Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thinking about Sceince fair
Wow, it's almost that time of year again, I cant belive it! Science fair is comming! (: I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet, but I'll have something soon! I'll add more posts when it comes closer to the time.
Monday, May 18, 2009
May 16th - public viewing/ project take-down..... :(
The hardest day of the trip. Knowing its all done as you tare the things off your board......thats exactly how I felt.
Everyones falling asleep, talking quietly about the awards and taking lots of pictures. Thats what it was like today. Saying good bye to friends......getting everyones MSN's........taking a deep breath and pulling the poasters off your board. It feels like your taring a little peice of your heart out. And yea I know it sounds stupid but when you get to go this far with a project you get attached to it. So when it comes to an end it gets pretty hard.
The day started off with me waking up pretty early. I had nothing to do so I called my parents!:P I got ready and we went to breakfast and one again had caned fruit! From there we all walked to the exibit hall for public viewing. It was pretty fun because I got to talk to a bunch of the delagates fron Quebec! It was really good pratice speaking french because I haden't done a lot of it because I presented my project in english. At 12 they let us go to lunch. We all left knowing that when we came back we would be taking our projects down. We had lunch wich I had no idea what it was nor do I remember. We all set out to take out projects down at the exibit hall. We got to the exibit hall I took one last picture, one deep breath and pulled of the question and then pulled everything else off. It took all of 15 minutes to get the stuff off. After leaving the exibit hall for the last time we all went back to the dorm to get ready to go the the imax movie and just hang out. After 2 and a half hours later we met for supper at the manitoba as every other night. We had another grose meal and then headed for the bus stop to catch a bus to the imax theater. We watched a movie about the counry Grese and then one called "under the sea". And nuturally I sang the song "under the sea"!:P In all that night I ate 1 small bag of popcorn, natchos, a king size aero bar, a slushie and a big bag of fuzzy peaches! (Can you belive I ate all that? Well i did!) After the movies we had to take a creepy bus ride back to the U of M with people on drugs and stuff in was kind of scarry!
We got back took some team N.B. pictures and then headed for bed.
It was a very emontinal day but fun!
~~Hannah~~
Everyones falling asleep, talking quietly about the awards and taking lots of pictures. Thats what it was like today. Saying good bye to friends......getting everyones MSN's........taking a deep breath and pulling the poasters off your board. It feels like your taring a little peice of your heart out. And yea I know it sounds stupid but when you get to go this far with a project you get attached to it. So when it comes to an end it gets pretty hard.
The day started off with me waking up pretty early. I had nothing to do so I called my parents!:P I got ready and we went to breakfast and one again had caned fruit! From there we all walked to the exibit hall for public viewing. It was pretty fun because I got to talk to a bunch of the delagates fron Quebec! It was really good pratice speaking french because I haden't done a lot of it because I presented my project in english. At 12 they let us go to lunch. We all left knowing that when we came back we would be taking our projects down. We had lunch wich I had no idea what it was nor do I remember. We all set out to take out projects down at the exibit hall. We got to the exibit hall I took one last picture, one deep breath and pulled of the question and then pulled everything else off. It took all of 15 minutes to get the stuff off. After leaving the exibit hall for the last time we all went back to the dorm to get ready to go the the imax movie and just hang out. After 2 and a half hours later we met for supper at the manitoba as every other night. We had another grose meal and then headed for the bus stop to catch a bus to the imax theater. We watched a movie about the counry Grese and then one called "under the sea". And nuturally I sang the song "under the sea"!:P In all that night I ate 1 small bag of popcorn, natchos, a king size aero bar, a slushie and a big bag of fuzzy peaches! (Can you belive I ate all that? Well i did!) After the movies we had to take a creepy bus ride back to the U of M with people on drugs and stuff in was kind of scarry!
We got back took some team N.B. pictures and then headed for bed.
It was a very emontinal day but fun!
~~Hannah~~
Saturday, May 16, 2009
May 15th - The Awards Ceremony/ closing banquet/ dance!
WOW! What a crazy day! School tours, getting ready in 30 minutes, awards ceremony, closing banquet, DANCE!!!!!!
