Press Release
Fort Frances High School student Angie Redford has returned home from the Canada-Wide Science Fair with her second-straight bronze medal-this time with partner Anna Schwartz (home-schooled).
The pair captured first place in the Sunset Country Regional Science Fair back in April with their project, “A ‘Major’ Experiment with ‘Minor’ Results,” which then saw them join with 500 of Canada’s brightest young scientists in Regina for the 56th edition of the Canada-Wide Science Fair last week.
Also representing Sunset Country were finalists Kolton Gagne (Ear Falls Public School) and Sabrina Blais (Golden Learning Centre).
The event, which took place at the University of Regina campus, featured 400 projects selected from 25,000 regional science fair participants from across the country.
It also drew roughly 6,000 visitors to Regina area–making it Canada’s largest youth science competition.
Redford, a Grade 9 student, and her partner competed at the senior level with Grade 11 and Grade 12 projects as they explored physiological responses to the chord quality (major or minor) of music in two mediums (live and pre-recorded).
The pair tested whether changing these variables affected blood glucose, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate.
They discovered that listening to live music lowered (or improved) both blood glucose and systolic blood pressure while listening to recorded music increased these variables.
They also found these variables experienced a greater change in people living with diabetes.
The team was honoured to earn one of 40 Excellence Award (Senior) bronze medals for their efforts.
“We’re very proud of Angie and Anna’s achievement at the Canada-Wide Science Fair, along with Sabrina and Kolton from the Keewatin-Patricia School Board,” said Brad Gushulak, STEM co-ordinator for the Rainy River District School Board.
“They all put a lot of time and hard work into their investigations, and did an excellent job representing Sunset Country,” he noted.
