By Haley Gagnaux for the North Delta Reporter
Delview Secondary hosted its annual exhibition of science, history and infotech projects on June 19 in the school cafeteria.
From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., grade 8 science students demonstrated scientific concepts with hands-on, interactive displays.
Grade 12 history and infotech students also showed off the research they did on final projects, and demonstrated their tech creations.
One grade 8 science exhibit was a project on lake overturns by Megan Gagnaux, Maneet Bhullar and Simranjit Mandal.
“Lake overturns are a natural disaster that happens when carbon dioxide from the volcano system beneath the lake seeps into the water,” Gagnaux explained.
“The water pressure then holds down the carbon dioxide, and sometimes when there is too much carbon dioxide, the lake explodes.”
Bhullar said the group chose their topic because they were interested in natural disasters and Mandal said she learned about time management through the project.
“The deadline is closer than when you think it is,” Mandal said.
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Science and infotech teacher Jonathan Kung said many of the students also learned from adult mentors while working on their projects.
“A lot of them actually phoned up people from all over the world,” Kung said.
He said one group spoke to a doctor in Manitoba about genetics and another group toured the national particle accelerator centre at the University of British Columbia, TRIUMF.
“The researcher they talked to there spoke about TRIUMF, but also about her experience working in Switzerland at the Large Hadron Collider,” he said.
The collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider, and the largest machine in the world.
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