Renert High School – Calgary, Alberta Innoskate redefines ice rink maintenance by engineering E. coli to secrete ice-nucleating proteins, raising the freezing temperature of ice and decreasing the energy required for refrigeration. Team Grade Level: High School...
Our Lady of the Snows Engineering Club – Canmore, Alberta Carbon Replay is revolutionizing sustainable materials with its proposed network of small modular bioreactors (SMbRs), which produce high-value, carbon-sequestering PLA bioplastic composites. Team Grade...
United Robotics of Lacombe – Lacombe, Alberta We will improve our hive monitor system, tracking temperature, humidity, and CO2. Partnering with Gull Lake Honey, we’ll refine the design, test in winter, and develop an app for real-time data. Team Grade Level:...
Lethbridge High School iGEM – Lethbridge, Alberta We will improve canola’s drought tolerance, by using engineered Arthrobacter globiformis to deliver siRNA targeting bHLH61, a gene shown to increase drought resilience in plants like Arabidopsis. Team Grade...