Volume Vill No. 14 May 9, 1986

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informer

Science students come to Cap Ceremony planned for 24th

On Tuesday, May 13, approximately 75 This year's graduation ceremony will be
outstanding high school science students taking place on Saturday, May 24 and will
will be on campus to participate in the | happen, weather permitting, on the college

Natural Sciences Division's sixth annual Green (the north campus lawn). Graduation
Science Enrichment Workshop. Four students will take place in two segments. First,
from each of the high schools in North and various departments are holding their own

West Vancouver, Squamish, Pemberton, events at various times and assorted
Sechelt, East Vancouver and North Burnaby locations (see Graduation brochure for
will be taking part in workshops on | details list) and then,commencing at 2 pm,
biology, chemistry, geology, math/computing everyone will assemble for the central
science and physics taught by college ceremony and garden party on the green.
instructors. Nancy Ricker, Chair of the The Graduation committee promises that
Natural Sciences Division, said:"The speechifying will be kept to an absolute
purpose of the workshop is to provide an minimum (they are allowing half an hour
opportunity for highly motivated science for the ceremony), and then people can
and mathematics/computing science students ‘relax and sample the refreshments.

to become acquainted with a few
interesting techniques in the different
disciplines. The Natural Science Division
is also pleased that the students will
become acquainted with our modern
laboratory facilities."

Among the subjects that will be covered in
the workshop are: experimental animal
behaviour with live creatures, the process
and consequences of turbidity currents,

an experiment on the chelating properties
of aspirin, interference of waves, and
graphical and analytical problems of
computing in three dimensional space.

BBQ on Tuesday

Beaver Foods will be putting on a special
barbeque lunch outside the South Cafeteria
on Tuesday May 13. The event is organized
primarily for the Science Enrichment
Workshop students, but is open to everyone
on campus.

Last chance

There are still spaces available in the
Instructional Skills workshop for faculty
which runs May 12-14. For information on
registration call Lee Knight, 392. The

workshop will be repeated August 25 - 27. = Capilano college