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Yorkies at the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair

This past weekend the following students participated in the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair at UBC. There were only four YHS students but WOW they did amazingly well, with two projects moving on the the national level and one to the international level. As few other awards were won as well. Here are the results:

Nicole, Gr. 10
Nicole, Gr. 10

Nicole, Gr. 10
Title: Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification System for Point-of-Care HIV Diagnosis

  • Intermediate Divisional Gold
  • INTEL (International Science Fair – only open to past national level winners!)
Joy and Kendra, Gr. 10
Joy and Kendra, Gr. 10

 

Joy and Kendra, Gr. 10
Title: Targeting Glycolysis in Prostate Cancer Using Antisense Oligonucleotides against Monocarboxylate Transporter 4

  • Intermediate Divisional Gold
  • Genome British Columbia Award Winner
  • CWSF (national level fair)
Marissa, Gr. 11
Marissa, Gr. 11

 

Marissa, Gr. 11
Title: Prevalence and Consequences of GNA13 Mutations in Primary Mediastinal Large B-Cell Lymphoma

  • Senior Divisional Gold
  • UBC Science Entrance Award Health Sciences
  • CWSF (national level fair)
  • UBC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Winner
Winners selected for the Canada Wide Science Fair
Winners selected for the Canada Wide Science Fair
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Choirs Receive Kudos (and a win!) at Kiwanis Festival

Gr. 7 Choir performs for grandparents
Our Award-Winning Grade 7 Choir Performing at Grandparents Day

Our Chorista Concert Choir and Grade 7 Choir performed at Kiwanis Festival a couple of week ago. This was a three day event with 53 choirs in attendance.

In Chorista’s category, there was a big field of strong choirs. Congratulations go to the Saint Thomas More Catholic Grade 10 Choir – an amazing group! Though they didn’t take the top prize, here is a little of what the judges had to say about our girls:

  • Ladies, you are awesome. Continue to sing forever!
  • You sound extremely mature.
  • A very fine, fine choir.
  • Keep up the great work!
  • Wonderful to see/hear such obvious energy and work and passion in the choir

Our Grade 7 Choir won their category. They were named the best Elementary School Choir! The choir will be submitting their recording and keeping their fingers crossed. If they win at provincials, they will go on to represent BC as the top Elementary Choir at the National Festival of Music (again, by recording).

Here are some comments on our Grade 7 Choir (the entire Grade 7 class):

  • Wow! Love, love, love your tone. So free – great job!
  • Soloists – you have stolen my heart ! (Pepi, Elanore, Kathryn)
  • Wonderful singing today, girls – very impressed with this confident and engaging performance! Excited to hear how you’ll continue to grow.
  • LOVE YOU !!!! (yes, four exclamation marks!)

A big congratulations to the girls and a big THANK YOU to Mr. Bach, Ms. Haylett, Ms. Pearce, and Ms. Blackburn for all of their work shaping this amazing music program. Please come to the Music Department’s Final Performances on May 27th and 28th, to hear our girls in all their glory!