Meet the winners of the 2023 Science Odyssey Contest

We love this annual contest done in collaboration with our friends at NSERC

Every May, we help to promote an amazing event: Science Odyssey! Full of reading, experiments, and total curiosity about the world around us, it is the greatest Canadian celebration of all things science and engineering!

Science Odyssey 2023 happened May 6 to 21. Not only did we spend the whole two weeks posting amazing news from the world of science and tech, we also worked alongside the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to feature the Science Odyssey Contest!

As always, the 2023 entries blew us away and we are so excited to announce the year's winners. Prizes were given away in two age categories based around our three magazines—there was an OWL/Chickadee group and a Chirp group. Each group had grand prize winners, as well as runners-up.

Who wants to meet some winners?

OWL/Chickadee contest winners

The entries in this category were eligible to win one of two Grand Prizes of a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 lite, plus an Owlkids prize pack. And the six runners-up were up for a Hydraulic Cyborg Hand Building Kit, as well as an Owlkids prize pack.

Our 2 Grand Prize winners:

Harper, 9
Watch Harper's video entry below for her disappearing water trick!

Corbin, 6
Corbin is conducting some science in the sun and snow!

And here are the OWL/Chickadee runners-up:

Benjamin, 6, Saskatchewan
Ezra, 9, Alberta
Kiara, 10, Nova Scotia
Lauren, 10, Manitoba
Malachi, 11, Ontario
Theo, 9, British Columbia

Chirp contest winners

The entries in this category were eligible to win the Grand Prize of a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 lite, plus an Owlkids Prize Pack. Three runners-up were eligible for a Kids First Automobile Engineer Kit and Storybook, as well as an Owlkids prize pack.

Our Grand Prize winner:

Flynn, 3, is our Chirp Science Odyssey Grand Prize Winner! Here he is working on food colouring volcanoes.

And the Chirp runners-up:

Elias, 5, Saskatchewan
Opal, 3.5, Ontario
Reid, 5, New Brunswick

Congrats to everyone who won, and thanks to all who entered! We received hundreds of entries and it was so inspiring to see all of your projects. We hope you had fun. See you next year for Science Odyssey 2024!