STEAM Expo 2025
Some of the district’s keenest students gathered last week to show off science projects born of their own curiosity, initiative, and research at the annual ASD-W STEAM—Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math—Expo.
This year’s STEAM Expo took place on Thursday, March 20 at Woodstock’s AYR Motor Centre and featured 175 students displaying projects, with Grade 7-12 students competing for a chance to advance to the Regional Provincial STEM Showcase in Fredericton on April 2.
Here are their insights.
Lucas Lima Andrejanini
Grade 10, Leo Hayes High School
PROJECT: Keeping Our Skies Safe: Creating Canada’s Next Domestically Developed Fighter Jet
“It’s developing a fighter jet that Canada can produce domestically to give us more military independence, and also technological independence which, with the current geopolitical state of the world, is something we really need.”
Lucas Lima Andrejanini
“After I graduate, my plan is to go to university to do aerospace engineering, because that’s my thing. It’s something that I’m very passionate about, and something that I 100% want to make my career.”
Lucas Lima Andrejanini
Morolaoluwa Adekunle
Grade 8, Bliss Carman Middle School
PROJECT: Eco Munch
“My website is kind of like HelloFresh in a way. I believe what makes it special is my website is full of healthy options. But there are also junk food options. When you register for my website, you would have to set a limit on the junk food you eat. Then it would ask you what you would like to cut down on. When you reach your junk food limit, it would give you a warning and if you wanted to bypass that, you’d have to pay extra.”
Morolaoluwa Adekunle
“It gives users the incentive to revert to the healthier options, which is the purpose of them signing up in the first place—to live a healthier lifestyle.”
Morolaoluwa Adekunle
Will Bolden
Grade 3, Garden Creek School
PROJECT: Maglev Trains
“Maglev stands for magnetic levitation. It’s a train that, instead of rolling down the track, uses magnets to float above the track.”
Will Bolden
“I feel like I might want to go on one of these trains when I’m like an adult. But not right now. That would be pretty scary.”
Will Bolden
Sidney Bourgoin
Grade 8, Nackawic Middle School
PROJECT: Peeling Back the Waste: Exploring the Fertilizing Potential of Fruit Peels
“My project is about using different fruit peels as fertilizers, especially ones that you would usually throw away like avocados or bananas.”
Sidney Bourgoin
“[My parents] became vegetarians about 20 years ago when they got married. So once they had me and my brother, we’ve been vegetarian since then. They’ve always given us the choice to eat meat, but they’ve raised us well. And I think there are very good ways that you can be vegetarian. I very much enjoy the lifestyle.”
Sidney Bourgoin
Martha Pegg
Grade 4, Royal Road Elementary School
PROJECT: Salty Stems
“My question was, ‘what will happen if you give plants salty water.’ We had the first group with distilled water, the second group with very salty water, and third group with slightly salty water. Then we also planted bean seeds.”
Marth Pegg
“I also wondered if road salt used on highways in the winter may be hazardous to some types of plants near highways.”
Martha Pegg
Fifi Chen
Grade 10, Fredericton High School
PROJECT: Plasma: Can it be the Future Diagnostic Tool for Autoimmune Serology Tests?
“It’s kind of like a personal experience because one of my relatives was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and they did a surgical test with serum, but it took a long time for the results to appear. So I thought, ‘is there anything that could make the process faster or easier?’ I started looking into different solutions, and I came across plasma.”
Fifi Chen
“I like chemistry and I like biology and the sciences. But I’m also interested in becoming an ophthalmologist because I have eye myopia so I wanted to find a better care variant than laser surgery. Laser surgery has the risk of going blind, and I wanted to lower that risk if I can.”
Fifi Chen
“Anything that encourages students to follow their passions and interests in authentic ways is really what I’m hoping for—and to spread that love of curiosity throughout their lives.”
Peter Trusiak
Subject Coordinator – Science and Experiential Learning (K-12)
STEAM Expo 2025 Winners
| Pranav Shukla Fredericton High School, Grade 9 | AI EEG Analysis for Neurological Conditions |
| Raktika Galwa Fredericton High School, Grade 11 | Regulation of Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity during Tissue Remodeling |
| Onkit Saha & Kevin Cornell Fredericton High School, Grade 11 + Riverview High School | StratoSync: A Climate-Friendly Stratospheric Balloon with Autonomous Decent Mechanism via Gas Management |
| Lucas Lima Andrejanini Leo Hayes High School, Grade 10 | Keeping our Skies safe: Creating Canada’s next domestically-developed Fighter Jet |
| Harshavardhini Muthukumar George Street Middle School, Grade 8 | Breaking Down the Future: Exploring Decomposition and the Power of Bioplastics |
| Arielle Gallant Bliss Carman Middle School, Grade 8 | Feelix: Touchez. Apprenez. Grandissez – A compact braille device made for children or people with small hands |
| Scarlett McCann Nashwaaksis Middle School, Grade 8 | The Future of Plastic |
| Duncan Christie-Woodcock George Street Middle School, Grade 8 | La musique et la cerveaux |
| Katie Sharpe Cambridge-Narrows, Grade 9 | Chickens and a Cold Climate |
| Martha Binns George Street Middle School, Grade 7 | Les bactéries de l’école |
| SaiRaj Adhikari George Street Middle School, Grade 8 | Water’s true colours, the PH investigation |
| Sofiia Maliarenko George Street Middle School, Grade 8 | Are phones actually bad for you? |
| Fifi Chen Fredericton High School, Grade 10 | Plasma: A novel specimen type for serology testing? |
| Priya Mishra & Mia Lowe Nashwaaksis Middle School, Grade 8 | Plasma: A novel specimen type for serology testing? |
| Mason Markey Bliss Carman Middle School, Grade 8 | Splitting water: The use of a catalyst in separating hydrogen from oxygen. |
