Vancouver CIC Local Section
Events and Activities for 2008

• November
  • Vancouver CIC Local Section Dinner Meeting and Awards Night
    "Recent Advances in Micro Hydrogen Technology"
    by Dr. Ged McLean, Founder, President and CTO of Angstrom Power Inc.
    
    Time:  6:30 pm, Tuesday, November 18, 2008
    Place:  Diamond Alumni Centre, Simon Fraser University
    
    Buffet Dinner
    6:30 pm cash bar, dinner at 7:00, lecture 8:30
    coffee and dessert following lecture
    
    CIC members $20
    Student/associate members $15
    Non-members $30
    
    Call Danny Leznoff (778-782-4887) or e-mail to dleznoff@sfu.ca by Friday Nov. 14th to reserve your place for dinner (registration is required to attend the dinner).
    Those wishing to attend the lecture only (free) should arrive by 8:15 pm.

   

• October
  • National Chemistry Week
    The Vancouver CIC Local Section was again pleased to participate in the celebration of National Chemistry Week for 2008.  This was the 14th year that Vancouver schools have completed in the Crystal Growing Competition.  There was a very good response this year with 12 schools supplying 36 different crystals…the best level of participation to date.  The judging took place at Science World on Saturday, October 25th, 2008.  
     
    Three free children/youth passes to Science World were given to each school that submitted crystals for the competition courtesy of the Vancouver Local Section.  The three judges were Gerry Reimer, MCIC, Zuo-Guang Ye, MCIC and, new this year, Cameron Forde, MCIC. They used the same criteria for judging that is used for the national awards.
     
    The following results were obtained after a very careful examination and consideration of each crystal submitted:
     
    Best overall crystal:  

    First Place: student:  Grace Chan     teacher:  Katherine Poon school:   Crofton House

    Second Place: student:  Andrew Park               Charles Cao teacher:  Ying Chu Lau school:   Killarney Secondary School

    Third Place: student:  Mona Nooh               Amina Osman               Iqra Javed teacher:  Debbie Darling school:   Tamanawis Secondary School

    
     
    Best quality crystal;
    
     

    First Place: student:  Jeff Wong               Jeremy Mak               Douglas Kao teacher:  Andrew Tovey school:   Steveston-London Secondary

    Second Place: student:  Kevin Lee              Jamin Liu teacher:  Elaine Wong school:   Fraser Heights Secondary

    Third Place: student:  Ed Choi               Prab Basraon teacher:  Keirstan McCaw school:   Southridge School

     
    T-shirts, pocket periodic tables and certificates are given to each of these winners to acknowledge their excellence.  The best crystals in each category are being sent for consideration at the national level.
     
    The Simon Fraser University professors again performed two chemistry shows entitled 'The Three Prof's Most Excellent Chemistry Adventures' in the Science World demonstration theatre.  These shows are always enjoyed by a large audience of young people, students and their families.  The crowd was delighted and awed by the prof's enthusiastic and well-paced performances.
     
    As always, Danny Leznoff, MCIC, kept everything organized and the event was the smoothest and most successful yet.  And thank you to Andrew Tovey for helping to coordinate these events.

     

• April
  • Canada-wide Science Fair – regional judging

Watch for other events to be listed here as they become available.