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Middle-schooler heading to Dalhousie University
By Sheila Runions Banner Staff
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n two weeks 14-year-old Hashim Farooq of Rivers will be in Nova Scotia setting up a display for a national competition. The Grade 8 student at Rivers Collegiate is also a second-year 4-H member with Rivers Multi-Purpose Club. It is through this organization that he is travelling to the Maritimes where he will participate in 4-H Canada’s first-ever science fair. His virtual entry was one of 12 accepted from across the country for personal presentation at Dalhousie University’s agricultural campus in Truruo on March 3-6. Winners will then compete in Canada-Wide Science Festival (CWSF), held in Montreal. Hashim paid a $100 program
fee but all other expenses related to this science fair are paid by 4-H. He will arrive with the three other Manitoba winners, and a 4-H Canada leader, on Friday, March 3 to set up his display for judging the next day. There will also be presentations/ workshops by 4-H co-ordinators and university teachers as well as the opportunity to meet peers, exchange ideas and tour the campus to “gain insight into the important role science and technology plays in agriculture in Canada,” reads the 4-H website. Hashim’s project is a powerless phone case. “I thought of this project when I got frustrated over always having to charge my phone. I tried using the charging cases but
they also eventually ran out of charge; I wanted to invent the infinite power phone case. When I tried doing that for about three weeks, I found that it wasn’t
possible so I came up with the powerless phone case — it uses the heat from your hand to charge your phone. “The powerless phone case uses something called the Peltier effect. Basically when one side is heated and the other side is cooled, it creates electricity. The greater the temperature difference, the more electricity it will create. The phone case only has nine components in the circuit and three Peltier elements; the case’s body is made from copper and aluminum.” Canada-Wide Science Festival’s website says it “engages bright minds in amazing discovery while recognizing Canada’s top young scientists and their projects. CWSF continues to
be an inspiration for innovative young Canadians who dream of transforming their ideas into solutions to global challenges and exciting new businesses.” CWSF is open to students in Grades 7-12 who compete for awards, prizes and scholarships of nearly $1 million. There will be 500 youth and their projects from more than 100 regional science fairs at McGill University on May 18-20. A panel of 350400 judges comprising local university, college and private sector researchers, scientists and engineers will select the winners. Here’s hoping Hashim, who was only 13 when he created his project, will be one of the successful winners — good luck!
ship tents located along several of the fairways.” While Janice will be working in Florida next month, she also hopes to be the lucky volunteer chosen to make a $10,000 donation to charity. There is a volunteer challenge which, as of Feb. 17, has been accepted by 95 volunteers. These people are asking all associates and even strangers to vote for them; it’s free and online. The volunteer with the most votes will present a $10,000 cheque to Arnie’s Army Charitable Foundation for the Arnold Palmer Medical Center. To date, she leads the way by a mere 44 votes. If you would like to support her efforts to make this donation, visit www. pgatour.com/volunteers register to vote (free), select the Arnold
Palmer Invitational and vote for Janice Meadows. (For the direct link, visit http://www.tourchallenge.com/ArnoldPalmerInvitational/Vote?entryId=11158). She also has a voting link on her Facebook page so voting and sharing there will spread the word even farther. For every vote she (or any volunteer collects), an additional dollar will be added to Arnie’s Foundation. The annual Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament in Orlando is March 16-20; voting continues until March 18. Only one vote per person is allowed and with nearly 650 votes, Janice’s circle of acquaintances is thinning so please support a local lady who says, “I know the guy who is in second must want to win as bad as I do!”
Volunteer vies for votes By Sheila Runions Banner Staff
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anice Meadows quite literally grew up golfing. “My parents, Allen and Elaine Campbell, owned Riverview Golf Course east of Brandon back in the 1960s/early 70s, so I grew up with golf right out the back door. Our whole family — Mom, Dad, my brothers and I, and even my grandma — were involved either looking after the clubhouse, mowing grass or raking sand greens. Almost 50 years later I am still involved in the sport. This June I will be chairing the golf portion of the Manitoba Senior Summer Games [in Brandon] as well as chairing the Clear Lake Ladies Classic. I’m also part of a determined group who hope to bring back the Ladies Western Open at the Wheat City Golf Course. Unfortunately, with the flooding the past few years, the tournament has not been held but we hope this will be the year we can showcase the course as it was in its pre-flood days.”
While Janice grew up a few miles east of Brandon, she now lives six miles north of Forrest with her husband Allan. Her name may be familiar to readers because she was a school trustee for the Rapid City/Forrest/Douglas area from 19882003; she was the executive director of Brandon Regional Health Centre (BRHC) from 2000-2010; she’s currently on the fundraising committee for BRHC Foundation and is a paid part-time assistant to BRHC Auxiliary. It was four years ago that Allan and Janice attended their first Arnold Palmer tournament. “We first attended the Arnold Palmer Invitational as spectators and thought it was such a great tournament — so many big-name golfers who played on such a beautiful course. When we planned a return visit the following year I was searching the website for tickets and noticed the volunteer tab. It
was an easy process to apply; I thought, ‘What the heck? I’ll probably never hear back,’ but I did! I was assigned to the shuttles committee and welcomed spectators as they arrived at the course, took photos of spectators with some of the Arnold Palmer signage and handed out the booklets of information with the day’s golf pairings. This year I will be working at the sponsor-