Category: Innovative Youth
Recognizes a creative young person (up to the age of 26) who has taken the initiative to develop innovation, teamwork and social responsibility.
Winner: SARAH GULLASON
Sarah has been working for over a year studying ways to reduce water consumption in plants and still sustain healthy growth. She is working on recycling diapers to add to the moisture content of the soil.
Category: Environmental Innovation
Recognizes committed individuals or organizations for creating solutions to protect the environment and promote ecological sustainability.
Winners: PEACE VALLEY OSB and THE CANFOR SAWMILL IN FORT ST JOHN
Peace Valley OSB operates a wood energy system that includes heat transfer (thermal oil systems) that produce all the heat needed for the plant and administration buildings, as well as combustion gas necessary for the wood drying process. The Canfor sawmill in Fort St. John has recently installed a new bark fired thermal oil energy system. This network removes particulate and organic compounds from the air stream to minimize air emissions.
Category: Innovation at Work
Recognizes the company, individual or organization that has implemented an innovative process or product created within the workplace that promotes efficiencies or introduces new processes within the operation.
Winners: DISTRICT OF TAYLOR and SPECTRA ENERGY
A major partnership between Spectra Energy and the District of Taylor re-uses secondary effluent from Spectra Energy operations for irrigation water at the District's Lone Wolf Golf Club. At 100% efficiency, this water line allows the golf course to utilize upwards of 500,000 gallons of secondary effluent per day for irrigation.
Category: Innovation in Education
Recognizes a non-profit organization that is committed to excellence in the development, promotion and use of technologies, practices and policies that foster enhanced access to learning for all students in all contexts.
Winner: THE NORTHERN BC DISTANCE EDUCATION SCHOOL
The Northern BC Distance Education School's staff and administration is focused on making each student’s learning experience unique to their needs and goals with a focus on learning any place, any pace and any time. In order to reach this goal in maximizing student potential they use a wide variety of technologies.
Category: Technology Entrepreneur
Recognizes an organization or an individual that has commercialized new technology.
Winner: EAGLE VISION VIDEO PRODUCTIONS LTD.
Eagle Vision Video Productions Ltd. has successfully developed and produced a stand-alone remote surveillance system. This new technology is the first of its kind in northern BC and Canada and its major use is surveillance in remote locations via a cellular network.
Category: Innovation in Industry
Recognizes the company or enterprise that has increased its production through the use of innovative processes, systems, or procedures.
Winner: LAKEVIEW CREDIT UNION
Over the past year Lake View Credit Union IT Department has implemented many new technologies within the organization to support sustainability and increase efficiency. Lake View Credit Union IT has implemented server virtualization, SAN mirroring technology as well as PC security control systems which has enabled Lake View IT to completely secure and maintain equipment remotely in two branches from a central location.
Category: Technology Leadership Award
Awarded to an individual who has demonstrated leadership and mentorship in developing, applying and promoting science or technology; and who actively contributes to their community.
Winners: RICH MCCREA and LISA BUCKLEY
Rich McCrea and Lisa Buckley are the two vertebrate paleontologists at the Peace Region Paleontology Centre in Tumbler Ridge. They are using digitization and digital photogrammetry equipment in their work to produce 3-D images of bones and tracks for use within their own lab and for use by researchers around the world who can access this material via the internet.