Grade 7 & 8 Turnbull students take home 29 awards at Regional and a Silver medal at Canada Wide Science Fair. An unfortunate ski accident did not stop one of our students from competing and receiving an Honorary Mention at Canada Wide.

In addition various organizations presented the following nine special awards to our students:
Nick Johnson: ASM International for a project using materials, innovation and creativity; Heritage Presentation and Public Education Branch of Parks Canada for an experiment related to ecological integrity; Professional Engineers Ontario for innovative and interesting application of scientific knowledge and engineering principles in solving an engineering problem; Canadian Society for Civil Engineering for his civil engineering content.
Michelle Kovesi: Partners in Research and the Friends of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for best science project relevant to medicine; University of Ottawa Physics Department for exploring phenomena involving physical laws or applying physical principles
Katie Montague: Professional Engineers Ontario for innovative and interesting application of scientific knowledge and engineering principles in solving an engineering problem.
Molly Teitelbaum: Canadian Society for Civil Engineering for her civil engineering content.
Alexandra Tighe: Ontario Institute of Agrologists for the best science project depicting agriculture.

It was also very pleasing to see some of our former students winning awards and, in particular, one of our graduates from last year, Andrew Tannahill, who won Silver at the high school level for Engineering and Computing Science and four special awards.

HIGH HONOURS AT CANADA WIDE SCIENCE FAIR - May 25, 2004
At the Ottawa Regional Science Fair in April, out of the 135 participants, four top students from Grades 7 and 8 were selected for the Canada Wide Science Fair, and three were Turnbull School students. Those students flew to St. John's this month to participate in an enriching week of presentations and judging.   

At the awards ceremony, out of the 483 students from every province and territory across Canada, Grade 7 Turnbull School student, Matthew Osmond, won a silver medal in his Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences ($700 prize).  He also won a special award, the Canadian Association of Physicists prize ($250).  In addition he won a $1000 entrance scholarship to the University of Western Ontario.  Another student from Grade 8, Adam LaRoche, received an honorable mention.  In the words of one of the judges, "The students from Turnbull showed an enthusiasm and maturity that you should be very proud of."

WRITING AWARD
Saturday, April 9th, 2005 was a wonderful day to celebrate students' achievements at two school supported events, the National Staples Writing Contest and the Regional Science Fair (see above).

Eleanor Miller, grade 6 Turnbull student, was the local winner of the national writing award sponsored by Staples Business Depot. Out of 15,000 entries, her story was judged and chosen as one of 204 across the country that was published in a book, entitled "I've Always Wondered...". She received her prize, read her story and signed books at the Bank Street Staples store.