11 Schools Named National Finalists in Canada's first-ever Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge

11 Schools Named National Finalists in Canada's first-ever Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge

Inspired by STEM and 21(st) century learning, innovative student-led community solutions see each school rewarded with $20,000 in Samsung technology

MISSISSAUGA, ON, March 21, 2016 /CNW/ - Today, Samsung Canada announced the 11 finalist schools in Canada's first-ever Samsung Solve for Tomorrow (SFT) Challenge. Thanks to their innovative, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)-inspired community solutions, each of the 11 finalist schools will receive $20,000 in Samsung classroom technology. The schools move closer to one of two Grand Prize packages, which include additional Samsung technology and an exciting STEM experience at their school with well-known Canadian Youtubers Mitchell Moffitt and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE.

The 11 national finalists were judged from a pool of 55 semi-finalist submissions, each of whom created a short video documenting their school's STEM solution to a local community issue. The 11 finalist submissions now move on to the public voting phase where the public will have a chance to select one of two Grand Prize winners, with the second Grand Prize winner selected by the judging panel. Canadians can vote for their favourite project at www.solvefortomorrow.ca until April 18, 2016. The two Grand Prize winning schools will be announced on April 25, 2016.

Along with popular Canadian Youtubers Mitchell Moffitt and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE, the Solve for Tomorrow Challenge is supported by The Learning Partnership, a national charitable organization dedicated to advancing public education in Canada, and Let's Talk Science, a charitable youth development organization which creates and delivers free STEM learning programs and services that support educators and strengthen student learning outcomes.

To learn more about the contest rules and regulations please visit the Official Rules page and check us out online @SamsungCanada and #SamsungSolve on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

The 11 finalists in the 2016 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge are as follows:


School Name City, Province Project Description
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Charlottetown Rural Charlottetown, PEI At Charlottetown Rural, students
High School developed a STEM-based career website
for their local community.
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École Dr. Bernard Bonnyville, AB Students at Dr. Bernard Brosseau Middle
Brosseau Middle School applied STEM-learning to
School develop a water-fountain-filter that
improved the taste of their school's
drinking water.
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École St. Joseph's Yellowknife, NWT St. Joseph students used STEM to devise
School an innovative way to grow crops in the
Yellowknife tundra.
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Fort Richmond Winnipeg, MB Students at Fort Richmond Collegiate
Collegiate applied STEM learning to enable
increased WiFi signals in rural
communities by tethering internet
routers to helium balloons cast high
above Manitoba's prairies.
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Glendon School Glendon, AB The students at Glendon School have
developed a STEM solution to provide
sustainable fruits and vegetables for
their school's lunch and breakfast
programs.
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Gordon Graydon Mississauga, ON At Gordon Graydon Memorial, students
Memorial Secondary applied STEM learning to develop a
School microbead filtration system to benefit
Canada's Great Lakes.
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Sacred Heart School Estevan, SK Sacred Heart students devised a STEM
solution that will contribute to
cleaner coal emissions in their local
community, decreasing harmful air-
borne pollution.
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Sir James Dunn St. Andrews, NB Students at Sir James Dunn Academy
Academy applied STEM in its discovery of
alternative energy resources that
contribute to a more energy efficient
community.
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South Colchester Brookfield, NS At South Colchester Academy, students
Academy applied STEM to prevent river flooding
of their school's soccer pitch.
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St. Kevin's High Goulds, NFLD St. Kevin's high school has discovered
School how to use STEM to solve the harsh
Atlantic winters that wreak havoc on
Newfoundland's roads.
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Twin Oaks Elementary Laval, QC Students at Twin Oaks Elementary
School created a STEM-based carpool solution
to help their school's drop-off and
pick-up traffic issues.
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