When Grant Mansiere noticed that his high school, as well as others in the area, started implementing weekly programming to support students struggling with mental health issues he wanted to know what was going on.

So the Summerland Secondary School student took it upon himself to find out, and the results were on display at the regional science fair at KLO Secondary School this week.

Diving into hundreds of research papers, he mapped out a connection between altered sleep patterns, mobile phone usage and rates of depression.

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