Special Awards
Acquired Brain Injury Awards
Prize: 1st: $75, 2nd: $25
Criteria: Two projects relating to the brain, especially acquired brain injuries, their causes or therapies.
Artistically Inspired Display Award
Prize: Two awards of $50 each
Criteria: For the most artistically inspired display.
Bell Technology Award
Prize: 1st: $150; 2nd: $100.
Criteria: Projects regarding communication between people, between machines, or between people and machines; any level.
Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (Hamilton Branch) Award
Prize: 1st: $100, 2nd:$100.
Criteria: Cash and certificate awards for outstanding projects relating to Mining and Metallurgy and petroleum regardless of level
Canadian Nuclear Society (Sheridan Park Branch) Awards
Prize:Four awards in total, two at the intermediate or senior levels for $125 each, two at the junior level for $75 each.
Criteria: For projects relating to nuclear science and engineering, energy research or climate sciences
Cancer Assistance Programme Awards
Prize: Two cash prizes: 1st $100, 2nd $100
Criteria: For outstanding projects on topics related to cancer prevention.
Chemical Institute of Canada, Hamilton Section Awards
Prize: Three cash awards of $100 each.
Criteria: For deserving projects relating to chemistry, chemical engineering and chemical technology.
Conservation Halton Environmental Sciences
Prize: $100 each to two projects.
Criteria: Best and Second best Environmental Projects that contribute to environmental research, protection, conservation, restoration or awareness done by Halton students.
Hamilton Association da Vinci Award
Prize: $300, and an honourary membership in the Association and an invitation to attend meetings. Criteria: The best candidate who combines personal initiative with the scientific method.
Dr. Colin J.L. Lock Memorial Chemistry Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: The project demonstrating the best application of chemistry.
Dr. M. Doyle Award
Prize: Total value of $250 prize includes: a cash award, a plaque, and a trophy kept at the winner's school for a year.
Criteria: For the best biology project
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Awards
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of commercial and business planning tools in developing a potentially new or improved commercial product.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Environment Award
Prize: $100
Criteria:Project that best displays the use of physics, chemistry or engineering to explore or solve a technical problem associated with environmental issues.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Hot Mill Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of creative principles and design to solve a manufacturing or process problem.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Medical Department Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of scientific principles in exploring or solving a problem related to human health issues.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Product Research & Automotive Applications Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project that best displays the innovative application of materials, products, processes or design principles.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Product Development Business Process Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of Product Development principles and design in developing a new consumer product with commercial potential.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Research and Development Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project that displays the best use of investigative research and scientific principles to explore or solve a technical problem.
ArcelorMittalDofasco Steelmaking Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of Engineering and Materials Science principles to solve a technical problem.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Engineering and Maintenance Technology Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project best displaying the use of Engineering and Maintenance Technology principles and design to solve a technical problem.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Information Systems Department Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Project best displaying the use of Information Systems principles and design to solve a technical problem.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Human Resources Training and Development Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Deserving project that best displays the use of teaching and training techniques in explaining or exploring a technical problem.
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Process Automation Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Deserving project that best displays the use of automation to solve a technical problem.
Prize: $100
Criteria: Deserving project that best displays the use of chemical testing and/or chemical principles to solve a technical problem.
Prize: $100
Criteria: Deserving project that best displays the use of Quality Systems principles and design to solve a technical problem.
The Electrical Construction Association of Hamilton Award
Prize: $250
Criteria: A project displaying the best and safest use of electricity in a creative manner.
Gowlings Innovation Award
Prize: $250
Criteria: The award will be given in any category for a project that exploits multiple areas of intellectual property protection, namely trademarks, patents, industrial designs and copyright. The prize includes a complimentary consultation with a patent or trade-mark agent at the Gowlings Hamilton office.
The James A. Winger Award sponsored by Hamilton Amateur Astronomers
Prize: Astronomy book plus $100 cash award
Criteria: Best project in demonstrating an understanding of a topic related to astronomy or physics.
Hamilton Wentworth Occasional Teachers Local Awards
Environmental and Education Award
Prize: $50 and Certificate
Criteria: Junior project which most effectively educates others about an environmental issue.
Healthy Lifestyles Award
Prize: $50 and Certificate
Criteria: Junior project which most effectively educates others regarding the role of nutrition and/or exercise in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Presentation and Aesthetics Award
Prize: $50 and Certificate
Criteria: Junior project which demonstrates a high level of visual appeal, creativity, and overall quality of presentation.
Hillfield Strathallan College Awards of Excellence
Design and Engineering
Prize: One cash award of $100
Criteria: Senior project that best displays innovation in identifying an ergonomic design problem
Environmental Sciences
Prize: One cash award of $100
Criteria: Junior or Intermediate project that best displays innovation in identifying an environmental problem
Health Sciences
Prize: One cash award of $100
Criteria: Intermediate project that best displays excellence in sampling design in a health science project
The IEEE Hamilton Section Awards
Prize: Two awards of $100 each
Criteria: Two projects which show the best use of Electronics in a Science or Engineering project, any level.
