Each year, BASEF receives generous support from many corporations, organizations, professional associations who donate funds for the merit prizes, student activities, and fair production costs. Without these "general sponsorship" donations, the fair could not be what it is.
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Through their personal donations, many individuals support the BASEF. Together with corporate and organizational sponsorship donations, benefactor donations help to make the fair what it is. BASEF’s benefactor levels celebrate famous Canadian scientist and engineers
Dr. Michael Smith won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering site-directed mutagenesis: how to make a genetic mutation precisely at a spot in a DNA molecule.
Elsie McGill was Canada’s first woman graduate in electrical engineering. She also held a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering. She is considered the first woman to be a designer of airplanes; During WW II her primary responsibility was the production of the Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft.
Mr. Norman Young
John Charles Polanyi won the 1986 Nobel prize for chemistry for using chemiluminescence of molecules to explain energy relationships in chemical reactions.
Mr. John & Mrs. Eleanor O'Flynn
Mrs. Sue & Mr. Peter Olynyk
Dr. Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman to have flown in space as an international astronaut on board the Space Shuttle Discovery. Dr. Bondar is a trained physician, scientist, astronaut and photographer.
Mr. George Geczy
Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best were the co-discovers of insulin used in the treatment of diabetes. In 1923, Dr. Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Dr. Peter Child and Mrs. Ola Lunyk-Child
Mr. David Walker
Dr. Ranjan & Dr. Monalisa Sur