This year Camp Squamish took place at the beautiful Cheakamus Center in Squamish, BC. Nestled amongst the forest and river, the students once again took part in a variety of team-building activities and challenges. The 9 teams and their mentors tried their hand at the treasure hunt, writing and performing their team chants, and learning … More Camp Squamish 2019
A look back at our year!
Congratulations to Kevin Yan, who has won the Gold Award as the top Grade 9 student in BC on the Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC) which was written back in November. In addition, Kevin’s score on this challenging Math contest earned him a national Silver Award, as his was the second highest mark for Grade … More BC Gold Award for Grade 9 at 2018 Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge
Let’s cheer Mohammed (Mo) Al-Seragi on as he is going to the Canada Wide Science Fair in Ottawa, May 16-18, 2018 as part of Team BC. He will face off against the best of the best in Canada after winning Gold and the selection at the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair. After winning honorable mention … More Off to Canada Wide Science Fair
Palmer Incentive students continued their winning scientific ways by winning Gold, Bronze and an Honorable Mention, among other awards and prizes. Vivian Tan in grade eight/junior division was an Honorable Mention winner for her “UN Permanent Marker” project while grade nines, Nicolas To and Zechariah Noronha used their “Sticky Situations” to attach themselves to a … More Palmer strikes Gold at Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair 2018
A look back at 2016/2017. Enjoy!
On Tuesday, February 28th, 2017, over 100 Palmer students (joined by a few Grade 7 students who have been attending our Junior Math Club meetings) wrote the annual University of Waterloo Math contests for Grades 8-11 (the Pascal Contest for Grades 8 and 9; Cayley Contest for Grade 10; and Fermat Contest for Grade 11). … More University of Waterloo Math Contests (2017)
Palmer’s two junior Math teams competed at the annual Lower Mainland Regional Math Challengers tournament at UBC on Saturday, February 18th, 2017. After several hours and rounds of problem solving, it proved to be a very successful day as both Palmer teams and a number of our individual students picked up several trophies and medals. The Grade … More Palmer Math Team competes at the Math Challengers Tournament
The longest running Science Fair in Richmond, Palmer’s Science Fair highlighted an amazing number of experiments and inventions. Mohammed Al-Seragi emerged as the top grade 8 with his project to capture toxic lead in water. Do you like tying your laces? If not, then use Nathan Ticman and Nicolas To’ invention to tie them for … More 11th Annual Palmer Science Fair
The Incentive Grade 8, 9 and 10 classes recently returned from our annual Fall retreat, held from Wednesday, October 12th to Friday, October 14th at the Easter Seal camp on the shores of the Squamish River in Brackendale, BC. Throughout the three days, our teaching staff and student campers were treated to a mix of glorious sunshine … More Camp Squamish 2016
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