Neepawa pair wins Best of Fair award
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Killing bacteria with different household items has led two Grade 12 students from Neepawa to compete in the Canada-Wide Science Fair.
Tyler Stilwell and James McKay were awarded the coveted Best of Fair Award at the Western Manitoba Science Fair this week for their project titled “Bacteria Versus the Common Cleaning Myths.”
The pair used different cleaning agents, household items and natural products to see which one would kill the bacteria most effectively.
“The lemon juice and vinegar worked, and so did the Lysol spray,” Stilwell said. “The three natural ways killed it better than Lysol did.”
Stilwell said they came up with the idea after noticing the school’s cleaning products.
“We were sitting in our class one day, and we saw the janitor come in with his cart and all the chemicals on the cart had … symbols on them, like poisonous and corrosive,” Stilwell said. “So we thought it must not be very good for kids to sit all day touching those chemicals.”
Held on Tuesday at the Keystone Centre, the WMSF brought out 475 students in Grades 1 to 12 from across Westman.
Stilwell and McKay also walked away with the Biotechnology gold medal, Brandon University Award and Medical Laboratory Technology Award.
“I didn’t really believe it at first, I was really surprised,” McKay said.
Rashmini Shunmugam of École Harrison was the runner-up with the project titled “Mind blowing, heart thumping finger,” in the Grades 7-8 category.
All three students will move on to the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Charlottetown, P.E.I., which runs May 12-19 at the University of Prince Edward Island.
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