— Ahmad Ali, 17, Brent Charron, 16, and Callum Yoker, 13 — all received medals after competing against 462 others their age. SignSMART gloveAli received a bronze medal and a $1,000 entrance scholarship to Western University for his invention, SignSMART, a glove that translates ASL gestures into text and speech. Callum Yoker, 13, designed a new way of manipulating cell membranes, earning him a junior gold medal at the Canada-Wide Science Fair. "A good example of this is the human insulin gene. If you've ever wondered how they actually get the insulin to put in insulin shots, they take the human insulin gene and move it across the bacterial cell membrane and into the cell," he said.

Source: CBC News May 23, 2019 09:00 UTC