My day started off with getting ready for the school tours (wich are a complete waste of time because the kids don't understand what your talking about) at the exibition hall. But first we had breakfast! YAY!!!! (NOT!!!!) Then it was off to The Max Bell Center (the exibition hall) for the school tours. At 11:30 they let us go. We had to be back there to catch the bus for the hotel at 12:30 but before that we had to change AND eat lunch! So we took our boxed lunches and went to our rooms to get ready. I wore my black dress thats compleatly sparkles! (I wore it on the empty stocking fund.) So I got myself ready and then we were off. When we arrived at the Canadian polo park inn we went into the big dinning room wich was set up like we were at an awards show with a red carpet! It was very very cool! It wasen't very long before they started handing out the awards. They started off with the special awards. Then they told us that they would be handing ou the "Pertro Canada peer Inovation Award". Our master of cermonies anonced how this award was chosen. The projects are picked by the other students in their region in Canada and in their devision (junior, ect.) "For the alantic region in junior,...... Hannah Wallace!" ME! Wow I was picked out of all the projects in alantic Canada in grade 7 or 8!!!!!! Winning this award means that I get 200$! I wasen't expecting to get anything! The projects are so good and I thaught that just being there and seeing all of this was award enough but aparently it wasen't!:P The awards continued New Brunswick in total got 2 bronze meddles, 1 honorable mention and I belive 3 special awards! For being one of the smallest delagations we did pretty well! The awards cermony finished off with the gold meddle winners (who each got 1 500$ and a full schlorship to one university in Canada) then the 3 planinum award winners (one from junior, intermediate and senior) The projects that won that are amazing! Then there is the "best in fair" award that went to the guy who won the platimun award for senior. He invented a new wheelchair! Once the awards were finished we all went to a different room to watch some dancers who were wicked amazing! Then we went back to the dinning room wich had been compleatly transformed back to a dinning room. We had THE BEST supper EVER! We had salad, carotts, green beans, BEAUTIFUL chicken and white and milk chocolate mosse! The mosse was the best part!:P After supper all the finalists went to the "dance room" for you guessed it the dance!:P It was honostly THE best dance i have ever been to! Everyone hung out together in one big group, the music was amazing (it was so loud that the next morning my ears were still ringing!:P), there was free pop and chips and stuff and plus it was in a real dance club! But I missed everyone soo much they played all the songs that we all like in Saint John! At 11:15 I left the dance with the team from victoria because the rest of team N.B. had left earlier. So I got off the bus at our dorm just as people were comming out in their pj's because someone had pulled the fire alarm! It was pretty funny everyone in their pj's and me in my dress!:P But it was all ok in the end!
A hectic day with a happy ending!
~Miss you guys!
~~Hannah~~
My day started off with getting ready for the school tours (wich are a complete waste of time because the kids don't understand what your talking about) at the exibition hall. But first we had breakfast! YAY!!!! (NOT!!!!) Then it was off to The Max Bell Center (the exibition hall) for the school tours. At 11:30 they let us go. We had to be back there to catch the bus for the hotel at 12:30 but before that we had to change AND eat lunch! So we took our boxed lunches and went to our rooms to get ready. I wore my black dress thats compleatly sparkles! (I wore it on the empty stocking fund.) So I got myself ready and then we were off. When we arrived at the Canadian polo park inn we went into the big dinning room wich was set up like we were at an awards show with a red carpet! It was very very cool! It wasen't very long before they started handing out the awards. They started off with the special awards. Then they told us that they would be handing ou the "Pertro Canada peer Inovation Award". Our master of cermonies anonced how this award was chosen. The projects are picked by the other students in their region in Canada and in their devision (junior, ect.) "For the alantic region in junior,...... Hannah Wallace!" ME! Wow I was picked out of all the projects in alantic Canada in grade 7 or 8!!!!!! Winning this award means that I get 200$! I wasen't expecting to get anything! The projects are so good and I thaught that just being there and seeing all of this was award enough but aparently it wasen't!:P The awards continued New Brunswick in total got 2 bronze meddles, 1 honorable mention and I belive 3 special awards! For being one of the smallest delagations we did pretty well! The awards cermony finished off with the gold meddle winners (who each got 1 500$ and a full schlorship to one university in Canada) then the 3 planinum award winners (one from junior, intermediate and senior) The projects that won that are amazing! Then there is the "best in fair" award that went to the guy who won the platimun award for senior. He invented a new wheelchair! Once the awards were finished we all went to a different room to watch some dancers who were wicked amazing! Then we went back to the dinning room wich had been compleatly transformed back to a dinning room. We had THE BEST supper EVER! We had salad, carotts, green beans, BEAUTIFUL chicken and white and milk chocolate mosse! The mosse was the best part!:P After supper all the finalists went to the "dance room" for you guessed it the dance!:P It was honostly THE best dance i have ever been to! Everyone hung out together in one big group, the music was amazing (it was so loud that the next morning my ears were still ringing!:P), there was free pop and chips and stuff and plus it was in a real dance club! But I missed everyone soo much they played all the songs that we all like in Saint John! At 11:15 I left the dance with the team from victoria because the rest of team N.B. had left earlier. So I got off the bus at our dorm just as people were comming out in their pj's because someone had pulled the fire alarm! It was pretty funny everyone in their pj's and me in my dress!:P But it was all ok in the end!
