Volunteers Needed for Education Outreach Truss Building Activity

In conjunction with the Science Education Partnership the Lambton chapter of the PEO will once again offer schools the chance to participate in an activity celebrating National Engineering Month (NEM).

Volunteers will visit Grade 5 classrooms in pairs to lead students through a truss building activity. Students work in pairs to build a truss structure to given specifications. Trusses are tested to measure the load at failure. Prospective volunteers will first be invited to observe a classroom session to learn what is involved. The activity takes approximately two thirds of a school day (~4 hours).

This opportunity aligns with expectations in the Gr. 5 Forces Acting on Structures unit. All materials will be provided by the SEP Science Centre. Students will have the real-world engineering challenge of building the strongest truss they can with the least amount of material.

Please contact Wendy Hooghiem at the Science Education Partnership for more information or if you are interested. Wendy.Hooghiem@lkdsb.net or 519-335-1500 ext. 31580

Volunteers Needed - Judges for 2021 Lambton County Science Fair

The 2021 Lambton County Science Fair is being held the week of April 5th through April 11th digitally this year.  As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 precautions, a complete digital fair will be held for all regions in Canada.  Lambton County anticipates a return of the in person fair during 2022. 

With the temporary fair setup, the need for volunteer judges continues along with a revised (and in some ways easier) judging format for this year. 

The organizing committee is looking for interested people who are willing to give a few hours of their time to assist in the judging of projects.  The event needs people from the scientific community to donate their time to judge the Fair each year.  If you are involved in teaching and/or science and technology and would like to spend a fascinating bit of time reviewing and potentially talking to Science Fair participants, we would love to hear from you.  The donation of your time is very important, as the Lambton County Science Fair ultimately selects up to 5 students to advance to the Canada Wide Science Fair every year, based on your hard work. 

The philosophy of judging is to make sure that it is a positive experience for the students and gives them an opportunity to interact with people who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about science. 

For those that have been involved in the past, this year’s judging will be significantly different; however, will strive to remain consistent with the national judging program planned.   The main focus of judging will be broken into 2 phases.  The first will include review of projects in the virtual science website at leisure.  While this website has not been made public yet, it is expected to be similar to the following site displaying last years Canada Wide entries https://projectboard.world/ysc/home?r=j7o65.  The second phase of judging will include virtual meetings of select projects to determine winners.  

For the first round of judging, those assisting will simply pick convenient times in your day(s) within the stated window of time to review the online project content and score a list of projects provided to you.  Judging will be completed, once you’ve turned over your scores and ranking to the Chief Judge.  This format is designed to make it easy for you to judge anytime over the week and will likely only take a couple hours of total effort. 

In the second round of judging, either Saturday or Sunday, you will be taking the top selections identified during the week and conducting 20min interviews in groups of 2 or more with students, to further grade their projects and determine whether they are eligible to be a winner in their age category or be a Canada Wide Participant.  Times and meeting organization will be prepared for you and assigned in Microsoft Teams or similar format.  There will be hard cut-off times for interview fairness between students and all times will fall in a stated window of availability.  You will present your selections to the chief judge following completion of your judging on Saturday or Sunday.  Judges from the first round of judging can participate in Saturday’s second round of judging. 

We are looking for judges that are available to help at the following times:

• Between Mon. April 5th evening and Fri. April 9th morning (you pick your time at leisure to review a group of online projects and rank them with a score)

• Saturday April 10th (intermittent from about 9:00 am until 4:00 pm) including online interviews/judging through Microsoft Teams (or similar) in pairs

• Sunday April 11th (intermittent from about 9:00 am until 3:00 pm) including online interviews/judging through Microsoft Teams as a group

We will accept as many volunteers as possible, although with the revised format we may need to adjust the judging totals based on projects entered.

If you are interested in judging at the fair, please contact Mike Crabb (mike.crabb@woodplc.com; mikecrabb13@gmail.com; or 519-330-9587).  If possible, please provide the following information:

• Contact information (both email and phone number)

• Availability for Pre-Judging during the week and / or

• Availability for Virtual Judging sessions Saturday or Sunday.

• (if planning to judge virtually on the weekend) Confirmation of access to a web camera/microphone on your computer and preferred virtual software (used Teams/Zoom/etc.)

Age Levels:

(a) Exhibition (grade 6 and below)

(b) Junior (grades 7 & 8)

(c) Intermediate (grades 9 & 10) 

(d) Senior (grades 11 and 12)

Public Invited to Local FIRST Lego League Tournament

Members of the Lambton PEO and public in general, are invited to this year's local FIRST Lego League Tournament this Saturday, December 9th from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm at Rosedale Public School.

For spectators, the afternoon has the robot performance part of the competition, which is in the gym and features 28 head-to-head matches. Two matches (4 teams) at a time will be happening with each match lasts 2 1/2 minutes and happening at 10 minute intervals.  Approximate time for spectators will be 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm

Admission to all FIRST events is always free and the gym us wheelchair accessible.

Official Event Page

The Lambton PEO is a proud supporter of the FIRST Lego League.

2017 Mathletics

Students from the winning school, Rosedale Public School.

On November 18th, 2017 the Lambton chapter hosted their annual Mathletics Competition at Great Lakes Secondary School.  The event welcomed 45 grade five through eight students from 15 schools. They participated in a math-based competition to apply their current math knowledge and learn some new concepts. 

Congratulations to the students from Rosedale Public School who took home the Team Award for the top school. A special shout-out to Colonel Cameron who got 2nd with only 3 students and to Gregory A. Hogan for their solid third place finish.

The top three students from each grade were awarded cash prizes of $75, $50, and $25. The winners can be found in the results document linked below.

Finally, a huge thank-you to the energetic volunteers who made this event possible! See everyone next year!

2018 Competition

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Go ENG Girl 2017

2017 was the first year the Lambton chapter of the PEO was able to team up with Western University to bring Go ENG Girl to Sarnia. The event hosted 47 girls in grades 7 through 10 at Great Lakes Secondary School to learn about the wonderful world of engineering: "A Caring Profession." 

The chapter would like to thank Western University for all of their help facilitating this event and bringing it to one of the few non-university cities.

We would also like to thank all of the volunteers that made it possible.

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