St. Pat’s student wins top prize at Lambton County Science Fair

More than 50 science projects were showcased at Lambton College during the annual Lambton County Science Fair, with three local students advancing to the national competition.

The annual Lambton County Science Fair took place April 4–5 at Lambton College, drawing nearly 80 student participants and more than 100 volunteer judges. A total of 52 projects were showcased over the weekend by budding scientists from across the region.

Top honours went to Cyndi Rayson, a Grade 9 student at St. Patrick’s Catholic High School, who earned the Best of Fair award for her project The Cost of Color: An Innovative Analysis of Azo Dye Reduction and Combination Effect.

Rayson will go on to represent Lambton County at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Fredericton this June, alongside two other local students: Mustafa Arif, a Grade 9 student at Northern Collegiate, for his project Novel Multimodal AI Architectures for Motor Intent Decoding in Assistive BCIs, and Ben Harper, a Grade 8 student at St. Philip Catholic School, for his climate-focused project A Wavy Problem – Navigating the Surges of Climate Change.

Organizers of the Lambton County Science Fair extended their thanks to all participants, volunteers, and sponsors for making the weekend a success.

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