Science Expo

Thank you for another wonderful year celebrating discovery, innovation, and investigation at the 2026 Science Expo. We look forward to seeing what kind of experiments the bright minds of Coquitlam come up with next year!

Middle Category (grades 6–8)

1st Place:  Elvyn Zhang and Evelyn Zhang, École Kwayhquitlum Middle School
Project: REBO: the Rehab Companion Robot for Knee Replacement Surgery

2nd Place: Sapir Shachar, Eagle Mountain Middle School
Project: Wind Tunnel Aerodynamics Project

3rd Place: Athan Choy, Our Lady of Fatima School and Brendan Zhang, Hillcrest Middle School
Project: The Best Jammer (swim pants) Length for a Male in a Swim Race

Junior Category (grades 9–10)

1st Place:  Dylan Lim, Charles Best Secondary School and Kevin Wu, Port Moody Secondary School
Project: Exploring Instrument Strings

2nd Place: Dylan Munro, Terry Fox Secondary School
Project: Fillcycle: the Return of the Plastic Recycler

3rd Place: Simreet Kaur and Jasmine Chan, Centennial Secondary School
Project: Bio-degradable Menstrual Pads

Senior Category (grades 11–12)

1st Place: Parsa Rokni, Pinetree Secondary School
Project: A Multi-Level Model of Learning Intensity:  Linking Calcium Dynamics, Neural Synchronization, and Behavioral Memory Performance

2nd Place: Daniel Zhang, Pinetree Secondary School
Project: FastRL: Speeding up Training of a Self-balancing Pendulum

3rd Place: Lincoln Ho, Pinetree Secondary School
Project: MEDPI: Improving Health Literacy Safely and Privately

Honorable Mention: Tiffany Lin, Pinetree Secondary School
Project: Pestalotiopsis microspora Fungal Biodegradation of PLA, PP, and PET Plastics