Swift Current Duo Moving On to Canada-Wide Science Fair

A pair of Swift Current students are moving on to Canada-Wide Science Fair later this spring after claiming gold in their respective divisions last night at the Saskatchewan Chinook Regional Science Fair.

Swift Current Comprehensive High School grade 10 student Parth Shah and Fairview School grade eight student Haden Harrison were named the winners and will be taking their projects to Fredericton in mid-May for the national competition.

Shah's project which won him gold in the intermediate division was called 'Intuition' and it's an app-based program that allows app making easier for people.

"App making is, you have to learn coding and programming and all of that and it's too hard for most people to do," he said. "What Intuition does is it makes the whole process much simpler and it lets anybody make an app."

Shah will have some experience behind him at nationals this time around as he won the Saskatchewan Chinook Regional Science Fair junior category back in 2017 with a project on heart rate and light.

"I've been there before, but Fredericton is much bigger," he said. 

This will be the first time for Harrison on the national science fair stage as he won the junior category this year with a project called 'This is Warped' and focused on how mass effects gravitational force in space.

"The largest thing I learned during this project was everything in space bends space-time," Harrison said. "So that space-time being a combination of x,y, z-axis that means moving forward, backward, left, right, up, and down, combined with time and however long it would take you to do those actions."

"For this particular project, in school, we had not really went over the concept itself, so I was looking for something to expand my knowledge and create different viewpoints for myself."

The Canada-Wide Science Fair starts on May 15 and runs until May 17 this year and will be held at the University of New Brunswick campus.