A team of students from St. Mary-St. Cecilia Catholic School in Morrisburg, Ontario, won first place in the Samsung Canada: Solve for Tomorrow contest with their invention of a compact hydrogen generator.
A group of students and teachers at St. Mary-St. Cecilia Catholic School in Morrisburg, Ont., has claimed first place in a national competition with a project that could help shape the future of sustainable energy. The team of seven students, who were in Grade 6 when the project began, developed a compact hydrogen-powered generator, designed to produce energy on demand. Its potential use could be to power homes, schools, or greenhouses.
'It could be used up in the north where it's colder or they might not have a lot of sunlight for solar panels,' says Tessa Laurin, one of the students who helped build the generator. 'It only uses a little bit of electricity, and the generator is clean because it doesn't release fossil fuels into the environment.' The project took five months to complete, with students working before and after school. Along the way, they faced challenges, including material malfunctions, but ultimately succeeded under the guidance of teachers Blair Fitzsimons and Laura Ferguson. 'There was a lot of determination and resilience involved,' says Ferguson. 'It was this team of seven who really banded together and aloud for the creativity to flow and the leadership to come through.' Their project won the Samsung Canada: Solve for Tomorrow contest, a nationwide STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) competition for students in grades 6 to 12. The first-place win earned the school $50,000 to support future learning. 'It really means that every student can become an innovator,' says Fitzsimons. 'That was really one of the hopes with this project is how to empower kids to transform the world and change the worl
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