Lögberg-Heimskringla - 28.04.1995, Blaðsíða 7

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 28. april 1995 • 7
Crystal wins Canadian
students’ blue-chip award
By Ed Rogers
Rick Stephen
and Vik Tand-
on learned
they had won a
regional chemistry
contest while listenirig
to the Ancaster High
School public address
system in November.
A similar PA
announcement in
December told them
that the deep blue
crystal they had grown
placed first in a
national competition. And just a few
days ago, they each received their tro-
phies and cheque for $150.
Next month, the teenagers may even
be called to their school office to
retrieve the translucent copper sul-
phate crystal, also known as bluestone.
For now their work, which grew as
long and wide as a hand in just three
Rick Stephen
Icelandic
Canadian
Frón
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weeks, is on display
at the Museum of
Science and Tech-
nology in Ottawa.
The pair — Rick is in
Grade 12 and Vik in
Grade 11 — beat out
100 other high school
entries to win the
Chemical Institute of
Canada contest.
“It was a surprise.
It was exciting,”, said
Riek, 17. He’s partici-
pated in the annual
contest since it began
in 1992. Vik, 16,
joined him as a partner this year.
Ancaster High School chemistry
teacher Rocco Collette, the team’s
advisor, said the students’ attention to
detail helped them win. Almost each
day, for the best effect, they cleaned
and thickened the solution in which
the crystal grew. “Once we had a
large, single crystal -there was no stop-
ping it,” Rick said. Eventually, the
bluestone, suspended by a thread,
scraped the bottom and sides of a one-
liter beaker. Six-sided and shaped like
a parallelogram, it weighed in at 404
grams (12 ounces). The crystals were
judged on their combination of mass
and quality. But what they had in
mass they lost in quality.
While the bluestone has no partic-
ular use, the process of growing it
promotes the educational mandate of
the CIC, said Donald Barclay, chair of
the organization’s 300-member Ham-
ilton section. (Rick’s parents are
I.C.C.T. members Jim & Holly Garr-
ett.)
hildren’s Corner
Readand
Leafn
Þrestir
Einn daginn sáu börnin
fjögur lítil egg í hreiörinu.
En þá komu þrestirnir fljúgandi.
„Þarna koma mamman og pabbinn,”
sagöi Erna.
“En ég veit ekki, hvor er mamman
og hvor er pabbinn.”
Þá sáu þau, aö annar fuglinn
flaug aö hreiörinu og settist á eggin.
“Þetta er mamman,” sagöi Árni.
"Þaö er rétt, Árni minn,” sagöi
mamma þeirra.
Thrush
One day the children saw
four small eggs in the nest.
But then the thrush came flying.
“There comes the mom and the dad,”
said Erna.
"But I don’t know which is the mom
and which is the dad.”
Then they saw that one of the birds
flew to the nest and sat down on the eggs.
"This is the mother,” said Arni.
“That is right, Arni dear," said
their mother.

Sailing in a Tub
by Jacobina Nord
Red Deer, Alberta
Rub - A - Dub - Tub - Three men in a tub.
But this time -1 am informed
Your young brother is sailing in the tub.
How can I manage?
So far out from shore.
I’ll try to rescue him.
How can I? Swim, walk and hurry.
For that gentle breeze is pushing
My brother further on and out to deeper
waters
Now, when I reach him, can I touch bottom?

This I must try, and gentle must I be.
So as not to upset the saílor you see
l've obtained my destination.
On tip-toe now and water up to my mouth
Gently I reached the tub and on standing
position.
We are on our way back and what a relief
to be back to shore.
In remembrance of Kitchener Olson, my
brother, who was 7 years old when this hap-
pened. I was 14 - just beginning to learn to
swim. That was our fírst bit of luck. 1 couldn ’t
touch bottom in piaces so I went farther north,
this helped so all went OK. One saved from
drowning at Steep Rock, Manitoba.
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