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Student's award-winning sleep study far from yawneregory (Grades 7 and 8) of this However, getting himself to sleepOAKVILLE BEAVER STAFFyears national competition, for 11 hours was a bit of a chal-which took place in Toronto in lenge.Oakvilles Gaven Mann brought May. The award includes $1,300 If I happened to wake up ear-home a bronze medal from this in cash and scholarships.lier than that from too muchyears Canada-Wide Science Fair It was very exciting, Mann sleep, I would rest the followingfor his study of students sleeping said of the award. When my amount of time because resting ishabits and its effects on academic name was called, I was very happy very similar to sleeping, he said.performance.and I was very surprised. I did You regenerate your body, just aThe results may surprise you.well in judging, but it was very little slower.It was surprising to me too, surprising to me. And the experi-Luckily, it only happened oncethe Grade 8 W. H. Morden Public ence at Canada-Wide was very that he had to stay in bed for aSchool student said.good. It was a social event and I long period while he was awake.The summary of my results is made a lot of friends.Mann also found that sleepingthat seven to nine hours of sleep The youth did testing on him-patterns are V-shaped for peopleis ideal and enhances the aca-self and about 45 other students, as they age, with infants sleepingdemic performance and anything aged 12 to 15. Many of the stu-for long periods of time. As a per-outside that range will cause a dents were fellow schoolmates, as son ages, he or she sleeps less anddecrease in academic perfor-well as the older students from a less. Then, when a person reachesmance, meaning that too much nearby high school.a seniors age, he or she will sleepsleep is the same as too little He did three types of testing: more again.sleep.an attention test, a visual and Its pretty much a V shape,The young scientist said the speed test, and an auditory and where the adult is at the centrereason for this is that too much memory test.point and it verges off to an infantsleep will make a person lethargic I asked the students what and senior on the end points of and lazy, a similar symptom of time they slept and what time the V, he said.not having enough sleep. This is they woke up the previous night Mann said he hopes to go intoalso evident in two sleeping disor-and I did this testing for a week, medicine in the future.ders: insomnia (sleeping too lit-he said.To reach the Canada-Widetle) and hypersomnia (sleep too For his personal testing, he did competition, Mann had to earnERIC RIEHL / OAKVILLE BEAVER much).the tests for three weeks, sleeping his place by having a strong finishAWARD WINNER:Grade 8 Morden student Gaven Mann with his sleep Mann was one of 40 bronze seven different lengths of time at the Bay Area Science andstudy exhibit that earned him a bronze medal in the junior category (Grade 7-8) medal winners in the junior cat-ranging from five to 11 hours. 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