Forget the bumpy bus ride — now you can take a science-themed field trip right from your home or classroom.

Calling all bright, young minds: Applications are now open for the 2021 Ingenium-NSERC STEAM Horizon Awards.

When the global COVID-19 pandemic struck, two Stanford University Computer Science professors decided to engage in a unique experiment; offer 10,000 students from all over the world the opportunity to learn to code using Python — online, for free.

Looking for some inspiration to jump-start learning at home or through your virtual classroom? The education team at the Canada Science and Technology Museum has gathered some of our favourite links to educational, playful, and hands-on resources — which can be done online or offline. We’ve divided the resources into suggested age groups (but note there are overlaps): 5+ 8+ We’ve also separated them into categories: Science experiments Computer skills Creation challenges Applications Lectures

Looking for a great educational tool to teach students about dairy farming and where food comes from? The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to develop “Explore a Dairy Farm,” a virtual reality (VR) expedition available through the Google Expeditions app.

It’s hard to tune out a science lesson when there’s a chicken on your desk. Thanks to a new mobile education program from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, teachers in the Ottawa area can bring a bit of farm life — and a lot of excitement — right into the classroom.

Field trip planning just got a whole lot easier. Thanks to the power of virtual reality, teachers based anywhere in the world can now take their students on an educational tour of the dairy barn at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum — which is also a working farm in Ottawa, Canada. The museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to develop “Explore a Dairy Farm,” a virtual reality (VR) expedition available through the Google Expeditions app. Nadine Dagenais Dessaint, who works as an

A new program at the Canada Science and Technology Museum is getting youth excited about science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM). Launched last fall, the STEAM Effect Project provides a cost-free opportunity for youth (ages 12 to 17) who do not usually participate in after-school programs, and who don’t seem themselves represented in the fields of STEAM. “In our first session, the participants made propeller cars, they made bridges out of K’Nex and tested to see which would hold