{"id":8280,"date":"2023-04-11T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:22:54","slug":"2023-james-draper-memorial-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/2023-james-draper-memorial-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 James Draper Memorial Award Winner\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/trophy-picture-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/trophy-picture-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/trophy-picture-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/trophy-picture-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/trophy-picture-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/trophy-picture.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/lawyers\/sarah-j-draper\/\">Sarah J. Draper<\/a> and her family are proud supporters of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nrsef.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara Regional Science and Engineering Fair<\/a> . The NRSEF is dedicated to the encouragement of science and engineering in students from Grades 5 through 12 within the Niagara Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2007, the Draper Family has presented a special award, the James Draper Memorial Award, to students who \u201cdemonstrate the most ingenious use of available materials while conducting scientific research experiments, or in the creation of an innovative product\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award is in memory of Sarah\u2019s father Jim, who won the NRSEF and the Canada-Wide Science Fair in the Grade 7\/8 category in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s winner of the James Draper Memorial Award is Alexander Lebedev of Notre Dame Catholic Elementary School in Niagara Falls for his project \u201cVariations and Levels of Subatomic Particles in Environmental Background Radiation\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations Alexander!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on how you can enter the NRSEF, get involved in judging, or donate to help Team Niagara participate in the Canada Wide fair, please <a href=\"http:\/\/nrsef.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/project-display-picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/project-display-picture.jpg 960w, https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/project-display-picture-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/project-display-picture-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah J. Draper and her family are proud supporters of the Niagara Regional Science and Engineering Fair . The NRSEF is dedicated to the encouragement of science and engineering in students from Grades 5 through 12 within the Niagara Region. Since 2007, the Draper Family has presented a special award, the James Draper Memorial Award, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[73,178,177,181,183,179,180,182],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niagaralaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}