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NFL Sponsors an award at Canada Wide Science Fair

Over the last 3 years, NFL has sponsored a special award at the Canada Wide Science Fair for an outstanding project that is related to soil science, plants and fertilizer. In 2019 NFL will be participating once again at the CWSF which is being held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Campus from May 11th to May 17th. This year’s award will be for an intermediate project.

2016- McGill University, Montreal, QC
Junior Winner- Rémie Cherepak- Would you eat These Peas?
More information about her project here


Picture from Youth Science Canada

2017- University of Saskatchewan, Regina, SK
Intermediate Winners: Kamron Zaidi and Austin Wu, A Comparative Analysis of Hydroponics, Aeroponics, and Fogponics on Plant Growth
More information about their project here
https://secure.youthscience.ca/virtualcwsf/projectdetails.php?id=5146&year=2017&province=&keyword=&name=&categoryid=2&divisionid=&challengeid=&regionid=


The winners with Regional Manager, Ray Cochrane

2018- Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
Senior Winners- Kamron and Sabrina Zaidi- The Effect of Surface Tension on Plant Growth in Fogponics
More information about their project here
https://secure.youthscience.ca/virtualcwsf/projectdetails.php?id=5615&year=2018&province=&keyword=&name=&categoryid=3&divisionid=&challengeid=&regionid=


Winners with Executive Director Tamara Sealy