Learning Exchange

Run in partnership with the UBC Learning Exchange Trek Program, we have two programs which aim to enrich science education at elementary and secondary schools in the inner city.

SMaRT (Scientific Method and Research Training)

Running throughout the spring (February, March, April), LTS and Learning Exchange volunteers are grouped into "pods" to visit elementary school classrooms at Laura Secord, Nightingale, and Strathacona. These "SMaRTies" then teach concepts of the scientific method through hands-on activities!

Think: lots of fun building rockets, extracting DNA, learning about chromatography with candy, swabbing for bacteria, and colloidal dispersions!

Britannia & Templeton Science Fair Mentorship

Occuring in the winter (December-February), In this mentoring program, graduate students lead over a group of high school students and with the help of undergraduate volunteers work with Grade 8 - 10 students to help them plan, develop, conduct and interpret their science fair projects.

After months of hard work, the program ends with Science Fairs and both schools where high students have the opportunity to showcase their work and Mentors act as Judges!

Top projects from these fairs will move on to the District Science Fair held in March.