A hectic day with a happy ending!
~Miss you guys!
~~Hannah~~
Thursday, May 14, 2009
May 14th - Off Campus Activties!
Group 3 - fossils
My tour we were soposed to go to the museam and then to an actual dig......ummm yea.
So the day started off with me waking up at 5:30! Stupid time change! So yea anyway I got up and got ready! Off to a day of fossils! We went to breakfast and then headed to the exibition hall to wait for the buses. Eventually our bus got called. We were off to see the fossils but first standing in our way was a 1 and a half hour drive, on a bus with girls behind you singing clapping games! Not the ideal bus ride! After what seamed like forever we arrived at the museam well actually the community center. The museam is in the basment. The museam it's self was awesome! We all took tons of pictures! And they let us take pictures of real fossils! (Most museams don't let you take pictures of the real thing.) It was really cool. Then lunch..... well first of all they didn't have a place where we could all eat together and the lunches they gave us had like nothing in them! But that wasen't a big deal because I wasen't very hungry. So then they told us we were just going to stay at the museam. But we all really wanted to go to the digs. So they said we could go, we probably woulden't be able to dig but we would be able to see them. We went anyway. So really we just did a lot of driving we saw 2 sites (not digs) and that was pretty cool but sort of boring. I took a lot of pictures. Then we set out for "home". That took about 2 hours because we stoped for treats and we had to change drivers. Finally we got back to the U of M. Then I went to my room and put of some swett pants to be comfortable! At 6 we went to supper wich as always was grose. After that I came back here to have a shower, call my parents and write my blog.
It was a good day in all. Just a little too long!
~I'm getting pretty excited to come home! I miss everyone sooooo much!
~~Hannah~~
~P.S. Tomrrow is public viewing, the awards cermony, closing banquet and dance! Wish me luck!
My tour we were soposed to go to the museam and then to an actual dig......ummm yea.
So the day started off with me waking up at 5:30! Stupid time change! So yea anyway I got up and got ready! Off to a day of fossils! We went to breakfast and then headed to the exibition hall to wait for the buses. Eventually our bus got called. We were off to see the fossils but first standing in our way was a 1 and a half hour drive, on a bus with girls behind you singing clapping games! Not the ideal bus ride! After what seamed like forever we arrived at the museam well actually the community center. The museam is in the basment. The museam it's self was awesome! We all took tons of pictures! And they let us take pictures of real fossils! (Most museams don't let you take pictures of the real thing.) It was really cool. Then lunch..... well first of all they didn't have a place where we could all eat together and the lunches they gave us had like nothing in them! But that wasen't a big deal because I wasen't very hungry. So then they told us we were just going to stay at the museam. But we all really wanted to go to the digs. So they said we could go, we probably woulden't be able to dig but we would be able to see them. We went anyway. So really we just did a lot of driving we saw 2 sites (not digs) and that was pretty cool but sort of boring. I took a lot of pictures. Then we set out for "home". That took about 2 hours because we stoped for treats and we had to change drivers. Finally we got back to the U of M. Then I went to my room and put of some swett pants to be comfortable! At 6 we went to supper wich as always was grose. After that I came back here to have a shower, call my parents and write my blog.
It was a good day in all. Just a little too long!
~I'm getting pretty excited to come home! I miss everyone sooooo much!
~~Hannah~~
~P.S. Tomrrow is public viewing, the awards cermony, closing banquet and dance! Wish me luck!
