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A poster for the French and Dutch language versions of the British science fiction film Moon Zero Two.

Social Science & Culture

The first Western movie set on the Moon: Moon Zero Two, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Howdy again, my reading friend, and… I see a hand waving through the fog of space and time. You have a question? Yes, you are indeed correct. James Olson, the somewhat colourless American actor who played William H. “Bill” Kemp, the antihero of the British science fiction movie Moon Zero Two mentioned in the first part of this article, also starred in The Andromeda Strain, an American classic science fiction film first shown in March 1971. And yes, the Hungarian born British actress who played

A poster for the British science fiction film Moon Zero Two.

Social Science & Culture

The first western movie set on the Moon: Moon Zero Two, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Howdy, my reading friend. How do you do? Yours truly has a bit of an oddball / incongruous movie for you this week. You see, Moon Zero Two was / is a British science fiction film whose premiere took place, you guessed it, in the month of October. Can you figure out in which year said premiere took place? Given the look of the poster, including the, err, scantily clad female characters, you presume that Moon Zero Two did not hit the silver screen in 1949 or 1959? Very good. Perhaps 1969, you say

A woman's outstretched hand holds a ballot over a ballot box.

Social Science & Culture

Cast your vote to make the Ingenium Channel Canada’s favourite science blog!

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Ready, set...vote! The Ingenium Channel has landed on the short list for the 2019 People’s Choice Award: Canada’s Favourite Science Blog. “We’re thrilled to see that the Channel is getting noticed,” says Brian Dawson, chief digital officer at Ingenium — Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation. “Through our colourful range of blog posts and articles, the Channel takes readers behind the scenes of our three national museums, and features the human stories behind Canadian innovations.” Popular

A young girl wearing headphones closes her eyes as she rests on a red cushion.

Social Science & Culture

Museum of Surrey seeks to incorporate sensory-friendly spaces

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The city of Surrey is hiring two young people with autism to help create sensory-friendly spaces. Read more from CBC about how the Museum of Surrey is incorporating low sensory products to help make spaces more accessible.

1) A futuristic-looking young woman reaches out to touch a glowing blue screen in front of her.

Social Science & Culture

How to Think Like a Futurist

Rachelle Fournier

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

What will life be like in 2050? This was just one of the big questions that Rachelle Fournier, Manager of Exhibition Projects at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, grappled with last month. Fournier took part in an intensive, two-day advanced leadership program in Ottawa called, “Thinking Like a Futurist: Navigating Complex Futures,” led by Dawn Nicholson-O’Brien, an expert on governance and innovation in the digital age. Following the program, Fournier caught up with Dawn Nicholson-O’Brien

Rob Bell and Tyya Strutt share their award-winning 2019 Defining Moments Canada project: “The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Changing the Future through History – The defining Moments” on May 11, 2019, at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. Photo by Sonia Mendes, Ingenium Canada.

Young students bring forgotten stories of the Spanish flu back to life

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Through her school’s award-winning history project on the Spanish Flu pandemic, 11-year-old Tyya Strutt learned a somber truth. “Most people who die in times of terrible events or peril are never remembered, especially if they are children,” says Strutt. “But this is not right."

Two young girls stand in front of their research display about Elsie MacGill.

Engineering & Technology

International Women in Engineering Day: Remembering Elsie MacGill

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In honour of International Women in Engineering Day (June 23), the Ingenium Channel sat down with two spirited young women to discuss their research project about Elsie MacGill. Karen Wang (Grade 8) and Gloria Pan (Grade 9) — students at Cedarview Middle School and Colonel By Secondary School respectively — recently presented their project to visitors at the Canadian War Museum. The young women were among students from eight Ottawa-area schools that converged at the museum for a student

A group of high school students smile as they pose with their winning project in a school classroom. Most of the students are standing against a blackboard, while a few students closer to the camera sit in chairs, as they hold up different elements of the group project.

The Spanish Flu: Honouring Canada’s lost voices through digital storytelling

Kathryn Whitfield

Northview Heights Secondary School

“Coordination, Capacity-Building, and Communication.” Not only is this the title for the Northview Heights students’ award-winning digital storytelling submission for the Recovering Canada contest about the Spanish Influenza; it also describes how we worked as a classroom community to put our entire project together. The educational approach Located in North York, Ontario, Northview Heights Secondary School is a culturally and ethnically-diverse school where many students study in specialized

A pin with the words ‘Science Needs Women’ being held up in front of a Women in STEM Poster of Irene Ayako Uchida.

Wikipedia edit-a-thons give recognition to women in STEM

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

On June 23 — which marks International Women in Engineering Day 2019 — Ingenium will open its doors to volunteer editors eager to participate in a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. In partnership with Engineers Canada, this free event, hosted at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, will celebrate the achievements of women in engineering through the editing and creation of Wikipedia pages. “An edit-a-thon puts facts on the page, allows us to change biases, and adding translations in both French and English

A black-and-white image of a young boy standing next to his hovercraft.

Social Science & Culture

Writer seeks a lift for his Shropshire hovercraft research

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Aviation and space curator Rénald Fortier, known for his quirky and conversational blog posts on the Ingenium Channel, recently piqued the interest of a UK-based journalist. Fortier contacted the Shropshire Star in the hopes of finding out more information about a hovercraft maker from the 60s, so Toby Neal decided to share his plight with readers of the newspaper.

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