Patrick Wins GOLD ... Best in Canada

We're so proud to announce that today Patrick was awarded the GOLD MEDAL for the Best Junior Engineering Project at the CWSF in Peterborough.  There is only ONE given and our Patrick was the fortunate one to receive it.  That means he's the BEST in Canada.  I can't believe that it happened and it is just settling in that he won.  Nearly 500 students from across Canada competed in 9 different categories (one of which is Engineering) and only one GOLD, 2 SILVER and 3 BRONZE are given in each of these categories for Juniors (grades 7-8), Intermediates (grades 9-10) and Seniors (grades 11-12).  There are 9 potential Junior Gold Medals offered up and some categories did not even have projects that merited it being awarded.

For his achievement, Patrick received a GOLD MEDAL, $1,500 Cash and a $10,000 Scholarship to any University in Canada (oops, May 26 editor addendum: we were misinformed, Patrick's division's GOLD MEDAL is awarded a $4,000 scholarship ... only the Environment Innovation division had the unique $10,000 scholarships).  Of the 9 divisions, 7 (?) qualify for the Best Junior Project in Fair.  We're not sure how Patrick fared in this particular competition but the winner received a further $5,000 in cash ... something to shoot for next year in grade 8.

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Congratulations, Patrick!