Pierrefonds Community High School students eye national science fair after local awards [Video]

Three Pierrefonds Community High School students have won Genius awards for their science projects.

They earned accolades at the local level and are now taking their work to higher levels of competition.

Now, they are going from a grassroots local science fair to the regionals and soon to the provincials.

Their, principal, Lucia Coretti, says she was impressed by “the creativity, the attention to detail and the innovative ideas.”

Grade 10 students Isolde MacKay and Sophia Elizabeth Ross created a water purification system called “HydroPure.”

It identifies microorganisms in water by testing for the proteins and enzymes they produce.

“The idea behind the protection system was that if we can speed up the process at which that reaction is happening — with microorganisms breaking it down into a pink dye — we could have a fast detection system, which is why there are favourable conditions for microorganisms such as the …