McMaster University, Faculties of Science and Engineering Tuition Awards
Prize: (Five) $500 tuition entry awards, redeemable upon successful admission to either of the Faculties of Science or Engineering.
Criteria: Excellent science or engineering research.
McMaster Engineering Society Award
Prize: 2 Awards of $200 each.
Criteria : The best junior engineering projects demonstrating excellent understanding of engineering and its applications.
The Venture Science and Engineering Innovation Award, McMaster University
Prize: Free Registration to Venture Engineering Science Camp, Aug 7-10, 2012 and a certificate to the winning project
Criteria: Is presented to one Junior project that demonstrates creativity and originality.
Mechanical Contractors Association of Hamilton Award
Prize: $250
Criteria: Best engineering project, intermediate or senior level.
Mohawk College School of Engineering Technology Awards
Criteria: Project related to the field of civil engineering
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project related to planning, design, operation of any transportation mode or facility
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project related to building sciences, building materials, or energy conservation in structures
Prize: $100
Criteria: A deserving intermediate or senior project related to applied chemistry
Prize: $50
Criteria: A deserving junior project in environmental studies
Prize: $50 cash award
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Prize: $100
Criteria: Outstanding project related to industrial engineering or manufacturing.
Prize: Two $50 cash awards
Criteria: One award for $50 to a deserving junior project in engineering. Second award for $50 to a deserving senior project in engineering studies.
Prize: Two (2) $50 cash awards
Criteria: Deserving projects in the mathematics division, or any project from any division demonstrating a thorough understanding of statistics, any level.
National Science & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Awards
Prize: $250 to each of two projects.
Criteria: Deserving projects demonstrating innovative and creative research by the student.
Nelson Steel Awards
Prize: Two prizes of $50 in each of the following fields: steel, environmental or chemistry
Criteria: $50 cash award for outstanding projects related to one of the following fields: steel, environmental and chemistry. Preference given to junior levels
Dr. Nicola Simmons Award in Cognition Studies
Prize: One prize of $100
Criteria: An exemplary project in cognition studies.
Primary Fluid Systems Awards
Junior or Intermediate Engineering Awards
Two Prizes each of: $250, $150, $100
Criteria: Deserving projects in Junior or Intermediate Engineering
Junior or Intermediate Physical Sciences Awards
Two Prizes each of: $125, $75, $50
Criteria: Deserving projects in Junior or Intermediate Physical Sciences
Junior or Intermediate Earth & Environmental Sciences Awards
Two Prizes each of: $125, $75, $50
Criteria: Deserving projects in Junior or Intermediate Earth & Environment
Professional Engineers Ontario (Hamilton-Burlington Chapter) Awards
Prize: 1st: $250, 2nd: $150, 3rd: $100
Criteria: To the top three most outstanding Engineering Project Exhibitors at any level.
Professional Engineers Ontario (Oakville Chapter) Engineering Award
Prize: Two awards of $100 each
Criteria: To two deserving engineering projects.
Procor Engineering Awards
Prize: Junior $50; Intermediate $100; Senior $150
Criteria: Excellent engineering projects.
University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship Award
Prize: $1000 admission scholarship (or two $500 scholarships for a pair project) toward tuition fees upon being accepted into and registration in an undergraduate program in the Faculties of Engineering, Science or Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa.
Criteria: The most deserving Senior project.
Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories Award
Prize: One cash Award of $100, to be sent after the fair
Criteria: Outstanding project at any level in disciplines such as biochemistry, chemistry, microbiology, toxicology, and forensic science, and incorporating analytical laboratory techniques or physical methods of analysis, for example a spectrometer or chromatograph.
John W. Howard Materials Research Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: A project demonstrating innovation in engineering materials, especially concrete.
Hydro One Energy Ambassador Award
Prize: One Prize of $100, to be sent after the fair.
Criteria: For a project at any level, with outstanding scientific quality and whose primary focus is the distribution, supply, management, use or conservation of electrical energy (or alternatively,other forms of energy if suitable projects relating to electrical energy are not available)
University of Ontario Institute of Technology Innovation Award
Prize: Two prizes of $100 each, to be sent after the fair
Criteria: Outstanding projects demonstrating the most innocative development, adaptation, or use of technology in any subject area. One award at the junior level; one award at any level.
Ontario Ministry of the Environment Award
Prize: One prize of $100, to be sent after the fair
Criteria: Outstanding junior project in any category which demonstrates a creative approach to an environmental problem that could lead to cleaner air, land or water.
Horizon Utilities Corporation Award
Prize: Three awards of $300 each
Criteria: Project that best demonstrates the production of electrical energy from "green sources", or new, viable approaches to using electrical energy more efficiently.
