More than 1,200 grade eight students from across the province took part in SciTrek '98 on October 28 and 29. The unique event was hosted as part of Canada's Health Research Awareness Week, and offered the students a chance to go behind the scenes at various health research locations: the Laboratory Centres for Disease Control, the Federal Laboratories, the Bannatyne Campus, the National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics, the St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre, and the Fort Garry Campus. On November 1, the event was opened to the public.