Academic, Creative and Engaged Research Showcase (ACERS)

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First Place Poster: Experiences with Transgender Youth Within Shelter Systems by Mandy O'Brecht

First Place Podcast: The Road not Taken: Canada’s Response to Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents) by Jeremy Vyn

First Place Video: Mutli-Sensory Stylus for Accessible Digital Interactions by Clayton Harding

Second Place Overall: Introduction to Design Thinking Through Gamification by Mya Certossi

Third Place Overall: Probing for Extracellular Vesicles in Biofluids to Assist Police Probes: A Novel Forensic Approach in Criminalistics by Margaret Empke

Early Year Researcher Award: Honour Killings In Jordan: Observing the Phenomenon Through a Human Rights Lens by Domonique Shantz

Honourable Mentions:

Loomings: A Virtual Gallery by Monica Van Ittersum

The Varicella Zoster Virus by Angel Wells

Healthy Eating and Students in Residence by Melissa Handford, Sierra Mihalco, Alexis Varela

Parentification is Trauma by Olivia Condlln-Wilby

A Deeper Look Into Maple Syrup Urine Disease by Aidan Shaw

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First Place Poster: Exploratory Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Tool to Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults by Wei Pang

First Place Podcast: Supporting the Bisexual Community at Wilfrid Laurier University by Kaylyn Heine and Gracie Markle 

First Place Video: Mitigating Toxic Behaviours in Overwatch by Celine Taillefer

Second Place Overall: SafeSpace by Julia Brookshaw, Marissa McCready, and Kelly Tarr

Third Place Overall: Children's Interpretation of Others' Faces Covered with Medical Masks by Sevval Cinar 

Early Year Researcher Award:Beast of British Columbia by Thomas Heida

Honourable Mentions:

Resources Benefiting Latinas in the Hamilton Area by Denise Fernandez

Door2Door by Samer Hak, Benjamin Hughes, Samuel Robinson, and Nafisa Tasnuva

Mind Numbing Crap: An Activity Book for Youth Experiencing Violence by Megan Barr & Lindsay Dienesch 

Current Intimate Partner Violence Screening Tools Prove Ineffective at Assessing Level of Risk Among Women and Girls with Disabilities by Arlina Clements

View the full showcase of projects online.

Posters:

• First Place: Jennifer Kirshenbaum – Improving Adult Sex Offender Rehabilitation with Strength-Based Approaches
• Second Place: Elaheh Sajadi – A Defence of Endocannibalism: Papua New Guinea
• Third Place: Jordan Thielman – Ending Homelessness for Women and Children Affected by Intimate Partner Violence

Podcasts:

• First Place: Gabriela Latta Suazo – Travelling Home
• Second Place: Shona Kinzel – A Resource for Social Workers
• Third Place: Merelle Tadros – Evaluating Moral Transgressions
• Third Place: Sonja Moller – SoulSatisfied

Videos:

• First Place: James Gautrey – Psychological Horror in Video Games
• First Place: Maggie Van Der Sluis – How Joplin’s Treemonisha Challenged Societal and Operatic Norms for Black Culture
• Second Place: Tess Kibzey – ShopSafe: Making Shopping during a Pandemic Easier
• Third Place: Marina Black – A Critical Study on David Bowie’s Authenticity and Blackstar

People’s Choice:

• Yara Khalaf – Effect of Sialic Acid on Cancer Cells

The expo showcased 43 student presenters.

• First Place: Calvin Silverthorne – The Battle of Antietam: An Examination of Three Perspectives
• Second Place: Rodina Ghisyawan and Vanita Lad – “Johnny Gets a Vaccine”: A Children’s Comic Book
• Third Place: Amy Rico – Is Western Opposition to Female Genital Cutting Unjustifiably Biased?

Watch the 2020 Showcase

 The expo showcased 44 student presenters.

• First place: Erin McHarge, Legally Bound: Non-Normative Gender and Identification
• Second place: Megan Blair, Indigenous Activism in Canada, 1969-1982
• Third place: Anitra Nickel, 1990 Crime Culture and 2018 Foreign Fighter Recruitment in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Watch the 2019 Showcase

The expo showcased 35 academic posters by 47 students.

• First Place: Lindsay Walsh, Michelle Bisaillon and Makela Figueiredo, "Windshield Survey: Downtown Galt Ontario"
• Second Place: Erin McHarge, "Transgenderism During the Rise of Nazi Germany"
• Third Place: Cassandra Voets, Avril De Silva, Alexa Kovacs, O'Shai Jeffers-Penny and Jonathan Knowles, "Therapeutic Recreation at Landsdowne Children's Centre"