Conservation Halton Environmental Sciences Award
Criteria: Awarded to the top two Environmental Research, Protection, Conservation, restoration or awareness Projects done by a Halton Student.
Nippissing University Regional Science Fair Award
Prize: One scholarship award of $1000
Criteria: To a senior project, any category to be paid out upon registration at Nipissing University
OCRiT-SCCRI Regenerative Medicine Award
Prize: Two awards of $250 each
Criteria: Awarded to an outstanding project in the field of biology that demonstrates creative and critical thinking. Preference will be given to projects that relate to regenerative medicine and its applications to human health.
Royal Botanical Gardens Award
Prize: $100 gift certificate from RBG shop plus 1 year family membership
Criteria: Best project in botanical or environmental sciences
Dr. Odette Tunks Award
Prize: Two awards of $100 each
Criteria: Two awards to the most creative or innovative projects, any level
Hidden Science Award
Prize: $150 and Nikola Tesla Library (book & DVD)
Criteria: Prize will be awarded to the project which best reflects Nikula Tesla’s ideas and discoveries with emphasis on those involved in protecting the planet or alternate energies or increasing the efficiency of the human body.
SPIE Optics & Photonics Science Fair Award
Disclaimer: In order to receive your monetary award, please contact SPIE. BASEF will not be responsible for awarding your monetary prize.
Laurentian Chapter of SETAC Award
Prize: One cash award of $200
Criteria: Best project and presentation on a topic related to Environmental toxicology, chemistry, pollution, contamination, remediation or environmental protection.
Intel Excellence Awards for Regional Science Fairs affiliated with the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair
Prize: One prizes of $200 (U.S.) (to be sent after the fair.)
Criteria: The top winner of Computer Science category in Intermediate or Senior level.
International Science & Engineering Affiliated Fair Awards for Regional Science Fairs affiliated with the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair
Prize: Certificates
Criteria: Deserving intermediate and senior projects related to topics of interest to the following organizations:
American Meteorological Society
Criteria: For an Intermediate or Senior project Best ability and creativity in an atmospheric science exhibit.
American Psychological Assoc.
Criteria: outstanding research in psychology under the category of behavioural and social sciences.
ASM Materials
Criteria: outstanding exhibit in materials science.
Association for Women Geoscientists
Criteria: Project by female student(s) demonstrating high standards of innovativeness and scientific excellence in the geosciences.
Herbert Hoover Young Engineer Award
Criteria: Outstanding Engineering Project.
International Society for Optical Engineering
Criteria: Best project in the area of Optical Science or Engineering.
MU Alpha Theta
Criteria: Intermediate or Senior project demonstrating the most challenging, original, thorough and creative investigation or problem involving mathematics.
Ricoh Sustainable Development Award
Criteria: Most outstanding project, selected among all the general award categories, whose principles and technical innovations offer the greatest potential for increasing our ability to grow environmentally friendly and socially responsible businesses.
Society for In Vitro Biology
Criteria: grade 11 project exhibiting in the areas of plant or animal in vitro biology or tissue culture
Yale Science & Engineering Association
Criteria: Most outstanding grade 11 student exhibiting in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry.
Doris Casey Disability Solutions Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Most innovative and creative technical solution focused on assisting individuals to overcome or compensate for physical or cognitive disabilities.
Dillon Consulting Science/Engineering and Biological Sciences Awards
Prize: Two Cash Awards of $300
Criteria: Awards to be presented to 2 separate projects
One Project showing excellence in Science/Engineering and the Second excellence in Biological Sciences
Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research Internship Award
Prize: One paid summer Internship of 6 weeks, as a research assistant in a laboratory at the M.G. DeGroote IIDR Institute at McMaster University or value equivalent in cash (value $2,150.)
Criteria: Best senior student project in infectious disease, drug discovery or human health.
The Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Award
Prize: 2 Awards of $250 each
Criteria: The awards will be given in any category for a project that scientifically explores the fields of digestive health, related diseasesor general family nutrition through experimentation or in depth literature review.
The Crownpoint Family Health Center Awards (NEW)
Prize: 2 Awards of $80 each
Criteria: Any project that involves the study of human social interaction.
The LEAP Award of Innovation Award
Prize $200 off a $650 registration fee for the Leap Summer program in 2012
Criteria: The LEAP Award of Innovation is presented to one senior Project in Grades 9,10,11,12 that demonstrates creativity and originality.
The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Innovation Award
Prize: $500 – 1st $250, 2nd $150, 3rd $100
Criteria: The Hamilton Chamber Award is for deserving projects with potential commercial applications (in any division) for students from Hamilton focused on improving our local environment, communities or quality of life.
The Hamilton-East Wentworth Rotary Awards (NEW)
Prize: $500 – 1st $250, 2nd $150, 3rd $100
Criteria: The best 3 projects displaying high academic achievement, that are situated within the Core Hamilton and Regional Communities and are striving to excel in Science and Technology
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