Youth science fair takes over Ontario university campus April 5 [Video]

Will there be working models of volcanoes? Probably. Will there be solutions to climate change or answers to the big bang theory? Maybe. What will certainly be found at the Durham Regional Science Fair on April 5 will be plenty of junior inventors and tinkerers and possibly a future nuclear physicist or two.

All of the youth (Grade 4 to 12) in attendance will be there in the name of science and while prodigies are more than welcome, participants do not have to have participated (or won) at any other science fairs at their schools, libraries or other local organizations.

Ontario Tech University’s Faculty of Science will host the region’s young scientists at the annual science fair, which has been held at the Oshawa university for 19 years.

“We are hoping to grow this regional science fair, continuing the pattern we have over the past several years,” said fair coordinator …