May 13th - The Second day of judging
Oh my goodness it rained today! Down pour ALL DAY! So I woke-up to rain. I got ready to the second day of judging. The judging today was for the special awards. I was up for the "Dr. Michael Smith Inovation award". The judging was 5 minutes per judge. Pretty fast, so really you really quickly explain what you did and say why you think you should get the award. I got my judging done in the morning then Robin and I (one of my friends from B.C.) walked over to the place where we eat and I ate with the people from B.C. That was a nice change! After lunch we all went back to the exibit hall to wait for like a million hours! So eventually they let us leave and everyone went back to their dorms. Once I got back I started to get ready to meet Liam (he used to dance at the place I do) for supper and to go to the ballet. Then at 4:20 we went to meet Liam. Liam took us to the RWB (Royal Winnapeg Ballet School) to give us a tour and we evan got to go in the company lounge! After that we went to the bar at the Delta for supper. Wich was VERY VERY good! So after supper we walked down to the theater. The show that we saw was like our recitle (except on a bigger scale) it was also VERY VERY GOOD! The first act was just the guraduating students and they did a wonderful job! The second act was the returning students and they performed "The Snow Queen". They also did a super job! The costumes were amazing! And the dancers really fit their parts. Expecially the snow queen! She did such a good job! Then we took a taxi back here! Joy! (the guy had no idea where he was going!) Hahaha!
Well that was my day and I'm feeling a lot less stressed now that the judging is over!
~~Hannah~~
Well that was my day and I'm feeling a lot less stressed now that the judging is over!
~~Hannah~~
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Some of the questions
~Why did you use memory foam?
~How did you come up with your idea for this?
~Draw how the cells in the memory foam work. (I had no idea how to do this but anyway)
~Why does the gel in the old toe pads evaporate?
~If you did this again what would you change?
~Do you think you could add more padding to the toe pads?
~If you were to get other people to test the toe pads who would you get to test them?
~Are there other toe pads on the market that are similar?
~those are most of the questions (most of the judges asked the same questions)
~~Hannah~~
~How did you come up with your idea for this?
~Draw how the cells in the memory foam work. (I had no idea how to do this but anyway)
~Why does the gel in the old toe pads evaporate?
~If you did this again what would you change?
~Do you think you could add more padding to the toe pads?
~If you were to get other people to test the toe pads who would you get to test them?
~Are there other toe pads on the market that are similar?
~those are most of the questions (most of the judges asked the same questions)
~~Hannah~~
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
May 12th jugement day! (the first day of judging)
The first day of judging. Was GREAT! My day started off with the usual breakfast. Caned fruit. Grose! But today didn't start off as bad as the other days. It's the first day of judging exciting but terrifing! So after breakfast we all went to the exibit hall to get ready. We didn't have a lot of time but in a way I think that was good! My first judge was very nice she asked me a lot of questions (but here we say that if a judge asks you a lot of questions then they are interested in your project so it's a good thing.) (I'll make a list of the questions at the end). My second judge was from the Canadian Grain Assoation so I'm not exactally sure why he was one of my judges but anyway I explained my project to him then he asked me 2 questions and then left so I'm not sure where he liked it or hated it. My third judge seamed really intrugiued by my project asked me lots of questions and we just had a conversation. The fouth and fith judge were together wich was a nice change just to be able to talk to 2 people instead of 1. They also really seamed to like my project. Then we went to lunch where I ate salad and cake. (Very wonderful I know.) After that we all headed back to the exibit hall for you guessed it more judging!!! My sixth and seventh judges were also together. Like most of the other they really seamed truly interested in what I did and what I was saying. So my judging was over so sence the guys on team N.B. are being idiots I made some new friends from Victoria B.C. They're really nice and acepted me into their group right away. One of them is evan named Hannah too! So at 4:30 they finally let us go back to our dorms to change. Then it was off to supper wich didn't have any corn of fake fround beef!!!! YAY!!!! It was actual chicken! And it was really good! Then we went back to our dorms (again). Then we went back to the same building for lectures. Oh how fun! (yea right) the stuff went in one ear and out the other! After that we came back to our dorms where I am right now had a shower and now am writing this. Guess what we do tomrrow?!?! More JUDGING!!!!
~wish me luck!
~~Hannah~~
~P.S. I'll write some of the questions on here in the morning.
~wish me luck!
~~Hannah~~
~P.S. I'll write some of the questions on here in the morning.
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