Science North to host Iron Science competition

The search is on for the best, or at least the most entertaining and creative, science teachers in Canada, said a news release.

Science North will play host to the Iron Science Ontario Regional competitions on Nov. 3.

Winners of this event will go on to compete in the national Iron Science competition to be held at the University of Calgary on Nov. 22.

Jay Ingram, host of the popular Discovery Channel show Daily Planet will also moderate the national event.

Iron Science is a Canada-wide challenge and is formatted similar to the famous Iron Chef television series. Four-person teams will endeavour to create spectacular and imaginative feats of science and engineering, all before a live audience. Of course, just like the television show, the teams will also have to incorporate a "special ingredient" into their projects-one that could, with some modification of course, be used in an actual classroom.

There will be various regional competitions in this Canada-wide challenge. Team entries for the regional event at Science North in Sudbury will soon be available on-line at http://ironscience.ca and will be accepted beginning Sept. 1. The deadline for entry is Monday, Sept. 24.

The national competition will include regional winners from across the country, and will be streamed over the internet by the Discovery Channel at http://Discoverychannel.ca .