VirtualScienceFair.com
Title
Home - 2006 Canada Wide Virtual Science Fair
Description
The Canada Wide Virtual Science Fair is an annual online science and technology contest open to all Canadian students in grades K-12. Founded in 1999, the goal is to provide a direction and motivation for students and teachers to make the very best use of computer/Internet technology while developing positive attitudes towards science and technology. We particularly encourage the participation of students in more remote regions, of aboriginal descent, and those who may not normally participate in an extra-curricular science activity.
There are absolutely no fees charged for participation and free web site hosting is provided to each project team. Children from remote locations and small rural schools can compete equally with their urban peers. The completed projects are judged by a distinguished group of judges, from both industry and academia, located in Canada, the United States, and France.
Similar to traditional science fairs, the Virtual Science Fair challenges students to explore, examine and analyze scientific questions that arise in the course of their studies or life experiences. However, most significantly, the Virtual Science Fair frees students from the physical, geographic and financial constraints of participating in typical science fairs at the national level. Via the capabilities of Internet/computer technology students post their findings where they can be reviewed and shared by judges and students anywhere in the world. By using Internet/computer technology, the Virtual Science Fair provides a bridge for young scientific minds from Campbell River BC to Iqaluit NU to Regina SK to Halifax NS to interact as if they were part of the same local neighbourhood.
Contact
- OBERG, LARRY
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- Victoria BC
- CA V8S 5E7
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