Special Awards are donated by organizations and groups to recognize deserving projects that deal with topics of interest to the donor. At the donors' and their judges' discretion, details of these awards may change.

The list below includes all awards which we expect to be available in 2010. Awards which have been confirmed will be marked like so:

City of Hamilton Mayor's Award

Prize: 1st: $500, 2nd: $300, 3rd: $200
Criteria: Deserving projects by Hamilton students in the Biotechnology division.

Acquired Brain Injury Awards

Prize: 1st: $75, 2nd: $25
Criteria: Two projects relating to the brain, especially acquired brain injuries, their causes or therapies.

Artistically Inspired Display Award

Prize: Two awards of $50 each
Criteria: For the most artistically inspired display.

Bell Computer and Communications Awards

Prize: 1st: $150; 2nd: $100.
Criteria: Projects regarding communication between people, between machines, or between people and machines; any level.

Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (Hamilton Branch) Award

Prize: 1st: $100, 2nd:$100.
Criteria: Cash and certificate awards for outstanding projects relating to Mining and Metallurgy and petroleum regardless of level

Canadian Nuclear Society (Sheridan Park Branch) Awards

Prize:Four awards in total, two at the intermediate or senior levels for $125 each, two at the junior level for $75 each.
Criteria: For projects relating to nuclear science and engineering, energy research or climate sciences

Cancer Assistance Programme Awards

Prize: Three cash prizes.
Criteria: For outstanding projects on topics related to cancer prevention.

Chemical Institute of Canada, Hamilton Section Awards

Prize: Three cash awards of $100 each.
Criteria: For deserving projects relating to chemistry and chemical engineering.

Conservation Halton Environmental Sciences

Prize: $100 each to two projects.
Criteria: Best and Second best Environmental Projects done by Halton students.

Hamilton Association da Vinci Award

Prize: $300, and an honourary membership in the Association and an invitation to attend meetings.
Criteria: The best candidate who combines personal initiative with the scientific method.

Dr. Colin J.L. Lock Memorial Chemistry Award

Prize: $100
Criteria: The project demonstrating the best application of chemistry.

Dr. M. Doyle Award

Prize: Total value of $250 prize includes: a cash award, a plaque, and a trophy kept at the winner's school for a year.
Criteria: For the best biology project

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Awards

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Commercial Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of commercial and business planning tools in developing a potentially new or improved commercial product.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Environment Award
Prize: $50
Criteria:Project that best displays the use of physics, chemistry or engineering to explore or solve a technical problem associated with environmental issues.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Hot Mill Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of creative principles and design to solve a manufacturing or process problem.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Medical Department Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of scientific principles in exploring or solving a problem related to human health issues.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Product Research & Automotive Applications Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project that best displays the innovative application of materials, products, processes or design principles.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Product Development Business Process Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of Product Development principles and design in developing a new consumer product with commercial potential.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Research and Development Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project that displays the best use of investigative research and scientific principles to explore or solve a technical problem.

ArcelorMittalDofasco Steelmaking Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project that best displays the use of Engineering and Materials Science principles to solve a technical problem.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Engineering and Maintenance Technology Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project best displaying the use of Engineering and Maintenance Technology principles and design to solve a technical problem.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Information Systems Department Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project best displaying the use of Information Systems principles and design to solve a technical problem.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Human Resources Training and Development Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Deserving project that best displays the use of teaching and training techniques in explaining or exploring a technical problem.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chemical Testing Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Deserving project that best displays the use of chemical testing and/or chemical principles to solve a technical problem.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco Quality Systems Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Deserving project that best displays the use of Quality Systems principles and design to solve a technical problem.

The Electrical Construction Association of Hamilton Award

Prize: $250
Criteria: A project displaying the best and safest use of electricity in a creative manner.

Gowlings Innovation Award

Prize: $250
Criteria: The award will be given in any category for a project that exploits multiple areas of intellectual property protection, namely trademarks, patents, industrial designs and copyright. The prize includes a complimentary consultation with a patent or trade-mark agent at the Gowlings Hamilton office.

