2008 Crystal Growing Contest Details

RESULTS OF THE 2008
CANADA-WIDE CRYSTAL GROWING COMPETITION

CANADA-WIDE

A special thank you to:

Anachemia Science for providing the copper II sulphate for the contest
BASF for providing the prizes
The many teachers who supervised their students and gave a lot of their own time
The Chemical Institute of Canada volunteers who coordinated the contest in their local area
The panel of judges who volunteered to evaluate the crystals at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi just before Christmas.

2008 Canadian Crystal Growing Competition Best Overall Crystal
School (Participant number corresponding to photos)	Students	Weight (g)	Quality (/10)	Overall Score (/100)	Overall Rank
$300 prize for school Harry Ainlay High School Edmonton, AB	Lina Zhang Rongjia Liu	53.705	6.68	58	1
$200 prize for school Fellowes High School Pembrooke, ON	Erica Rutz	30.776	6.83	51	2
$100 prize for school St-Joseph College School Toronto, ON	Milka Anbesse Christiane Dizon Kaitlyn Chan	87.203	5.14	50	3
École Monseigneur-Labrie Saguenay, QC	Amélie Thériault David Richard Mireille Côté	35.288	6.21	48	4
Polytechnique St-François Québec, QC	Élondie Chamberland-Poul Marie-HèlènePaquet Roxanne Fecteau	23.845	6.09	42	5
Holy Cross Secondary Kingston, ON	Jessica Boczec Abbie Poitras	14.663	6.89	41	6
Polyvalente de Saint-Georges Montréal, QC	Ann-Frédérick	37.895	4.34	37	6
North Hastings High School Bancroft, ON	Hailey Huszarik	50.264	4.14	35.4	8
Crofton House School Vancouver, BC	Grace Chan	14.726	5.91	35.4	9
École François-Bourrin Québec, QC	Charles Lafrance Frédéric Vaillancourt François Guérard	35.877	4.32	34	double submission
Alexis Christmas Fredericton, NB	Yohan Kim	35.655	4.20	33	10 not in photo
Grant Park High School Winnipeg, MB	Ali Almaleki Paymahn Mohadasion Jeff Zharg	7.647	6.14	29	11
Centre l'Escale Gatieneau, QC	Christiane Girard Maxime Séguin B. Mireille Boudreau Johanie Boileau	24.7 59	3.73	26	12
École Gabriel Le-Courtois Outlier, QC	Karine Brisebois Cindy Servant Allen Ouellet Sarah L"Italien Stacy Lindsay Sarah Bernier Sergerie	33.025	3.07	23	13
Sackville High School Lower Sackville, NS	Josh Caldwell Brandon Surette	3.747	6.73	23	14
George McDougall High School Airdrie, AB	Justin Conroy	25.266	2.83	20	15
York House School Vancouver, BC	Kathleen Beekman	3.606	5.77	19	16
BMLSS Bracebridge, ON	Jessica Curry	3.5	5.44	18	17

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2008 Canadian Crystal Growing Competition Best Quality Crystal
School	Students	Quality (/10)	Overall Rank
Stevenston-London Secondary School Richmond, BC	Jeffrey Wong Jeremy Mak Douglas Kao	8.92	does not meet minimum crystal size rule
$200 prize for school Collège catholique Samuel-Genest Ottawa, ON	Josée Aziz Michelle Dillon Katrina Albert Natalie Georges Rebecca Roufael	7.90	1
Polyvalente des Appalaches Québec, QC	Éric Pouliot Tim Jolin-Grenon Alexandre Layouette	7.72	2
Holy Cross Secondary School Kingston, ON	Kate Running Nicole Minnema	7.19	3
York Mills Collegiate Institute Toronto, ON	Mohina Mivahedi Kathy (Xinxin) Yu	7.11	4
Sackville High School Lower Sackville, NS	Caitlin Galbraith Chelsea Hill Khristine MacIsaac	7.03	5
Grant Park High School Winnipeg, MB	Per Kraut Ryan Henrie	6.82	6
Harry Ainlay High School Edmonton, AB	Julia Jin Stephanie Bohaichuk Janie Hoo	67.79	7
École Monseigneur-Labrie Saguenay, QC	Karyna Boudreau Rémi Lavoie-Moore	6.62	8
École secondaire Natagan Barraute, QC	Roxanne Bédard Jenny-Lee Michaud	5.97	9
George McDougall High School Airdrie, AB	Jessica Greening	5.20	10
Fredericton High School Fredericton, NB	Katie Pelkey	4.80	11 not in photo
Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School Bracebridge, ON	Micah Simmons	4.49	12
Centre l'Escale Gatineau, QC	Pricille Drouin	4.04	13
York House School Vancouver, BC	Kayla Lee	3.52	14
École Gabriel Le-Courtois Outlier, QC	Karine Brisebois Cindy Servant Allen Ouellet Sarah L"Italien Stacy Lindsay Sarah Bernier Sergerie	3.32	15

2007 Canadian Crystal Growing Competition
Participants and Results
Teachers

2008 Canadian Crystal Growing Competition Best Teacher's Crystal
School	Teachers	Weight (g)	Quality (/10)	Overall Score (/100)	Overall Rank
$200 prize for school Harry Ainlay High School Edmonton, AB	Aura Pombert	42.936	7.11	58	1
Northern Secondary School Toronto, ON	Steve Kim	72.432	5.30	49	2
École secondaire Natagan Barraute, QC	Jacques Tremblay	27.336	6.19	45	3
École secondaire Louis Riel Gloucester, ON	Roch Lavigne	47.05	5.13	43	4
Centre l'Escale Gatineau, QC	France Garnier	23.348	5.80	40	5
York House School Vancouver, BC	Dennise Dombroski	6.411	7.30	32	6
École Polyvalente La Pocatière Québec, QC	Marc Bélanger	5.066	6.77	26	7
ESLE Québec, QC	Huguette Lamontagne	3.786	6.79	23	8
ESLE Québec, QC	François Cliche	3.372	6.76	22	9
Prince Andrew High Schol Dartmouth, NS	Ellen Louth	2.779	5.48	16	10
ESLE Québec, QC	Hélène Martel	3.798	3.46	12	11
ESLE Québec, QC	Huguette Lamontagne		6.32	3	does not meet minimum crystal size rule

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