Students from the Sudbury Catholic District School Board had a tremendous showing at the 34th Sudbury Regional Science Fair held at Laurentian University this weekend winning 16 out of 44 awards. St. Francis students collected a total of 10 medals followed closely by Marymount Academy students who gathered up 6 medals in the Junior Life, Junior Physical, and Junior Engineering categories.

The top 5 projects from both the Sudbury Catholic and Rainbow District School Boards received gold medals and will now move on to represent the City of Greater Sudbury and their respective schools at the Canada Wide Science Fair which will be held in Calgary, May 11 to 18. Gold medal winners pictured,(left to right) include; Niall Williams, Lockerby Composite School, Andrew Mulloy and Nick Ryan, RL Beattie, Michael Stanford, RL Beattie, Shawn Cashin, St.Francis, and Andrew Pawluch, St. Francis.

Also honoured at the awards ceremony were Colette Mathe, teacher from Ecole Notre Dame and Zandra Zubac, Director of Education for the Sudbury Catholic District School Board for their years of service on the Executive Committee.