The James A. Winger Award sponsored by Hamilton Amateur Astronomers

Prize: Astronomy book plus $100 cash award
Criteria: Best project in demonstrating an understanding of a topic related to astronomy or physics.

Hamilton Wentworth Occasional Teachers Local Awards

Environmental and Education Award
Prize: $50 and Certificate
Criteria: Junior project which most effectively educates others about an environmental issue.

Healthy Lifestyles Award
Prize: $50 and Certificate
Criteria: Junior project which most effectively educates others regarding the role of nutrition and/or exercise in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Presentation and Aesthetics Award
Prize: $50 and Certificate
Criteria: Junior project which demonstrates a high level of visual appeal, creativity, and overall quality of presentation.

Hillfield Strathallan College Awards of Excellence

Design and Engineering

Prize: One cash award of $100
Criteria: Senior project that best displays innovation in identifying an ergonomic design problem

Environmental Sciences

Prize: One cash award of $100
Criteria: Junior or Intermediate project that best displays innovation in identifying an environmental problem

Health Sciences

Prize: One cash award of $100
Criteria: Intermediate project that best displays excellence in sampling design in a health science project

The IEEE Hamilton Section Awards

Prize: Two awards of $100 each
Criteria: Two projects which show the best use of Electronics in a Science or Engineering project, any level.

The Investigative Science Award

Prize: Two cash awards; 1st $200, 2nd $100
Criteria: Two projects showing the best application of creative problem solving, any project, any level.

Hamilton Clean & Green Award

Prize: $500
Criteria: The entry that best addresses the effect on the environment of littering, dumping, and defacing property and/or processes and systems to effectively remediate, contain and prevent litter and graffiti.

McMaster University, Faculties of Science and Engineering Tuition Awards

Prize: (Five) $500 tuition entry awards, redeemable upon successful admission to either of the Faculties of Science or Engineering.
Criteria: Excellent science or engineering research.

McMaster Engineering Society Award

Prize: $250
Criteria : Best junior engineering project.

The Venture Science and Engineering Innovation Award, McMaster University

Prize: Free Registration to Venture Engineering Science Camp, Aug 3-6, 2010 and a certificate to the winning project
Criteria: Is presented to one Junior project that demonstrates creativity and originality.

Mechanical Contractors Association of Hamilton Award

Prize: $250
Criteria: Best engineering project, intermediate or senior level.

Mohawk College School of Engineering Technology Awards

Building & Construction Sciences Awards
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project related to the field of civil engineering

Transportation Engineering Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project related to planning, design, operation of any transportation mode or facility

Building Sciences Award
Prize: $50
Criteria: Project related to building sciences, building materials, or energy conservation in structures

Chemical and Environmental Engineering Technology Awards

Prize: $100
Criteria: A deserving intermediate or senior project related to applied chemistry

Prize: $50
Criteria: A deserving junior project in environmental studies

Computer Science & Information Technology- Computer Excellence Award
Prize: $50 cash award
Criteria: A project which demonstrates a thorough understanding of computer application and design in today's world.

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology Award
Prize: $100
Criteria: Outstanding project related to industrial engineering or manufacturing.

Electrotechnology Engineering Awards

Prize: Two $50 cash awards
Criteria: One award for $50 to a deserving junior project in engineering. Second award for $50 to a deserving project in engineering studies.

Mathematics Awards

Prize: Two (2) $75 cash awards
Criteria: Deserving projects in the mathematics division, or any project from any division demonstrating a thorough understanding of statistics, any level.

National Science & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Awards

Prize: $250 to each of two projects.
Criteria: Deserving projects demonstrating innovative and creative research by the student.

Nelson Steel Awards

Prize: Two prizes of $100 in each of the following fields: steel, environmental or chemistry
Criteria: $100 cash award for outstanding projects related to one of the following fields: steel, environmental and chemistry. Preference given to junior levels

Dr. Nicola Simmons Award in Cognition Studies

Prize: One prize of $100
Criteria: An exemplary project in cognition studies.

