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March 22, 2000

Rick Campbell

Vice President, Director
Tel: 655.5555

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Sidney Days
are time for
Home C oming It wasn't exactly test tubes filled

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an If you are one of those super- § BOE IE RUSE PE strange aromas wafting around
achievers — or if you know one of. the North Saanich Middle School
those amazing people who was’ gymnasium on.Tuesday, March
_ Taised in Sidney and has gone on 14, but it was science nonetheless.
to cure disease, send a person to From testing the effects of
Mars, play. a really. mean sports drinks on athletic perfor- .
‘piano/: guitar/violin weil s time to’ § mance to studying whether music :
~~. come home... -actually helps plants to grow, the: 4
we" Or it-will-be between. June 30: -gym was filled with 176 Grade 8

and. July: 2,-if: you are that fa-. - students all eager to demonstrate
‘mous/infamous Sidney resident... thep own scientific theories.

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10, out te friends and fami ily

“towns for the homecoming event.
Finding ‘those’ people isthe
problem. ‘Mayor Don‘Amos said
he’s putting out the call-to resi-
dents, so that no ‘one is missed
out: Get the names of those fa- |
- mous Sidney-ites to Town Halll, or
call 656-1139. with the: informa

youngsters calling it

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“self-directed

learning.”
“They learn a lot because ‘they
are doing it themselves, it’s not di-.
: ‘recte ed same way as in the. class.
room.” :
-Andrew Young, a Grade 7 stu:
dent, was a prime example of the’
lengths to which some students.
go to achieve a unique project:
Young, one year under the age
of participation, came to the. sci-”
“ence fair with an operational hov-
ercraft.
. “Y've always been interested | in
science,” said Young of his partic-
ipation in the fair. “I always Strive
high.”
And with a few hooked up ca
bles, and a switch of a button, he
demonstrated his hover craft as it
1. was dodging between both table
-and human legs. Fae
“It's more complicated than "
actually thought, but I enjoyed do- :
ing it,” he said of the project.
And while not every student: oe
-can create such a marvel of me- :
- chanical might, there were plenty
working model of a hovercraft that ho has :davaoped ~~ and he's full of ideas for other exporinents. — ne ier CONTINUED ON PAGES ;

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