What will the future hold? Hexadecimal Optical Computers, of course, at least that's the future according to a group of Grade 9 Centennial students from Coquitlam.
Last week, Tony Liu, Rosie Lu, Kevin Tse and YuXin Zhang were awarded honorable mention for their work pushing the boundaries of today's PC by the Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards Program.
The students, with their coach Karen Borges and Mentor Syd Kreitzman, competed with 5,000 students from across North America to predict what technology might be like 20 years from now. The students in Centennial's Honours Science 9 class hypothesized about a faster computer processor using code other than binary code. The Hexadecimal Optical Computers will be incredibly fast, changing the way the world communicates on a global level, the students argue.
The students won a computer for the school as well as a camcorder for themselves.
