About E-fest!

This year's APEGBC Vancouver E-fest was a great success. This event, now in it's 13th year, was held on February 28, 2009 at the Promenade of the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch. E-fest is our Branch's main public outreach event and thousands of visitors learned about our professions and our achievements. There was a broad representation of industry representatives, engineering organizations and student projects. The hands-on displays were a hit with children and adults alike. New at this year's E-fest included two wood catapults, one made by highschool students, and one made by university students. Also, there were two new student project teams, the Sailbot Project and UBC Solar Car Team, and several engineering and geoscience organizations including Odessey of the Mind Program and Sandwell Engineering. A warm thank you goes out to all the volunteers and organizations that went beyond the call of duty of their jobs to promote and enhance our profession. E-fest has proven to be a great opportunity for people in our community to see first-hand how the many facets of engineering and geoscience affect our everyday lives. We could not have done it without the outstanding support from the volunteers.

E-Fest Attendants

1. BC Wood WORKS! Catapult
2. CH2M Hill
3. Division for Advancement of Women in Engineering And Geoscience (DAWEG)
4. Dayton & Knight
5. Engineers Without Borders
6. Gearing Up!
7. Fransen Engineering
8. Mediated Learning Academy
9. National Research Council / Let’s Talk Science
10. Odyssey of the Mind Program
11. PCL Construction Westcoast
12. Read Jones Christoffersen
13. Sandwell
14. Formula UBC
15. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
16. UBC Super Mileage Team
17. UBC Human Powered Submarine
18. UBC Sailbot
19. UBC Solar Power
20. UBC Co-op Program
21. Vancouver Public Library Main Branch

It was a privilege and and honour to organize this event and I hope to see all this year's participants back at next year's E-fest.

Angela Ho
Vice-Chair