Using the Power of Open Data to Learn: Paving the Path to True Equality and Equal Access in Education
The outcomes of the National High School Big Data Challenge Program — a program that strengthens students’ problem-solving and computational thinking abilities in the real world.
2020
High School Big Data Challenge™
HSBDC offers an extracurricular, interdisciplinary, experiential learning program that strengthens students’ problem-solving and computational thinking abilities and introduces them to open science.
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Program Statistics
Participants Grade
HSBDC
48.7%
participants are in grade 10 or less. Grades: 9 - 1.5%, 10 - 12.3%, 11 - 50.8%, 12 - 34.9%
90.38%
checkpoint 1 submission
86.54%
checkpoint 2 submission
Locations
HSBDC
9/10
schools are from Canada. 56% - Eastern Canada, 43% - Western Canada, 1% - Flekke, Norway
Culminating Events
Western Canada Finals
Calgary, AB, January 31, 2020
Online
An Investigation into the Socioeconomic Factors Correlated to PISA Reading Scores
Orchee Haque, Sophie Hoyer, Stephanie Huynh, Sraddha Uppili
Examining the Effects of Government Funding and Staff Compensation on Public School Completion Rates
Allan Cao, Ziyan Li, Sarah Zuo
The Correlation Between Economic Status and Quality of Education
Isaac Bahler, Samantha Chong, Nanya Anyaduba, and Nier Kamel
Investigating the Relationship between Poverty and Educational Success
Albert Choi, Jazli Muhammad, and Bobby Tang
Multivariate Analysis of United States Public Education Data to Optimize the Classroom Environment
Ammar Vora, Nishan Soni , Faiz Hanafi , and Vishwanath Wimalasena
Using Feature Importance Methods to Identify the Primary Factors Contributing to Education Index
Samuel Lu, Evan Skrukwa, and Shahryar Wasif
Winners
Winners of Canada’s National Big Data and AI Challenge
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Vera Onana
Ph.D. Candidate, Concordia University, Montreal
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Steve Scott
Director of Portfolio Development, Digitial Science Ltd.
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Lucy Xu
MEng Candidate, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
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Dr. Vanessa Williams
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto
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Mariam Taktek
MSc Candidate, University of Ottawa
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Dr. Danika Khong
Cofounder & CEO, Scismic
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Susan Ibach
Head of Amazon Future Engineer Canada, Amazon Canada
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Dr. Leslie McIntosh
CEO, Ripeta
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Special Guests
Provides expertise and fosters connections with government academia, and industry to guide initiatives.
Dr. Bonnie Schmidt
CM, FRSC, Founding President, Let’s Talk Science
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Dr. Sacha Noukhovitch
President & Founder STEM Fellowship, Professor Faculty of Science
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Isabelle LeVert-Chiasson
Canadian Commission for UNESCO
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Sebastien Goupil
Canadian Commission for UNESCO (Formerly)
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Dr. Suze Kundu
Digital Science
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eastern Canada Finals
Toronto, ON, January 31, 2020
Online
The Impact of the Student Nutrition Program on Academic Achievement in Ontario
Cristian Bogdan, Harshith Duba, Nathan Pfeffer, and Nada Salem
A Correlative Analysis of Educator Identified Factors and Global Student Assessment Scores
Natalie Jarycki
A Study of How Money Invested in Secondary Students’ Education Impact the Quality of Education in the Math and Science Fields
Raymond Ma, Rachel Dietrich, Ruby Miller, and Tenzin Dhonyoe
Educational Inequality Between Urban and Rural Areas
Joshua Lakdawala and Yash Jagirdar
The Role of Government Expenditure in Equitable Education
Jatin Mehta, Philip D’Costa, and Keval Patel
Application of Multivariate Analysis in Identifying Factors Influencing Education Equity
Andrew Mao, Binder Nie, Nicholas Dong
Economic cost and employment potentials for STEM and Non-STEM undergraduate majors in Canada
Luyuan Ge and Fengyuan Zhang
Inequity in Education: the Correlation Between Neighbourhood and School Performance in Ontario
Shuyu van Kerkwijk, Florence Ho, Hibah Hussain, and Grace Ko
Winners
Winners of Canada’s National Big Data and AI Challenge
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Vera Onana
Ph.D. Candidate, Concordia University, Montreal
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Steve Scott
Director of Portfolio Development, Digitial Science Ltd.
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Lucy Xu
MEng Candidate, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
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Dr. Vanessa Williams
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto
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Mariam Taktek
MSc Candidate, University of Ottawa
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Dr. Danika Khong
Cofounder & CEO, Scismic
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Susan Ibach
Head of Amazon Future Engineer Canada, Amazon Canada
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Dr. Leslie McIntosh
CEO, Ripeta
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Special Guests
Provides expertise and fosters connections with government academia, and industry to guide initiatives.
Dr. Bonnie Schmidt
CM, FRSC, Founding President, Let’s Talk Science
LinkedIn Icon
Dr. Sacha Noukhovitch
President & Founder STEM Fellowship, Professor Faculty of Science
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Isabelle LeVert-Chiasson
Canadian Commission for UNESCO
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Sebastien Goupil
Canadian Commission for UNESCO (Formerly)
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Dr. Suze Kundu
Digital Science
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