The 2014 joint StarFish Medical-ViVitro Labs Festival of Trees entry celebrates two Christmas holiday icons while adding a medical engineering twist for kids of all ages. Grinch and the long-time board game favorite “Operation” were combined to give a medical twist to the companies’ Christmas tree. 
For over 22 years the Festival of Trees has transformed The Victoria BC Fairmont Empress into a lush forest of beautifully decorated trees to raise funds for BC Children’s Hospital. Local businesses, organizations and individuals decorate the trees in a sometimes wacky, often irreverent, and always beautiful fashion. The trees are displayed throughout the holiday season, beginning November 19, 2014, through to January 6, 2015.
Decked in lab outfits, StarFish-ViVitro design team, Christian McMechan, DeAndra Chmelyk, Debbie Anderson, James Jackson, and Janet Murray, created electro-mechanical magic filled with syringes, gauze, multiple Operation games, a Grinch from the 1980s (thanks, eBay!) and a massive heart. This is the third entry for the team and the second interactive tree.