Primary Fluid Systems Awards

Junior or Intermediate Engineering Awards
Two Prizes each of: $250, $150, $100
Criteria: Deserving projects in Junior or Intermediate Engineering

Junior or Intermediate Physical Sciences Awards
Two Prizes each of: $125, $75, $50
Criteria: Deserving projects in Junior or Intermediate Physical Sciences

Junior or Intermediate Earth & Environmental Sciences Awards
Two Prizes each of: $125, $75, $50
Criteria: Deserving projects in Junior or Intermediate Earth & Environment

Professional Engineers Ontario (Hamilton-Burlington Chapter) Awards

Prize: 1st: $250, 2nd: $150, 3rd: $100
Criteria: To the top three most outstanding Engineering Project Exhibitors at any level.

Professional Engineers Ontario (Oakville Chapter) Engineering Award

Prize: Two awards of $100 each
Criteria: To two deserving engineering projects.

Procor Engineering Awards

Prize: Junior $50; Intermediate $100; Senior $150
Criteria: Excellent engineering projects.

Safety Management Systems Software Award

Prize: $100 and a plaque
Criteria: A project that incorporates the most innovative integration of programming code to analyze data or to operate a piece of equipment.

Zonta Club of Hamilton Awards

Prize: $300 shared by a limited number of projects
Criteria: Outstanding projects by females, any category, any level.

University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship Award

Prize: $1000 admission scholarship (or two $500 scholarships for a pair project) toward tuition fees upon being accepted into and registration in an undergraduate program in the Faculties of Engineering, Science or Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa.
Criteria: The most deserving Senior project.

Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories Award

Prize: One cash Award of $100, to be sent after the fair
Criteria: Outstanding project at any level in disciplines such as biochemistry, chemistry, microbiology, toxicology, and forensic science, and incorporating analytical laboratory techniques or physical methods of analysis, for example a spectrometer or chromatograph.

John W. Howard Materials Research Award

Prize: $100
Criteria: A project demonstrating innovation in engineering materials, especially concrete.

Hydro One Energy Ambassador Award

Prize: One Prize of $100, to be sent after the fair.
Criteria: For a project at any level, with outstanding scientific quality and whose primary focus is the distribution, supply, management, use or conservation of electrical energy (or alternatively,other forms of energy if suitable projects relating to electrical energy are not available)

University of Ontario Institute of Technology Innovation Award

Prize: Two prizes of $100 each, to be sent after the fair
Criteria: Outstanding projects demonstrating the most innocative development, adaptation, or use of technology in any subject area. One award at the junior level; one award at any level.

Ontario Ministry of the Environment Award

Prize: One prize of $100, to be sent after the fair
Criteria: Outstanding junior project in any category which demonstrates a creative approach to an environmental problem that could lead to cleaner air, land or water.

Dr. Leonard Harris Award in Health Sciences or Environment

Prize: Two prizes of $100
Criteria: Awarded to the most interesting projects which involve an experiment relating to human biology, health or disease.

Horizon Utilities Corporation Award

Prize: Three awards of $300 each
Criteria: Project that best demonstrates the production of electrical energy from "green sources", or new, viable approaches to using electrical energy more efficiently.

Conservation Halton Environmental Sciences Award

Prize: Two cash prizes of $100 each
Criteria: Awarded to the top two Environmental Research, Protection, Conservation, restoration or awareness Projects done by a Halton Student.

Nippissing University Regional Science Fair Award

Prize: One scholarship award of $1000
Criteria: To a senior project, any category to be paid out upon registration at Nipissing University

Royal Botanical Gardens Award

Prize: $100 gift certificate from RBG shop plus 1 year family membership
Criteria: Best project in botanical or environmental sciences

EnviroExpo Special Award sponsored by VIA Rail Canada

Prize: One Award of $100
Criteria: An outstanding project that combines artistic skill and science to address a pressing environmental issue. In addition to traditional science content, the project must incorporate an artistic discipline and fall into one of the seven areas of environmental focus: Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development, Resource Management,Environmental Influences on Health, Culture Society, and the Environment, the Greening of Products and Services or Biodiversity. The EnviroExpo Special Award is open to any level

Dr. Odette Tunks Award

Prize: Two awards of $100 each
Criteria: Two awards to the most creative or innovative projects, any level

D.E.N.M. Mining & Mineral Processing Awards

Prize: Three awards of 1st prize $100, 2nd prize $75, and 3rd prize $50
Criteria: Outstanding engineering physical sciences or environmental sciences projects (any level) with a preference to projects relating to Mining and Mineral Processing.

