- Date: Friday, Oct. 22, 1999
- Time: 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
- Place: Churchill Secondary School, 7055 Heather St.
A demonstration of how ultra-high energy cosmic rays are detected
— rare events that occur less than once a year per square kilometre
— will be held this Friday, Oct. 22 at Churchill Secondary School
in Vancouver. The event is part of the province’s 11th Festival
of Science and Technology currently underway until Oct. 24.
The ALTA-BC Cosmic Ray project is a joint effort among UBC, the
University of Alberta and high schools in B.C. and Alberta. Eventually,
permanent cosmic ray detector stations will be set up on the rooftops
of B.C. secondary schools with students and teachers at these schools
maintaining the detectors as part of the school’s career preparation,
science and information technology programs.
The 11th Festival of Science and Technology is sponsored by the
province’s Information, Science and Technology Agency and is aimed
at showing youth and the public the connections between science,
technology and careers. For more information on festival events
and schedules, visit www.scitech.gov.bc.ca.
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