Annual Events

College Chemistry Canada (C3) Annual Conference

TRU hosted the annual C3 conference in Kamloops, BC on May 13-15, 2010.  This conference featured presentations and discussion of the latest in innovative undergraduate education. Visit C3 for more details.


BC Secondary Schools Mathematics Contest

The Final Round of the BC Secondary Schools was held at TRU on Friday, May 7, 2010.  This is the 38th annual contest and is hosted by TRU Department of Mathematics and Statistics. There wasa total of 13 schools participating from school districts  73, 27, 58 and 74 including 75 students and 12 teachers.  For the days agenda, please go to Math contest agenda.


High School Chemistry Contest  

The chemistry department  offers a contest involving annual written tests, based on the BC curriculum for Chemistry 11 and 12 students.  All Chemistry 11 and Chemistry 12 students are invited to participate.

This year's contest was on May 19, 2010.  Please visit  Chem contest for more information.

Poster Day

Each year,  upper level science students who have been working on research or projects at TRU are required to participate in a poster presentation day.  Projects and presentation are judged by a team of professors and students and then graded based on the outcome.

The next poster day is scheduled for April 2011.

Regional Science Fair

Each year, Thompson Rivers Univeristy  hosts  the Cariboo-Mainline Regional Science Fair in the TRU gymnasium.

Students from Elementary and High Schools throughout the region submit their Science projects.  This is a busy 3 day event with registration taking place on day 1, judging, tours, activities, dinner and swimming on day 2, science presentation/demonstrations and awards ceremony on day 3.  Several of the top projects are selected to go on to the Canada Wide Fair  to be held in Nova Scotia in 2007.  For more information on how to particpate contact the committee chairperson, Tracey Poelzer at tpoelzer@sd73.bc.ca or to register online go to http://sciencefair.sd73.bc.ca

If you want to volunteer to be a tour guide, judge or help the Eureka project, please contact Janice Karpluk at jkarpluk@tru.ca .  The next Regional Science Fair is scheduled for  April 6-8,  2011.