Youth Science Canada picks students to represent the country at Regeneron ISEF 2023 competition

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A group of eight high school students are all set to represent the country at the premiere youth STEM project competitions, the 2023 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. The students will compete in Dallas, Texas on May 14 to 19. They were picked by a panel of STEM professionals from across the country based on the "level of ingenuity, critical thinking, scientific excellence, and communication skill in developing their STEM project." You can see a rundown of the students competing under the cut.

Team Canada-ISEF 2023 comprises (left to right and top to bottom in photo):

• Cindy Cheng (Waterloo, Ontario) - Detecting hypoxia through the non-invasive monitoring of sweat lactate and tissue oxygenation
• Aditya Dewan (Mississauga, Ontario) - SPRKD: Effective Knowledge Distillation for Deep Neural Networks via Saddle Region Approximation
• Max Du (Calgary, Alberta) - A Novel Pre-Hospital Indoor Rescue Drone
• Keerthan Kamala Krishnamoorthy (Winnipeg, Manitoba) - Detection of Harmful Microorganisms in Drinking Water using Deep Learning
• Krish Modi (Sarnia, Ontario) - Pee Xylophone: A Novel Non-Invasive System to Measure Bladder Pressure
• Annabelle Rayson (Sarnia, Ontario) - Plankton Wars: An Innovative Analysis of Daphnia Genotype Biomanipulation for Algae Bloom Prevention
• Thomas Yang (Toronto, Ontario) - Seeing Cells without a Lens: Compact 3D Digital Lensless Holographic Microscopy for Wide-field Imaging
• Tara Zhan (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Hemistride: Design of a Low-Cost and Backdrivable Lower-Limb Exoskeleton for Hemiplegic Patients

 You can learn more about Team Canada-ISEF 2023 here.