Year: 2021
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Invitation to Participate in Research on Inclusion in Informal Education Centres
London Children’s Museum is currently working with a group of PhD students at Western University to support their research project on inclusion in informal learning environments. Here is more information about the study: Hello, My name is Nicole Neil and I am an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario. I have received your email address…
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CASC 2021: Future Imperfect > Call for Learning Session Speakers > DEADLINE April 15, 2021
Join us, June 1-3, 2021, for our first-ever VIRTUAL CONFERENCE! We want you! With your experience and expertise, we can jointly develop an innovative virtual conference experience. We are now looking for people to share their case studies, ideas, and innovations with colleagues from coast to coast to coast. No travel will be required to…
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The country’s largest youth STEM outreach and promotional event is going virtual!
As part of the weeklong 2021 Virtual Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF), STEM Expo enables visiting students and teachers (grades 5-11) to explore STEM exhibits. It is free for all visitors and will take place May 19-21 from 12:00 noon to 3:00pm. We are creating a virtual STEM immersion experience unlike any other and we invite museums and science centres…
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Latest News from CASC: New Opportunities
March 18, 2021 CASC is a platform to share information and build capacity for its members and sector. We are excited to share several federal government grant opportunities uniquely suited to our sector! Over the past year CASC has advocated for new funding programs to support science centres and museums and we’re thrilled to see…
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News from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
The CSA is happy to announce the publication of their first Announcement of Opportunity (AO) to invest in the development, the delivery and the promotion of activities that engage Canadian youth in space-related initiatives. The grants provided through this AO will support initiatives relating to STEM and the Moon that contribute to increased awareness, knowledge…
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Latest News from CASC: Future Imperfect
February 18, 2021 It’s official, the dates for the CASC 2021 virtual conference are set and soon we’ll be announcing the Call for Session Proposals. We missed you last year, but we’re planning on making it up with a 3 day single stream lineup of sessions around 4 sub-themes inspired by our overall conference theme:…
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Museum of Ingenuity J. Armand Bombardier is asking for your help to identify young Canadian inventors (aged 13 to 24) for their Jeunes inventeurs (young inventors) travelling exhibition.
Calling upon everyone, The Museum of Ingenuity J. Armand Bombardier in Valcourt, Quebec, is currently working to organize the Jeunes inventeurs (young inventors) travelling temporary exhibition that will be introduced in the spring of 2022, marking the 100th anniversary of Joseph-Armand Bombardier’s “first invention.” On New Year’s Eve 1922, at the age of 15, he tested his first…
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How Canada’s science centres are fighting COVID-19 misinformation
Using the hashtag #ScienceUpFirst, a coalition of groups that includes the Canadian Association of Science Centres (CASC), COVID-19 Resources Canada and the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta, is circulating its own information that is being carefully vetted by scientists. The focus is on presenting “accessible, shareable, accurate and trustworthy” information – primarily…
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The Canadian Association of Science Centres joined forces with other groups to launch #ScienceUpFirst
With misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccination running rampant in multiple countries, many organizations are also seeing bad information circulate in their own realm and wondering how to stop it. The Canadian Association of Science Centres realized that communication could be its tool in the fight against this insidious problem. “The World Health Organization has declared…