Weirdest Project Award

Prize: UFO Detector Device and Nikola Tesla Library (book & DVD)
Criteria: The unusual, strangest, or subject matter that goes beyond the reality of scientific explanation

Edward H. Oldham Patent Award

Prize: One (1) gift-in-kind US provisional patent application. Two runners up will also be chosen
Criteria: Assistance in preparation of a US Provisional Patent. The winner will be the "best" patentable entry at BASEF.

SPIE Optics & Photonics Science Fair Award

Prize: Three cash awards(in US funds) $250 (1st Prize), $150 (2nd Prize), $100 (3rd Prize) and level
Criteria: For best project in optics or photonics where student(s) apply optics or photonics technology, techniques or principles to his/her project. (any level)

Disclaimer: In order to receive your monetary award, please contact SPIE. BASEF wil not be responsible for awarding your monetary prize.

American Society for Quality (ASQ) - Hamilton Section Award

Prize: One cash award of $100
Criteria: Best project demonstrating the use of quality tools and principles

Laurentian Chapter of SETAC Award

Prize: One cash award of $200
Criteria: Best project and presentation on a topic related to Environmental toxicology, chemistry, pollution, contamination, remediation or environmental protection.

Intel Excellence Awards for Regional Science Fairs affiliated with the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair

Prize: One prizes of $200 (U.S.) (to be sent after the fair.)
Criteria: The top winner of Computer Science category in Intermediate or Senior level.

International Science & Engineering Affiliated Fair Awards for Regional Science Fairs affiliated with the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair

Prize: Certificates
Criteria: Deserving intermediate and senior projects related to topics of interest to the following organizations:

American Meteorological Society: For an Intermediate or Senior project Best ability and creativity in an atmospheric science exhibit.

American Psychological Assoc.: outstanding research in psychology under the category of behavioural and social sciences.

ASM Materials: outstanding exhibit in materials science.

Association for Women Geoscientists: Project by female student(s) demonstrating high standards of innovativeness and scientific excellence in the geosciences.

Herbert Hoover Young Engineer Award: Outstanding Engineering Project.

International Society for Optical Engineering: Best project in the area of Optical Science or Engineering.

MU Alpha Theta: Intermediate or Senior project demonstrating the most challenging, original, thorough and creative investigation or problem involving mathematics.

Ricoh Sustainable Development Award: Most outstanding project, selected among all the general award categories, whose principles and technical innovations offer the greatest potential for increasing our ability to grow environmentally friendly and socially responsible businesses.

Society for In Vitro Biology: grade 11 project exhibiting in the areas of plant or animal in vitro biology or tissue culture

Yale Science & Engineering Association: Most outstanding grade 11 student exhibiting in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry.

Doris Casey Disability Solutions Award

Prize: $100
Criteria: Most innovative and creative technical solution focused on assisting individuals to overcome or compensate for physical or cognitive disabilities.

Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research Internship Award

Prize: One paid summer Internship of 6 weeks, as a research assistant in a laboratory at the M.G. DeGroote IIDR Institute at McMaster University (value $2,150.)
Criteria: Best senior student project in infectious disease, drug discovery or human health.

Wilderness or Disaster Medicine Award

Prize: $100
Criteria: Project which displays the most innovative and creative technical medical assistance for individuals in a setting where medical treatment is not readily available.

Earth Day Hamilton Award

Prize: $50
Criteria: Project which best displays creative solutions to local and global environmental challenges.

Dillon Consulting Science and Engineering Award

Prize: $150
Criteria: Project in any division showing excellence in science or engineering.