Samsung Canada announced the four winning schools in the 2018 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge. Today, Samsung Canada announced the final four regional winners in its annual Solve for Tomorrow Challenge, a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-based education initiative that seeks to ignite student passion in these subjects. This year, Bernice MacNaughton High School (Moncton, NB), Thornlea Secondary School (Thornhill, ON), Meadows West School (Winnipeg, MB) and Westwood Community High School (Fort McMurray, AB) will each receive $20,000 in Samsung technology as a result of their creative and collaborative STEM solutions to real-world issues facing their communities.
The four regional winning STEM solutions are:
- Western Region- Westwood Community High School (Fort McMurray, AB)
- Highlighting an opportunity to increase community awareness around energy technology, students engineered weekly STEM workshops to engage students in Grades 4 through 9 in a hands-on learning environment.
- Central Region- Meadows West School (Winnipeg, MB)
- Students launched an awareness campaign to demonstrate dangerous traffic violations in their school zone, inviting parents to experience these violations through the eyes of a young student using virtual reality.
- Eastern Region- Thornlea Secondary School (Thornhill, ON)
- With bees identified as endangered, students designed an auto-pollination system that will act as a contingency plan to support plants that are dependent on bees and other natural pollinators.
- Atlantic Region- Bernice MacNaughton High School (Moncton, NB)
- Students identified a need for increased healthy food options for their school community, constructing an aquaponic garden system to grow a steady supply of fruits and vegetables for students, by students.
Samsung Canada thanks all schools who participated in the 2018 Solve for Tomorrow Challenge. Together with partners Let's Talk Science, the Ontario Science Centre, and Solve for Tomorrow Ambassador Natalie Panek, the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge continues to engage and inspire Canadian students through STEM in hopes of inspiring meaningful community solutions.