Media Advisory/Photo-Op - Ingenious biofilter earns Ontario teen the 2013 Weston Youth Innovation Award
Ontario Science Centre announces winner of national prize
TORONTO, May 30, 2013 /CNW/ - Join us as we honour the 2013 Weston Youth Innovation Award winner Adam Noble, from Lakefield, Ontario. The Ontario teen has invented a novel biofilter using Euglena (a single-celled organism) that removes potentially hazardous nano-silver from water. Noble's biofilter is tentatively planned to be deployed in Lindsay and Peterborough this summer, and he is now devising a way to use the captured nano-silver in cancer treatments.
The Weston Youth Innovation Award was established to encourage and recognize young Canadian innovators and was named in recognition of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation's $15 million lead gift to the Ontario Science Centre's Agents of Change initiative and to honour the Foundation's support and commitment to education.
WHAT: | Presentation of the 2013 Weston Youth Innovation Award | |
WHEN: | Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. | |
WHO: | Adam Noble, 2013 Weston Youth Innovation Award Winner | |
Lesley Lewis, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Science Centre | ||
Dr. Hooley McLaughlin, Vice President Science Experience and Chief Science Officer, Ontario Science Centre, Award Jury Member | ||
Serena Mitchell, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, Award Jury Member | ||
Walter Stoddard, Researcher/Programmer - Engineering Science, Ontario Science Centre | ||
Andressa Lacerda, PhD Candidate, Researcher, Trent University | ||
WHERE: | Weston Family Innovation Centre, Level 6, Ontario Science Centre | |
770 Don Mills Road, Toronto, ON | ||
RELEASE: | http://cnw.ca/9ggnGd |
SOURCE: Ontario Science Centre
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Media Contact:
Anna Relyea, Director, Strategic Communications, Ontario Science Centre
416-696-3273, [email protected]
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