CALGARY – A Calgary teen has won a $25,000 scholarship from Google for her science project about speeding up the detoxification of oilsands tailings ponds.
Hayley Todesco’s project beat all the other submissions from 17- and 18-year-old students around the world at the Google Science Fair.
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It’s Todesco’s second big award win this month.
On Sept. 3, she received the 2014 Stockholm Junior Water Prize for her oilsands research, which came with a $15,000 award and $5,000 for her school.
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This is the second year in a row that a Canadian won a top prize at the Google Science Fair.
Last year, Victoria’s Ann Makosinski, who was 15, won in her age group for her project, a flashlight powered by body heat.
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