischholz (Gladmar) “Too Salty to Sustain”

Senior (Grades 11 and 12)

Senior Bronze Medals – (r to l) Layla Kitz (OPHS) “Beneath the Image”; Peyton Irwin (OPHS) “The Chaos Theory: The Butterfly Effect”; Alexis Fuller (OPHS) “The World Market of Non-Living and Living Vaccines”

Senior Silver Medals: (r to l) Samantha Sifton and Haylee Dercach (OPHS) “Arrays of Light and Colour”; Dara Bunch and Alyza Rabanal (OPHS) “Creatine’s Effect on Teens”

Senior Gold Medal – Sarah Brown and Lexah Cowan (Carnduff Education Complex) “Gravity vs Growth

Top Projects Overall

These two top projects advance onto the Canada Wide Science Fair in Edmonton, AB May 23 to May 30.

Second Place Project Overall – Mesa MacDonald (Galdmar) “Store Bought Fruit Seeds Germinate?”

Mesa MacDonald (Gladmar) is going to the Canada Wide Science Fair!!!

Top Project Overall – Emilee Frischholz (Gladmar) “Too Salty to Sustain”

Emilee Frischholz is going to the Canada Wide Science Fair!!!

Mini-STEM Career Fair