Youth Science Achievement Week on iChannel

March 19, 2006

iChannel's critically-acclaimed series @issue presents a special four-part series on youth science achievement from March 27-31 at 8pm and 11pm ET. During the four one-hour shows, host Arlene Bynon discusses youth science and the importance of engaging young Canadians in science and engineering with CWSF medal winners, research scientists and industry representatives.

Each show focuses on a different area of science and features top award winners from CWSF 2005:

Monday, March 27 - Earth & Environment
Jordan Bowman (Intermediate gold medal), Connor Emdin (Junior gold medal)
Reni Barlow (YSF Canada), Dr. Peter Berg (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)

Tuesday, March 28 - Health Sciences
Natalie Raso (Intermediate gold medal & Best-in-Fair), Andrea Weckman (Junior silver medal)
Dr. Nicole Power-Billard, Dr. Alison Symington (Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology)

Wednesday, March 29 - Engineering & Computing
Katherine Brown (Junior gold & silver medal), Barbara Ratnam (Junior gold medal)
Doug Cooper (Intel of Canada), Sukh Singh (GE Canada)

Thursday, March 30 - Biotechnology & Life Sciences
Aaron Hakim (Junior gold medal), Miaad Aliroteh & Niresan Seevaratnam (Intermediate gold medal)
Gabriel Ayyavoo (Toronto Sci-Tech Fairs)

Click the link to download a preview video (.wmv)

For additional program and schedule details visit the iChannel web site.