For more than forty years, the Bay Area Science & Engineering Fair has provided a forum for students in the Hamilton and Halton area to develop their scientific skills and prepare for national and international competition. BASEF is one of the largest and longest-running science fairs in Canada, and features outstanding work from the the hundreds of students who compete each year.  Outstanding HCDSB students earned awards, recognition, trips to Vancouver and Phoenix for national and international fairs, and post-secondary opportunities through their participation in this year's science fair.  Don't miss out on this opportunity.  Check out http://basef.ca/2006 for more details about this year's competition.  Tentative Project registration dates are February 6th to March 3rd.

We invite the students in your school to participate in this contest. The aim of the competition is to provide students with an opportunity to test their ability in designing, understanding and implementing algorithms.  The Canadian Computing Competition is an activity of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, of the University of Waterloo's Math Faculty. The Centre also runs the Canadian Mathematics Competition.

Offered through the University of Waterloo, the Pascal Contest (grade 9), Cayley Contest (grade 10), and Fermat Contest (grade 11) are annual math contests that attract the brightest minds in high school math.  These contests are run each year through the Math Department at your high school.  Check with the Math Department regarding signing up and taking any of these tests.  More information is available on the website.

This is a test consisting of 50 multiple-choice questions; prepared and reviewed by faculty members in the Departments of Botany and Zoology, University of Toronto. The exam questions will cover material that a senior high school biology student is likely to have come across in their studies. The content of the exam will reflect the similarities in the secondary school biology curricula among the provinces.

Win scholarship money with this exciting competition.  2006 competition to take place in February, 2006! 

The Brain Bee is modeled after a spelling bee; high schools students from grades 9 through 12 are eligible to compete. Students take turns answering questions about the brain and neuroscience. Young men and women from all over North America compete to determine who is the "best brain" on such topics as intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, movement, stress, aging, sleep, addiction, and many other brain topics. In a two step process, local competitions are held throughout Canada and the US, with the winners invited to the championship at the University of Maryland during Brain Awareness Week.

Check it out at: http://brain.psychology.mcmaster.ca/BrainBee/