ROYALTY
Port Coquitlam students Quinn Meldrum, Zachary Fowler, Abigail Martens, Shailin Djaranmardi, Kylee Holms and Jayden Cummins are this year's royal party for May Days. The city, which is celebrating its 100th year in 2013, will host its annual festival from May 3 to 12 - Mother's Day - with the Rotary parade on May 11 at 11 a.m.
BANNERS FOR BROOKLYN
Port Coquitlam artist and children's programmer Diane Moran will deliver 55 street banners to a Brooklyn school that was hit hard during a recent hurricane. Moran worked with students in Ms. Dodic's Grade 10 art class at Fox and Mr. Sclater's Grade 4/5 class at Westwood elementary to design and paint the banners, a gift to PS-15 Patrick F. Daly elementary school in the Red Hook District. The banners - based on the theme Seeds of Support and Global Goodness - are a follow-up to an exchange of letters between the two schools and will be in addition to cash raised during an fundraiser for books to replace those lost during the flood that followed the hurricane.
SCIENCE WHIZ
A total of 23 students from School District 43 took part in the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair last week - the highest number of participants from the Tri-Cities. The six schools that competed at UBC were from Hillcrest, Citadel, Maple Creek and Summit middles and Pinetree and Port Moody secondaries. Among the winners were Janice Pang (Grade 9, Pinetree), who was selected to Team BC to go to the Canada-wide science fair in Lethbridge. She also won a gold medal, UBC statistics award and the UBC Life Sciences Institute Award. Other SD43 winners were Kelvin Zhang (Grade 7, Maple Creek), who was also chosen for Team BC; Aidan MacDonald (Grade 8 Hillcrest); James Situ (Grade 8, Hillcrest); Carly Wang (Grade 8, Summit); Carol He (Grade 9, Port Moody); and Nirvon Shoa (Grade 7, Summit).
MORE SCIENCE
Coquitlam students are tops when it comes to science. Not only did Dr. Charles Best secondary's Selin Jessa win first place at regional finals for the 20th Annual Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada, and second in national finals, but another other local student was awarded as well. Lauren Wilson, of Gleneagle secondary school in Coquitlam, came in second for her research into the connection between Alzheimer's and hypothyroidism. Jessa also won the per review award for her work with HIV proteins. The Sanofi BioGENEius Challengeis a biotechnology research competition that encourages students to pursue future studies and careers in the field of life sciences.
POETRY IN MOTION
Three SD43 high school students are being acknowledged for winning a provincial poetry competition. Maxine Owers, Grade 10, Dene Tabyanian, Grade 11, and Colin Fehr, Grade 12, are three of 10 B.C. students who will head to Toronto next month for the national Poetry in Voice competition. The trio was recognized at Tuesday's board of education meeting in Coquitlam.
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