46th annual Central Interior Science Exhibition held at UNBC
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PRINCE GEORGE – UNBC was full of activity on Saturday afternoon, as the Bentley Centre was packed with students demonstrating a wide variety of research topics for the 46th annual Central Interior Science Exhibition.
School District 91, 57, and 28 all come together for the exhibit, and this year featured many different topics that students researched.
“We have everything from kids trying to build LED lights — they’re using magnetic induction to run LED lights — to people studying the inner cores of atoms, to how to do the best composting. They’re all over the place, and it’s amazing what we get from from young scientists these days,” said Todd Whitcombe, the Chair of the Central Interior Science Exhibition.
Beyond being a fun and engaging way for students to engage with the scientific process, Whitcombe added this exhibition also serves as a springboard to compete in the Canada Wide Science Fair in Ottawa later this year, as the judges will choose five students to compete at the national level. Beyond being both the chair and a judge in the Central Interior Science Exhibition, Whitcombe is also a professor at UNBC, and he says science education has improved dramatically over the years.
