Youngsters help student researchers make the grade

By Alexis Dobranowski A group of enthusiastic 5th graders took some time out of their summer vacations this week to visit Sunnybrook for a special contest. As part of the Sunnybrook Research Institute 407 ETR Summer Student Research Day, Sunnybrook’s summer students were invited to submit a simple summary of their work in a way the public – even kids – would understand. More than 70 projects were submitted. Five finalists competed for a cash prize. Fifteen youngsters took part in judging the finalists, who presented complicated research about using virtual reality to help detect Alzheimer’s disease, Ontario’s platelet transfusion rates, teaching spinal surgery, using focused ultrasound to get drugs into the spinal cord, and how high temperatures might affect doctor’s performance — all using simple language. “My study

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