SCIENCE FAIR RESULTS 2010

25 Korah students participated in the annual Regional Rotary Science Fair on the weekend. Once again, Korah students have done very well. Most of our students received ribbons in their categories and divisions allowing Korah to claim the best intermediate level school and best senior level school trophies. In addition, the following major prizes were won by our students:

Gabe Wetzel won a $1000 University of Ottawa Entrance Scholarship for best senior project, $500 tuition scholarship to Algoma, Honorable Mention for the Fair, and Most Innovative Senior Project

Julean Albidone and Peter Nearing won the Professional Institute of Public Servants Award and the Alfred R. Askin Shield.

Piyush Shukla won the Professional Engineers Award for the best project improving every day living. Maija Irvine and Kassandra Yun share the MDS laboratory award for the best laboratory projects. Kassandra also wins a $500 Algoma University Scholarship.

Karl Zimmermann won the Enviro Expo special award. Karl also won the Rotary Club of Sault Ste Marie award of excellence and placed first in the science fair. Karl will travel to the national science fair in May.Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners.

Judges Award

Robotics Group 2009-2010

Although the Algoma District School Board’s Knights of Alloy robotics team did not qualify for the World Championships this year, the team did have an entry into one of the World FIRST final judges’ awards. In March, while attending the Waterloo Regional, the team’s own Ian Graham (robot programmer and website manager) was selected as a "dean’s list” finalist. This award recognized Ian’s substantial contribution to team leadership and mentoring newer team
members, as well as his efforts as a mentor for one of our local elementary school FLL (Lego) robotics teams. As a recipient at the regional level, his award was forwarded, along with the other 89 finalists from the 45 regionals, to the final award judging stage at the World Robotics event in Atlanta. The Knights of Alloy have just learned that when the final judge’s awards were read out in Atlanta on Saturday, Ian’s name was among the 10 winners that they selected.
It’s a high honour considering that of the approximately 2,000 entries received for this award at the regional level. Ian was selected to the final roster of 90 names and then came out as one of the 10 recipients. The team would like to congratulate Ian Graham for this distinctive honour and wishes him the best of luck as he embarks on his post-secondary pursuits once he graduates from Korah Collegiate and leaves the team at the end of this season.

Earth Hour Photo Assignment

Korah turned out the lights for one hour in April for Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.

Student of the month for March

Alisha Roden - English
Corey Bakker - Tech
Samantha Stewart - History
Chelsea Pace - Science