Three young scientists from Lambton County earned national recognition at the 2025 Canada-Wide Science Fair, held May 31 to June 6 at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
The students qualified after presenting their work at the Lambton County Science Fair, held April 4–5 at Lambton College, where 52 projects were showcased by nearly 80 student participants.
Mustafa Arif, a Grade 9 student at Northern Collegiate, received a silver medal at the national fair for his project Novel Multimodal AI Architectures for Motor Intent Decoding in Assistive BCIs. Cyndi Rayson, a Grade 9 student at St. Patrick’s Catholic High School, earned bronze for The Cost of Color: An Innovative Analysis of Azo Dye Reduction and Combination Effect. Ben Harper, a Grade 8 student at St. Philip Catholic School, also received bronze for A Wavy Problem – Navigating the Surges of Climate Change.
The national fair involved 339 student participants from across Canada and featured two days of judging, public exhibitions, lab experiences, and tours.
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