Meet Wesley Goodridge, the Grade 7 Canadian student who built a device to test milk freshness before throwing it away; he won a $10,000 scholarship

Wesley Goodridge, a Grade 7 student at Aberfoyle Public School in Morriston, Ontario, won gold in the junior category at the 2026 Canada-Wide Science Fair for a project tackling an everyday source of food waste: milk that gets thrown away before consumers know whether it has actually spoiled. His project, Test Before You Toss, explores whether a scientific measurement could give people a more reliable way to assess milk freshness than simply relying on a best-before date or their own senses.

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