TWO CANADIAN FEEN SCIENTISTS COMPETE AT BIO2012 INTERNATIONAL BIOTECH COMPETITION

摘要

At the 2012 International BioGE-NEius Challenge, held in Boston, Canada was well represented with projects from teen scientists Janelle Tam, a 16-year-old from Waterloo Collegiate Institute, and Rui Song, a 16-year-old from Walter Murray Collegiate, in Saskatoon. Teen scientist Song went on to place third at the international competition for her research on more nourishing lentils, an important global food source and one of Saskatchewan's mam crops. The competition was for high school students who through science research projects show above-average understanding of biotechnology. Winners of the competition were announced dur- ing the keynote luncheon at the 2012 Bio Intemational Convention. Song's mentors, Dr. Kirstin Bett and Rob Stonehouse of the Plant Sciences Department at the University of Saskatchewan said her work raises the hope of developing a new, more nutritious variety of lentil.