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Converging with other gifted students from Southwestern Ontario, students will have an opportunity to attend a one day conference at the Nipissing campus in Brantford, Ontario. You will choose two workshops from a variety of selections designed with you in mind and presented by the teacher pre-service candidates in partnership with the Inter-Board Network for Gifted Education. The day will be filled with fun-filled challenges and the opportunity to connect with other gifted students from across the region.
The Ontario Science Centre (Junior & Intermediate) Junior While viewing the IMAX film “The Human Body,” investigate how the human body’s systems and organs work together as you follow a tomato on its journey to the biological blender of the stomach. Travel through the bloodstream and into the pumping chamber of the heart. Embark on a voyage down the ear canal and into the caverns of the middle ear to discover how your brain makes sense of the sounds around you. The most advanced scanning electron microscopes, thermal imaging, medical computer graphics and stunning real-life images give a remarkable glimpse of the amazing things that take place beneath the skin to keep us ticking.
In the school program “Diversity of the Microworld,” focus on the diversity in structure and function of animal and plant cells with a hands-on microscopy workshop. Explore the roles microorganisms play in our everyday lives, from producing foods and medicines, to helping digestion and causing illness.
Intermediate The IMAX film “The Mystery of the Nile” will take students on a breathtaking cinematic adventure on an expedition down the world’s greatest and most deadly river, The Blue Nile. Follow the exploits of a team of explorers facing seemingly insurmountable challenges – rapids, crocodiles, hippos, bandits, malaria, sand storms and the fierce desert sun. Journey with the crew on their four month expedition along all 5,216 km of the river as they become the first in history to complete a full descent of the Blue Nile from source to sea.
In the school program “Environmental Solutions,” determine where is the best water source and how can you access it? Engage in the design process and confront the complexities of selecting and supplying a community with a clean water supply. From problem definition and data collection, to the building of a device to solve the challenge, you will take part in a scientific inquiry and design model.
Academic Quadrathalon (Intermediate) Based at the site of each feeder high school, grade seven and eight students come together in teams of four to challenge their mental flexibility and critical and creative thinking skills. This popular event, facilitated by secondary students, will include four areas of competition: trivia, math and problem-solving, an engineering challenge, and a scavenger hunt through the school. Intermediate students will have the unique opportunity to experience the excitement of the high school setting as they work along side their gifted peers.
Burlington Arts Centre (Junior) The Hands-On program is an innovative art enrichment experience consisting of a both a tour of the current gallery exhibitions and a Hands-On workshop. The tours are led by professionally trained volunteer docents while the workshops are conducted by professional artists in well-equipped, spacious studios. Students will choose a workshop from a variety of forms, mediums and techniques ranging from watercolour, to clay-slab work, to wire sculpture or print-making.
Dundas Valley School of Art (Intermediate) The Dundas Valley School of Art is an independent art school which offers a wide spectrum of activities in the visual arts. Graduates of the school have been accepted in prestigious Masters programmes in Canada, Britain, and the United States. Children as young as four years old take advantage of courses offered which include drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, and art history. Under the tutelage of a professional artist, the intermediate students will participate in a half day workshop linked to the Ontario Visual Arts Curriculum which promises to be a challenging and rewarding experience.
Robotics Competition (Junior & Intermediate) Students will engage in a self-directed engineering and robotics design challenge to create individual projects which will then be entered into a Board level competition. More details will be posted.
Mini-Conference (Intermediate) Students will be given the opportunity to research, develop and present an independent project in their chosen area of expertise or interest at a mini-conference to be held in April. If you are an expert in computer design, cooking, yoga, microbiology, physics, rocketry or another area, then you can showcase your skills and talents to your peer group during this one day board-level event.
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