Igniting scientific curiosity

Our workshops open the wonders of science and engineering to everyone, foster environmental stewardship, and encourage children to discover how science is used in their everyday world.

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How Our Workshops and Programs Work

Browse the catalogue and choose a topic.

Choose your preferred date and book your workshop.

Receive Mini Science Bags and distribute to children.

On your scheduled date, connect to our presenter live via Microsoft Teams.

Watch the wonder and joy, as your students become scientists!

Our virtual classroom workshops bring:

  • Individually packaged investigative materials provided in advance.
  • Fun and engaging investigations that build critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills.
  • The opportunity to highlight STEM careers and pathways to children.
  • Dynamic presenters who are scientists, engineers, and technologists.
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What Makes Scientists in School Experiences Highly Impactful

  • We offer highly investigative and engaging experiences with plentiful curated materials for children to explore.
  • Our presenters have academic or professional backgrounds in STEM.
  • To extend your workshop, we offer STEM resources on our website at no cost. Educators receive post-workshop extension packages to help extend learning long after your workshop ends!
  • We’re a charity! Our amazing donors subsidize all of our workshops.
  • Since 1989, we have inspired over 10 million children across Canada.
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Our Equity Initiatives

A prosperous and innovative Canada is one where every voice is represented in our workforce, research and scientific discoveries. In order to achieve this vision of a better, more inclusive STEM workforce in Canada, we must develop confidence and heighten critical thinking skills in our youngest citizens at an early age, regardless of their socioeconomic status. We recognize that our user fee, which covers our costs of providing over 25,000 investigative workshops annually, presents a barrier for schools serving low-income communities to access our

workshops for all of their classrooms. In 2016, we created a roadmap to achieve a vision of no child being left behind. Together with our donors, we are working to reach our goals through our Adopt-a-School model. We are constantly looking for new partners to work with to achieve a bigger vision than our current 10-20% annual pool of complimentary workshops for deserving schools. Currently over 30% of our program participants attend schools where average parental incomes are below $60,000. We are working hard to change that so that no child is left behind.

Our Commitment to Equity

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Testimonials

“The best part of our science program is when we engage students in Scientists in School’s highly engaging and hands-on workshops. My students loved their Strong Structures workshop and kept building structures at home. It definitely ignites the spark of curiosity in them.”
– Grade 3 Teacher after a Strong Structures virtual workshop
“My daughter enjoyed this very much, told everyone she could about the experiments she did. As a parent it allowed me to see how interested she is in science and doing more.”
– A Parent after a Candy Chemistry virtual workshop
Scientists in School gives students an incredible opportunity to engage with science in ways that are not always possible within a regular classroom. The presenters are knowledgeable and effective. I have had Scientists in School in my classroom for many years, and my students always come out of the presentations eager to learn more. I would recommend Scientists in School to every classroom teacher to enhance their science programs, and encourage budding scientists!
– Grade 5 Teacher after an Energy: The Power to Change in-person workshop
“Our children always enjoy the science activities. Thank you so much! They always want to continue experimenting after the program has finished. Thank you for inspiring the scientist in us all.”
– A Parent after a Good Clean Fun! virtual workshop
“This was such a wonderful experience for our class. They were very engaged for the entire time. As their educator, I loved that I could see their wonder and natural curiosity emerge during the experiments.”
– Kindergarten Teacher after a Sticky Science virtual workshop
“Scientists in School is amazing! We have been involved in many different workshops over the years and have always found them to be so engaging and exciting for the children. The presenters are always friendly and patient with the children and the resources they bring to explore are awesome. We always look forward to our visit each year. Keep up the amazing work you do with children to foster a love of science and exploration!”
– Kindergarten Teacher after a Young Friends of the Earth in-person workshop
“Scientists in School helped me greatly when finding my passion for engineering. The initial introduction to all of the cool things that you can do in science helped me find a passion for it at a young age…Seeing that most of the scientists were also female helped me as well, as it made me realize that it is a completely normal thing for a woman to be in STEM.”
– Natalie, Mechanical Engineering student at Ontario Tech University
“Before Scientists in School, I didn’t know what STEM was. After, I got interested in robotics. In Grade 8, I started a robotics league with my classmates…and then I went straight into First Robotics in high school.”
– Grade 12 Male Student, 2019 Interview from our 6-Year Longitudinal Study
“It was the workshop Close Encounters of a Chemical Kind. It instilled in me this love of chemistry and I do feel this is the reason that I like chemistry so much today. The fact that I was exposed to it in Grade 7 made me more enthusiastic in Grade 9 when we started encountering it.”
— Grade 11 Female Student, 2019 Interview from our 6-Year Longitudinal Study

10 Million Young Scientists Inspired Since 1989

Impact Story : Nicholas, Engineering Science student at the University of Toronto

“In all of these investigations, I felt a sense of wonder instilled in me by the program. I was always excited going into Scientists in School, as I knew I would learn so much more about what I had observed on my own in the outside world. From analyzing the construction of insects to the physics of simple machines, my curiosity was always reinforced by the omnipresent sense of wonder I felt while completing that day’s experiments and activities.”

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