Friday- Grand Awards!!!!

The blogsite was down last night, so apologies that you're seeing both sets of awards at the same time. It also appears as if two blog posts (Monday night and Tuesday) have disappeared. I'm hoping they come back, otherwise I'll re-write them.

So we wake up early on Friday, and have breakfast at the hotel for the last time.

We ask the kids to bring their boxes, bags, tubes and luggage and we'll head off to pack up projects right after the awards ceremony.

As always, the awards and closing ceremony is incredible. A video with highlights of the week brings lots of cheers as people recognize themselves, their neighbours, or just re-live all the great memories of the week.

So ... the moment you've all been waiting for!

11 Merit Awards for Canada!!

4th place of $500

Sabrina (YSC) in Biochemistry

Megan (Montreal) in Medicine and Health Sciences

Grace (YSC) in Medicine and Health Sciences

Janelle & Vivienne Tam (YSC) in Engineering

3rd place of $1000

Adelina (YSC) in Behavioural/Social Sciences

Reda & Alexandre (YSC) in Medical and Health Sciences

2nd place of $1500 + an asteroid named after them

Howard (YSC) in Cellular and Molecular Biology

Chloe (Montreal) in Environmental Science

Rui (YSC) in Plant Sciences

Dheevesh (YSC) in Energy and Transportation

1st place of $3,000 + an asteroid named after them

Chris (YSC) in Engineering

In the five years that I've been here, this is a record number of Awards for our Canadian students .. 9 specials, and 11 merits, for a total of 20 Awards.

Congratulations to all these students who were specially honoured today, and also to all of our finalists. They have done such an amazing job representing our country. We couldn't be prouder of the team we had here this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!