Science Fair
Every year the entire Incentive program does a science fair. Some students go on to participate at the UBC regional competition in April. In the past, students have won medals at the UBC competition and gone on to participate at the National and even the world level. Participation in science fair is an excellent item to have on your resume and can help in applications for scholarships!
Topics have included investigations of:
• antibiotics versus herbal remedies
• the earth's magnetic field
• life in Richmond's ditches
and many more…
There is an exhibit night every year for parents to view the science fairs.
Every year the entire Incentive program does a science fair. Some students go on to participate at the UBC regional competition in April. In the past, students have won medals at the UBC competition and gone on to participate at the National and even the world level. Participation in science fair is an excellent item to have on your resume and can help in applications for scholarships!
Topics have included investigations of:
• antibiotics versus herbal remedies
• the earth's magnetic field
• life in Richmond's ditches
and many more…
There is an exhibit night every year for parents to view the science fairs.
Recent Gold Medal Winner!
Yichen Zhang (Incentive Grade 10) won a gold medal at the UBC Regional Science Fair April 2011, and went on to win a silver medal at the Canadian National Science Fair in Toronto in May 2011 for his project: Supergrass II: The Cytotoxicity of Lemongrass Essential Oils on Colorectal Cancer Cells
Yichen Zhang (Incentive Grade 10) won a gold medal at the UBC Regional Science Fair April 2011, and went on to win a silver medal at the Canadian National Science Fair in Toronto in May 2011 for his project: Supergrass II: The Cytotoxicity of Lemongrass Essential Oils on Colorectal Cancer Cells
Testimonial from Gareth Hopkins
(Incentive 2003, University of Northern British Columbia 2009):
...to think it all started in that Incentive Science fair in the ditches of Richmond.
"It really all did begin at Incentive with you, science fairs, and your inspiration. That is indeed why in the Acknowledgements section of this paper you will find that the last sentence is: "GRH extends gratitude to M. Elliott for inspiration". That would be Martin Elliott...the man who inspired me to become a scientist."
Gareth's research at UNBC won first prize in the "Rising Stars of Research National Undergraduate Research Poster Competition," held at UBC. Almost 500 students applied for participation, but only 90 students – including five from UNBC – were invited to compete.
Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2009), 11, 397–403 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2009.00444.x
Temptations of weevil: feeding and ovipositional behaviour
of Hylobius warreni Wood on host and nonhost bark
in laboratory bioassays
Gareth R. Hopkins, Matthew D. Klingenberg and Brian H. Aukema∗
(Incentive 2003, University of Northern British Columbia 2009):
...to think it all started in that Incentive Science fair in the ditches of Richmond.
"It really all did begin at Incentive with you, science fairs, and your inspiration. That is indeed why in the Acknowledgements section of this paper you will find that the last sentence is: "GRH extends gratitude to M. Elliott for inspiration". That would be Martin Elliott...the man who inspired me to become a scientist."
Gareth's research at UNBC won first prize in the "Rising Stars of Research National Undergraduate Research Poster Competition," held at UBC. Almost 500 students applied for participation, but only 90 students – including five from UNBC – were invited to compete.
Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2009), 11, 397–403 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2009.00444.x
Temptations of weevil: feeding and ovipositional behaviour
of Hylobius warreni Wood on host and nonhost bark
in laboratory bioassays
Gareth R. Hopkins, Matthew D. Klingenberg and Brian H. Aukema∗