CNC Open Day

The College of New Caledonia held an Open Day for the public to visit the college and see and experience the various courses available.

One fun activity to generate interest was an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of people balancing books on their head. Can you spot the girls in the photo from the Prince George press?

We haven't heard whether or not the attempt has been accepted - apparently there is no entry at this stage so they/we hold the record!

In the Biology department they were showing you how to extract DNA from strawberries. The girls helped to crush the strawberries before ethanol was added by the "scientist". Both were given two small vials to store and keep the syrupy precipitate that contained the strands of DNA.

We reacted chemicals and burnt compounds in the Chemistry labs and electricuted or propelled things in the Physics lab. In the Forestry rooms we learned all about the Lodge Pole Mountain Pine beetle, seen attacking Katie, that is eating billions of trees in British Columbia!