Discover what STEM programs and events are available in your community to locate the one that best suits your needs!
Chembassador Chemistry Outreach
UBC Chembassador Chemistry Outreach engages learners through laboratory experiments at UBCO, hands-on kitchen chemistry activities, open house events, and explosive live-action demonstrations.
Computer Science Outreach
Computer Science faculty members and students lead various outreach events that provide hands-on learning experiences with programming and non-screen coding techniques.
iSTAND (integrative STEM Team Advancing Networks of Diversity)
iSTAND at UBCO hosts spring break camps, summer camps, and individual classroom visits in which Grade K-7 students will participate in hands-on activities and encounter design challenges focused on neuroscience, coding, robotics, and broad sciences inclusive of health and health technologies to introduce youth to a variety of STEM concepts and disciplines. In addition to formalized youth outreach programs, iSTAND also supports Science Odyssey Week.
Let’s Talk Science Outreach
Let’s Talk Science Outreach at UBCO is a program connecting educators and youth with outstanding volunteers to deliver a wide variety of meaningful STEM activities for children as young as three years old and youth up to Grade 12.
School of Engineering
School of Engineering at UBCO hosts a variety of programs to foster skills in the applied sciences, develop a love of learning and exploration, and build teamwork capabilities.
UBC Geering Up Engineering Outreach
The Geering Up program at UBCO largely supports engineering, with a back drop to broad science. Geering Up offers innovative and hands-on STEM Summer Camps, Spring Break Camps, After-School Clubs, Day Events, In-School Workshops, Teacher Professional Development, and supplementary outreach to support Science Literacy Week.
Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Mentoring Program
The WiSE Mentoring Program at UBCO was developed to support students as they start to build their careers. Students find mentoring invaluable, but mentors also experience rich and sometimes unexpected benefits.
iSTAND (integrative STEM Team Advancing Networks of Diversity)
iSTAND works closely with profit and not-for-profit partners to bring engaging and informative sessions to academic and non-academic STEM professionals, and develop strategies to ensure regional opportunities for women and other underrepresented persons in STEM fields. Activities focus on teacher engagement for optimizing strategies for all learners, promoting integration and increasing retention rates of women in STEM fields, both within and outside academia. Explore partnership opportunities
UBC Geering Up Engineering Outreach
Geering Up hosts professional development events focused on integrating STEM activities into your classroom! They focus on activities related to the ADST and Science Curriculum. The professional development days will leave you with ideas, inspiration, and resources to further include STEM in your classroom. Learn more about Teacher Pro-D Days
Interested in attending fun and engaging STEM-related events? Explore upcoming camps, outreach events, and/or workshops opportunities with each STEM program in the community. Program updates and developments are also listed below.
UBCO STEM Engagement Day, November 9th 2022:
The UBCO STEM Collaborative includes a variety of organizations housed on the UBCO campus, who are dedicated to providing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education to youth. At least 14 UBCO based STEM organizations/faculties collaborated to welcome grade 3 and 4 classes from across SD22 and SD23 for a day of STEM engagement on November 9, 2022.
WiSE Mentoring
Computer Science Outreach
June 2020: Launch of our computational thinking website. Computational thinking skills are a crucial part of problem solving, scientific inquiry, and coding. Nowadays, there are a lot of research prototypes and commercial products that promote computational thinking. From a teacher’s or a parent’s perspective, how should we choose which resource is best for our children? At UBCO, we launched a website in May 2020 to help guide interested parents and teachers in understanding the different aspects of computational thinking. A key feature of this site is our ongoing evaluation of existing non-screen exercises, toys, and technologies so that our website readers can make more informed choices. Please visit our website and send us feedback!
Chembassadors
iSTAND
iSTAND is excited to be participating in Science Literacy 2022 (September 19-25th) by providing free, STEM engagement experiences to classrooms around the Okanagan! Contact rebecca.mccullough@ubc.ca to learn more and to reserve your spot!
Let’s Talk Science Outreach
Let’s Talk Science is offering virtual and in-person workshops for the 2022-2023 school year. A few of the workshops offered include topics such as marine biology, bacteria, bees, and space! Visit their website to learn more.