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REPULSE BAY - Victor Sammurtok School in Chesterfield Inlet continued its dominance at the Kivalliq Regional Science Fair in Repulse Bay this past month when Lavinia Tanuyak took top honours for her project on birth control in Nunavut.

Tanuyak will now travel to the Canadawide Science Fair in Winnipeg with Georgina Putulik and Leo Ittiligaq of Repulse, who placed second at the fair.

The Canada-wide event will be held from May 9 to 20.

Tusarvik School's Devin Aviugana took third place and the Thomas Kudloo Award at the annual Kivalliq fair, which featured a CSI theme that had students from across the region actively involved in forensic science activities throughout the event.

The Winnipeg gathering will mark the seventh year in a row a Victor Sammurtok student has represented the Kivalliq at the national event.

The Chester school has also produced five of the past seven overall winners at the Kivalliq Regional Science Fair.

Teacher Glen Brocklebank said the science fair is still a huge event among students at Victor Sammurtok School.

He said the students keep pushing themselves to produce innovative projects every year.

"The students who really want to do well at the science fair drive themselves to succeed," said Brocklebank.

"They've gone beyond the point of doing one or two tests and then drawing conclusions.

"They're trying to follow the scientific method and come up with multiple tests and control aspects so they can say definitively what happens or occurs."

Brocklebank said the students' success in science, traditional sports and kayak building is a tremendous source of pride at the school.

He said the results produced by Chester students in those three areas are nothing short of phenomenal.

"Of the 20 high school projects our students produced this year, 11 of them were completely fresh ideas they came up with.

"These were totally new projects at our school and ones I've never seen before at the regional fair.

"The students have gone beyond what I'd hoped for seven or eight years ago with their projects.

"It's amazing how far they've come during that time, and I honestly don't see any limit to their creativity and project innovation."