A Thunder Bay student is being recognized for her look at how the pandemic has impacted our mental health.
Mehar Mago is a Grade 10 student at Superior Collegiate and Vocational Institute, and will be submitting her project to the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa this upcoming week.
She says it’s an honour to get the Ted Rogers Innovation Award for her science project, which recognizes science, technology, engineering and mechanical (STEM) projects that have commercial potential.
“I did the project because it was something I was genuinely passionate about, and I was curious about it. It feels really good to have your work recognized because it was a lot of work,” she says.
Mago created a program to analyze Tweets from Thunder Bay during the early months of the pandemic to see how it was affecting our mental health.
“I was able to determine that Thunder Bay had a decrease of around 92 positive Tweets per month, meaning that we did feel a negative impact due to the pandemic,” she explains.
Mago is one of 61 high school students from across Canada who were recognized for completing what organizers call an “outstanding” STEM project.
