Two Northern Teens Score Big in Taiwan Science Fair

By 250 News

Brian Le, a Grade 12 student from Kelly Road Secondary School in Prince George and Kimmie Gulevich, a Grade 10 student from Dr. Kearney Junior Secondary School in Fort St. John,  have returned big winners from the Taiwan International Science Fair, held February 16th to 23rd in Taipei, Taiwan.

Le's work entitled 'Blood Brain Barrier Breached' was awarded third place in the Medicine and Health Science category. His project investigated whether SVCT2 is an effective and safe protein to attach to certain brain tumour treatments and bypass the Blood Brain Barrier.

Gulevich's work entitled 'Biodiesel: Does it Make Cents?' was awarded third place in the Environmental Science category. Her project studied the practicality of biodiesel by researching the argument of food versus fuel, comparing the energy efficiencies of biodiesel, and petroleum diesel and studying the effect of temperature on biodiesel.

The students were selected to participate based on their science fair project work, their effective communication skills and their ambassadorial qualities.

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