Corner Brook campus to host science fair
3/5/2002 3:12:33 PM
By Bridget Morris
March 5, 2002 - For about a year and a half the Marketing Committee at College of the North Atlantic's Corner Brook campus had been pushing hard to host the 2002 Western Newfoundland and Labrador Regional Science Fair.
In June of 2001 their hard work paid off and on April 12 and 13 the Corner Brook campus will be turned into the home of some of the most amazing science fair projects in the province.
But the hard work didn't end there with June's announcement. Now the science fair committee meets on a regular basis to plan the event, which is now only a month away.
Wilf Riego is the Chair of the Western Newfoundland and Labrador Regional Science Fair. He says they are expecting approximately 300 students to take part and that could be partly due to the event being held in the second largest city in the province. The competing students represent 63 schools located in districts throughout Western Newfoundland and Labrador.
The cost for the organization and delivery of this event, as well as sending the top six students and two chaperones to the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2002 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is approximately $12,000. College of the North Atlantic will chip in $1,000 to help cover those costs.
Riego says hosting this event will benefit College of the North Atlantic in many ways. During the event there will be many contestants and their families attending, giving the college a chance to promote its programs and facilities and establish a relationship with the schools. Also, the college's technology students will be given a chance to display their term projects.
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Bridget Morris is a second year journalism student at College of the North Atlantic.
For more information contact:
Stephen Lee
Communications Officer
College of the North Atlantic
(709) 643-7928