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University supports science at all levels

Posted on: Monday, 28 July 2003, 06:00 CDT

Lincoln University aims to support science at all levels.

University liaison officer Renata Cooper says everything good has to start somewhere, and for most of Lincoln University's science students, that somewhere was school.

"The University is really keen to encourage a passion for science at all levels of the education system and it does this in a number of ways, including the sponsorship of the annual Canterbury Westland Science and Technology Fair.

"This fair, open to school students from Year 7 to Year 13, is always a showcase of amazing school-age science and technology talent."

Chief Judge Jonathan Hickford says no one who has been to these fairs could be in any doubt that science and technology were alive and well among local school students.

This year's fair will be held in the Christchurch Convention Centre on August 24 and 25. More than 300 entries are expected.

The fair has also been supported by the Canterbury Development Corporation and Chief Executive Chris Pickrill is emphatic that the key driving force for economic development in successful cities and regions is the commercialisation of knowledge, innovation and applied technology.

"Good science is vital to the process and good science has to start in our schools," he says.

Lincoln University also supports science in schools through its Teaching In Schools programme -- which gives schools the opportunity to invite university staff members into the classroom for a lesson in a particular specialist topic -- and through the newly established Christchurch College of Biotechnology.

This gives high-achieving Year 13 students the opportunity to take first-year Lincoln University biotechnology papers, concurrently with their school work.

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