12 ~ North Shore News - Friday. March 10, 2000

= BRIGHT LIGHTS ———

Weights on Wheels was Tracy Bird’s (Grade 7,
Ross Road) science project: determining if a
rotating wheel's deceleration is effected by A)
the wheel mass and 8) the distribution of wheel
mass.

Vanessa Iverson explored hurricanes
and wished to know “How do they cre-
ate a vortex?" This fifth-grader from
Maplewood used two pop bottles and
dowel stir sticks for her explanation.

Richard Chow wanted to know
“Which solid has the highest densi-
ty?” In his tests at Ross Road ele-
mentary school he discovered that
copper has the highest density and
plastic has the lowest.

Ten-year-old
Emily Pearce
wanted to find
out the reac-
tion of carbon
doxide gas
using difterent
types of vine-
gar with her
project
“Bubble
Bubbie Toil &
Trouble.”

Fiona McGlynn holds a Brownie Flashmite
20 and Moira Jennings has their home-
made pinhole camera. These Dorothy
Lynas Grade 7 girls studied carneras and
how they work.

How much vitamin C is in different citrus fruits?
Oranges have the most and grapefruit have the
least according to William Hall of Ross Read ele-
mentary school. The Grade 7 student did the same

chemical procedure on six different fruits.

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THE 10th annual North Vancouver Invitational Science Fair
was held at Lynn Valley Centre last Saturday with 135 partic:
ipants. Projects were set up on tables with students explaining
their work using the methodology of science -— questions to
hypothesis to conclusion, Al of the work was outstanding and
displaved great enthusiasms and creativity. Cp io five Grade 7
students from each school will be recommended to represent
North Vancouver District at the upcoming Lower Maisland
Regional Science Fair at CBC on Apal 6, 7 and 8. Best of lick

to all!

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Boundary School seventh-graders Ben Frisby
and Peter Hubbert asked “Will solar cars
replace gas cars?” They used the fight from this
lava lamp to power a solar panel as part of their
display.

Pat Heal (left), chainwoman of School District
#44, Cathy Molinski (centre). district principal! for
program services and Cove Cliff seventh-grade
teacher Denise LaPrairie hold up medallions
which were awarded to each participant.

French stu-
dent Aja
Etemans of
Sherwood
Park
Elementary
found oyt
ihat CO¢ is
a good fire
extinguish-
er. This
Grade 5

Grade 6 student Jeff Gjeria of
Maplewood Elementary wanted to
know “Can U Change Piant
Pigment?” He watered piants with
blue cye and discovered that they
fight the foreign substance like a
disease.

Mulgrave seventh-grade stu-
dent Michelle Mange is a
competitive swimmer and did
her project on Exercise and
your Heart. She studied the
differences between a group
of boys and girls along with
an active lifestyle versus a
sedentary one.

Richard Boden's mode! house, sound.

“Performance under Pressure,” a soccer ball
kicking apparatus built by Grade 8 Mulgrave
student Johnathan Langley. “Does air pres-
sure in a soccer ball determine its distance |*?
kicked?" His discovery was that less air ¢
enables the ball to move a greater distance.

meter and tape recorder were used to deter-
mine “Which insulator insulated sound
hest?” He found out that acoustic tile is most
effective but doesn’t have any in his house
where he practises playing saxophone.

student said
science is
“cool.” “Our
whole life
relies on it.”

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