The following compilation is from an overnight trip to Vancouver with the Grade 10 Challenge classes in 2008.
There was a lot of hacky-sack going on, when we weren't either at TRIUMF, Fort Langley, or on a bus
going around in circles. Unfortunately, I have had to black out the heads of any people
in the pictures for privacy reasons, so this gallery doesn't really capture how much fun the trip was.
It's really worth going out on the deck to get shots like these, even if the wind and your hair don't
really get along.
This is where we stayed, in little one-person rooms that consisted of a bed, a closet, and a desk.
For some reason, I never thought to take a picture of my room. The grounds were quite nice, though.
I took a whole bunch of cool pictures of people outside of the TRIUMF Facility, this was the only one of
an inanimate object.
TRIUMF: TRI-University-Meson-Facility
Here they use a cyclotron-particle-excellerator-something-or-other to fire protons at each other in at extremely high speeds in a vacuum to detect sub-subatomic particles... and stuff.
Here they use a cyclotron-particle-excellerator-something-or-other to fire protons at each other in at extremely high speeds in a vacuum to detect sub-subatomic particles... and stuff.
A radiation dosimeter measures the amount of radiation you are exposed to.
I guess super-nerds can still have a sense of humor.
These are huge electromagnets that they use to steer the protons, which have a positive charge, and can
be attracted or repelled to keep them on course.
It seemed that you could look anywhere without seeing on of those signs: DANGER: High Voltage.
They might as well have just tattood it on our eyelids, and saved the paper.
Now this was cool! We were over the center of the particle accelerator, where there was a strong magnetic field
that caused the paper clips to stand on end. I have some really cool shots of people balancing them on
their noses and tongues, but wasn't allowed to include them.
CAT-Scan machine.
I have no clue what the numbers mean, but I'm guessing it has something to do with: DANGER, High Voltage again.
I just thought it looked cool.
UBC is like its own little city. I find it amusing that the street names are subject departments,
but I guess it makes sense.
Anyone who doesn't catch the Beatles reference here is sentenced to go and listen to Abbey Road. Twice.
One random white blossom among the pinkies. It's like the John Travolta of flowers. (in Grease, Danny was the only one who wore a black shirt)
The buildings were also really cool-looking in UBC.
This is where we stopped for lunch on the first day. Good times.
The guy's name was George. 'Nuff said.
I had the theme from Mario stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
This is in the common room on the main floor of our building. I just barely fit.
I had to GIMP out the brand name on the bottom of his shoe; it looked cooler before.
This is on the wall of the main building outside of Fort Langley.
An activity to see how much work it was for people to saw logs all day.
One of the storage buildings.
A boat like the ones the NWC would have used to transport furs.