Open day at city school exhibits students’ creativity.

Every year, educational institutions hold open days to encourage creativity and boost school profile. Today the students and staff of Edward P. Yorke High School organised an event that was both informative and interesting. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports.

Karen Canto, Head of Science Dept., E.P. Yorke
“We’re highlighting the students’ work over the past year, projects. They are also doing presentations. If you guys were earlier today they did dramas based on their books that they’re reading in literature, like The Crysalids, Macbeth and others.”

Kendra Griffith, Reporting
While we missed the drama, there were plenty of other things to see at E.P. Yorke’s Expo … The event even included a walk through a mock rainforest, which featured a turtle and an owl. In the science lab, we found a “shocking vibes” display comprising of a dynamo and electrostatic machine. Second form student Hubert Gillett explained the theory behind the show.

Hubert Gillett, Student, E.P. Yorke
“This is actually similar to a light bulb, but to the end it produces static electricity, so it could pass it through. It noh hurt, you could try it.”

“This is the dynamo. Underneath you have a strong magnet and a magnetic coil. And when you spin this anticlockwise, you actually could feel the charge passing through.”

Kendra Griffith
“In other words it shocks you?”

Hubert Gillett
“Yes, it shocks.”

Kendra Griffith
“Does it hurt?”

Hubert Gillett
“Yes ma’am—well noh really, you just feel it di pass through.”

But to be sure third former Vince Castillo’s pet project was a highlight of the expo. Castillo constructed a spud missile, which he fashioned using P.V.C. pipes, a house lighter, hairspray, and a potato.

Castillo says he got the idea for the projectile while watching the Discovery Channel.

Vince Castillo
“The hairspray is like potential energy, what you just saw is a sign of kinetic energy, meaning that the hairspray ignites due to that it could catch flames quick enough and it shoots it out.”

Head of the Science Department, Karen Canto, says the expo doubles as a way of marketing the institution.

Karen Canto
“It’s one of our ways to sell our school for lack of a better description, to promote E.P. Yorke. We are one of the competing high schools in the city academically and otherwise and we have a lot of primary school students coming through today to hopefully stir their appetites, desires to come here to E.P. Yorke. That’s one of our main goals really.”

The school also held a Career Day alongside their expo with invited professionals making presentations to students throughout the day. Kendra Griffith reporting for News Five.