Northern Manitoba
2011 Northern Manitoba: Student Finds Speed Treatment For Faster Growing Veggies
Growing vegetables in Northern Manitoba has always been a challenge for Emily Klekta’s family, who operate a commercial market garden. To help her family, the 16-year-old Swan River student has found a way to get seeds to germinate faster, even in the cold soils of her region. “We grow and sell vegetables every summer,” says [...]
SABC 2011 Northern Manitoba
Heading into the big push to get projects done, the Northern SABC program has 10 projects, the highest number ever. This growth came about from students, teachers and administrators from Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute in The Pas, Manitoba, supporting the program. The continued support of University College of the North for the teams from MBCI [...]
SABC Northern Manitoba 2010
The Northern Manitoba SABC program is in its third year as a pilot to determine how schools, teachers and students living away from large urban centres, where possible mentors for SABC are more common, can benefit from one of Canada’s most prestigious science programs for high school students. With Swan Valley Regional Secondary School student, [...]
Oil from invasive “weed” shows promise as viable transformer lubricant
The camelina plant has seemed to many North Americas nothing more than an invasive weed. Taylor Henkelman, of Swan River, Manitoba, however, sees a valuable resource. Camelina is drought resistant, doesn’t mind the cold, needs virtually no pesticides to thrive, crowds out weeds and could have a variety of uses as an edible oil with [...]
Our 2010 Northern Manitoba Projects
Swan Valley Regional Secondary School (Swan River, Manitoba), 6 Projects, 7 students, Teacher Advisor: Paula Norman Aaron Sagert , “Biodiesel in Oil Crops Using Camelina Seeds,” Mentor Dr. Jim Daun, Agrianalytical Joel Hart and Dexter Bird, “Usage of Biofilms,” Mentor: Dawson Reimer, Medicue Inc. Breanna Anderson, “Is Natural vs Processed Really Better: A Comparison of [...]
Northern Manitoba 2009 Competition
Swan Valley Regional Secondary School student, Kirsten Larson, receiving the 2009 national prize for the project with the most promising commercial application In its second year, the Northern Manitoba Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge 2008/2009 is coordinated by MindSet, the Manitoba Network for Science and Technology, a program of Manitoba Science, Technology, Energy and Mines, as a [...]
2009 National Finalist Northern Manitoba
Investigating the benefits of the haskap berry Could a little-known Japanese fruit be the next big thing in nutraceuticals? Eighteen-year-old Kirsten Larson has thought so ever since her family planted an acre of haskap berry bushes on their llama farm new Swan River, Manitoba, four years ago. Now, thanks to her research project for this [...]
2009 Winning Students from Northern Manitoba
Winning students and supervising teachers Frontier Collegiate in Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, and Swan Valley Regional Secondary School in Swan River, Manitoba, commemorate the first years competition in of the Northern SABC program after the awards luncheon in The Pas, Manitoba. In its second year, the Northern Manitoba Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge 2008/2009 is coordinated by MindSet, [...]