www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday February 20, 2008 - 9 Halton Engineering Challenge set for March 1 The handiwork of some budding professional engineers will be on display at a local school next month. Grade 8 students from the Halton Catholic and public school boards with a penchant for and an interest in designing and building mechanical objects will be congregating at John T. Tuck Public School on Saturday, March 1 for an annual practical competition. After months of design work and preparation, teams of students will bring the robotic arms that they have designed with teachers and local professional engineers to compete in the 15th Halton Engineering Challenge. It will be staged at Tuck elementary, 3365 Spruce Ave., from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. The Halton Engineering Challenge is a cooperative initiative between business and education that was developed by Halton teachers and local professional engineers. The challenge is designed to address many of the knowledge, skills and application expectations of the Grade 8 Fluids and Mechanical Efficiency units found in the Ontario curriculum. The Grade 8 students work in teams of four to apply the knowledge and skills learned in class to an authentic engineering problem presented by Meritor Suspension Systems Company and the Professional Engineers of Ontario. The students are required to construct a hydraulic robotic arm that is capable of transporting miniaturized automotive coils, based on the coil manufacturing process at the MSSC automotive plant in Milton. Engineering students from McMaster University will be on hand to run and judge the engineering Olympics. DiDonato said five Catholic schools and eight public schools from Halton are expected to compete; the schools each send up to three separate teams comprised of four students. The competition is judged on an individual team's performance of required tasks. MSSC is donating a full computer system to the host school of the event. Other sponsors of the challenge include the Professional Engineers of Ontario, Hamilton Chapter, the Halton Catholic and public school boards and McMaster University's Faculty of Engineering. The event is open for viewing only to the family and friends of the student and teacher participants. Your Pool Is Our Reputation BOOKING SPRING INSTALLS NOW! Call for your appointment 905-304-4774 or www.uniquepools.ca 1-866-929-4774 Vision To be the most livable town in Canada PUBLIC WORKSHOP -- UPTOWN CORE STUDY March 4, 2008 7 9 p.m. Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Trafalgar Room File#: 42.15.35 You are invited to attend this public meeting to discuss the opportunities and constraints of future development in the Uptown Core as it relates to land use, infrastructure, urban design and transportation. Input gathered from this initial meeting will be used to inform new Official Plan policies, a new transportation plan for the area, future infrastructure improvements, and implementation mechanisms that will guide future land use and development processes. The primary study area covers the portion of the Uptown Core west of Trafalgar Road. It includes the lands bounded by Trafalgar Road, Dundas Street, Sixth Line and Glenashton Drive. You may view planning documents and background material at the Planning Services Department at Town Hall between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Questions or written submissions may be directed to Ita Waghray at Planning Services Department, Town of Oakville, P.O. Box 310, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON L6J 5A6 or by telephone at 905-845-6601, extension 3264, or by email at: iwaghray@oakville.ca. The personal information accompanying your submission is being collected under the authority of the Planning Act and may form part of the public record which may be released to the public. Questions about this collection should be directed to the Records and Freedom of Information Officer at 905-815-6053. Dated at the Town of Oakville this 20th day of February, 2008.