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About the Weston Youth Innovation Award

Are you a true agent of change?

Do you see the potential for science and technology to help tackle the problems facing our planet? Have you come up with creative, innovative and unexpected solutions to some of those problems?

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Presented annually by the Ontario Science Centre, the Weston Youth Innovation Award was created to encourage and recognize young Canadian innovators. It provides students aged 14 to 18 a unique vehicle to share their ideas and get the word out to a much larger audience!

We look for individuals or groups who:

are between the ages of 14 and 18.
have used science and/or technology as the basis for developing creative and innovative ideas aimed at solving real-world problems.
put their ideas into action, and as a result, have had a positive impact either in their own community or on a broader scale.

In addition to cash and other prizes, the winner's work will be featured in a professional animation on display in the Weston Family Innovation Centre at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, visited by over 1,000,000 guests each year! It will also be posted on this website, in order to inspire other youth to think, work and collaborate in new ways.

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The Weston Youth Innovation Award is generously supported by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation and is administered by the Ontario Science Centre