March 29^th – Mic Mac Mall Public Display, Jr. High Popsicle Stick Bridge Competition, and High School Design Competition

Check out the Annual Mic Mac Mall Public Engineering Display. There will be fun and games for the kids, and displays including university student projects, engineering historic sites and other engineering projects from around HRM and Nova Scotia. This is also the venue for the Provincial Junior High School Popsicle Stick Bridge Competition and the High School Design Competition. Come see the student’s final designs be judged and tested. The winning teams will be announced after the testing.

Do you have a couple hours in the morning or early afternoon to volunteer? The Junior High School Egg Drop Competitions run all month long. This is a very fun and interactive competition that allows junior high science students to practice their problem solving, budgeting, and presentation skills to design a contraption that will (hopefully) protect an egg from breaking when it is dropped from a height of 3 metres. Gather up a team of people from your office, your network of contacts, or just send in your name to be grouped in with others. Please contact Virginia MacQuarrie at virginia@engineersnovascotia.ca for more details or to express your interest.

It’s early yet, and the Committee is still working on pulling together the details of the events listed here. If you’d like more information about how to get involved, contact Christopher Davis, P.Eng. (davisc@halifax.ca). I hope to see you at our events in March!