OPEN HOUSE – DECEMBER 1, 2009
APPLIED COASTAL ECOLOGY
1. ACE Makes Waves Across North America
There are herons breeding in Rupert. So what? Follow a student project that becomes more than that – a
life and death drama followed by viewers around the world. Warning – mature subject matter; violence.
Facilitators:
Pouyan Mahboubi, Karin Carlson & Lenda Girard
2. ABORIGINAL POST SECONDARY FUNDING
Short on $ MONEY $ for your post secondary education?: First Nations Access Coordinators will discuss
band funding, Skeena Native Development Society opportunities and scholarships and bursaries.
Facilitators:
Kaarlene Linday & Bernadette McNabb
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
3. The Boardroom Battle
One of the coolest classes in the Business Administration department is the Business Simulation, where
students are put in a simulated business situation, and have to make business decisions based on everchanging information that they are given. This year our department is running a simulation (role play) for
visiting students to participate in and observe.
Facilitator:
John Turner and Business Administration Students
CAREER & COLLEGE PREPARATION
4. Bridge Building Contest
Test your engineering skills. Use your imagination and knowledge to build a bridge with the materials
provided. The bridge that supports the most weight wins!
Facilitator:
Regan Sibbald
5. Internet for Students
Join this hands-on lab session and find out about using BlogLines, Delicious, Google Docs, PageFlakes,
Posterous, and library databases to help you use the Internet to reduce your research time in half and set
up your very own learning network!
Facilitator:
Glenn Groulx
6. Jeopardy
Have you ever wanted to be a contestant on Jeopardy? Come and test your knowledge of First Nations
facts in our version of Jeopardy.
Facilitators:
Mercedes de la Nuez & Jo Scott
7. Math Games/Puzzles Workshop
Come and find out what NWCC's Career and College Prep program has to offer and have some fun too!
Stations will be set up for individuals or teams to work on. Examples of stations might include Sudoku,
Rush Hour, Build a Tower (with paper only...prize for the tallest) as well as others.
Facilitator:
Trudy Dolan
CONTINUING EDUCATION
8. Simulated Heavy Equipment Operator Training
Just like a video game, using hand – eye coordination and realistic hand and foot controls. Continuing
Education provides an opportunity to operate a Wheel Loader, an Excavator or an Off Highway Truck.
See if the world of Heavy Duty Equipment operation may be part of your future.
Facilitator:
Kirby Muldoe
TRADES
9. Electrical
Explore our custom made shop and test your electrical know how. Enter to win iPod Shuffles and
Subway Gift Certificates.
Facilitators:
Paul Eisenhauer, Kevin Basi & Ray Hopkins
10. Welding –ACE-IT
ACE-IT students will each take one high school student for roughly ½ hour and engage them in their
normal routine. This is a hands-on workshop where our guests will be able to try their hand at a variety of
skills that ACE-IT students are presently learning.
Facilitator:
Tom Fodor
UNIVERSITY CREDIT
11. Archaeological Discoveries on the North Coast & Traditional Plant Knowledge
This workshop will introduce the NEW First Nations Studies program at NWCC. The First Nations
Studies Specialization provides all students with the opportunity to learn about First Nations peoples'
cultures, values, beliefs, traditions, protocols, history, languages, and relationship with the land and will
learn about traditional plant knowledge.
Facilitators:
Dave Archer & Judy Thompson
12. Catch of the Day
You never know what you may pull from the water. So much we know – it’s all part of a bigger ecological
web, and we still don’t know many of the interactions going on.
Facilitator:
Peter Freeman
13. Counting Birds in the Internet Age
Bird watching is different since www. It can help with identification, and you can contribute your sightings
to important databases. I will use the Breeding Bird Atlas of BC as an example on how to access the
data, how to contribute, and why. But first, a local bird quiz. It’s all on the internet.
Facilitator:
Reto Riesen
14. Falling & Jumping (Platform Game)
Learn how to simulate gravity in games by making a character jump and fall with Freenfoot – a Java
development environment.
Facilitator:
Efan Zahra’i
15. History - The 9-11 Attack Room
In this session, students will sift through evidence and decide how compelling the conspiracy theory is.
Facilitator:
Hondo Arendt
16. Math – Well, If You Must…
There are much better ways to spend your money than playing the lottery. However, if you insist on
buying lottery tickets, is one better than the others? In this workshop, we will compare Lotto BC and Lotto
649 to the newest lottery, Lotto Max.
Facilitator:
Mona Izumi
17. Psychology of Games
What do you know about Psychology? Who is Bandura? John B. Watson? Maslow? What is the part of
your brain that controls movement? What are the parts of a neuron? Can you learn while dreaming?
Join the Psychology gaming workshop and try your hand at a variety of games created by psychology
students in the past year. It’s fun and (dare I say) educational. Join us and see how you score in your
understanding of psychology.
Facilitator:
Chris Carr
18. Ribosomes, Telomerases
Sounds like serious biology. Why then were this year’s Nobel prizes in Chemistry and Medicine awarded
for such research? We try to make some sense of it and look in which careers you would need to know
about them (hint – in quite a few).
Facilitator:
Reto Riesen
19. Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World
The importance of Fungi in the world is frequently overlooked. Fungus has the ability to solve everything
from toxic waste spills to the Swine Flu. In this workshop we will reveal the hidden mysterious of the
Fungi Kingdom.
Facilitator:
Ken Shaw
20. Writing for Publication
This session will be of interest to those who are currently writing or want to write poems, fiction or life
stories. Topics include developing the writer’s attitude; workshopping tips, educational opportunities in
Prince Rupert, NWCC on –line, and off-campus; magazine and book markets, preparing manuscripts for
editors, and handling rejection (!).
Facilitator:
Jean Rysstad
21. UNBC - PROGRAMS WHERE YOU LIVE
Students can take courses in a number of northwest communities including the Northwest Region which
include both Terrace & Prince Rupert. UNBC's academic offerings make it possible for students studying
at a regional campus to complete the following programs and/or take courses in the following areas:
Bachelor of Arts (General) with Minors in: Anthropology (Sociocultural Stream), English, Environmental
Studies, Geography (Human Geography), History, Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Social Work, and
Nursing.
Facilitators:
UNBC Staff