We love an in-class Science Fair! 🗣️📢 Big shout out to Science Teachers Rose Ngo and Zak Molls at Banting Middle School who reached out for support with their class fair. Give us a shout if you are curious about how we can help class Science Fairs! Links are in our bio! 🔗

@SpaceCentreYVR is a unique #Vancouver institution where thousands of families & #Canadians can learn more about the wonders of science and 🪐. That’s why today I was proud to announce we’re supporting upgrading this amazing place with $350,000.

Transforming Science Fairs: A Blueprint for Accessibility and Inclusivity | by ⁦@michaeljunger⁩ of ⁦@sciencefairsbc⁩ #bctech techcouver.com/2024/02/02/tr…

Ask our astronomer! Today! Join us for the next installment of our "Ask an Astronomer" live stream series on YouTube. After a short presentation on current events in space news and astronomy there will be time to answer your questions. Streaming Link: ow.ly/hIS550Qg4SK

Join us for a live Q and A at 4:00pm on December 14th with special guest Breanna Crompvoets from the University of Victoria. Breanna's research focuses on how stars form, and what criteria need to be met to create a star. YouTube: ow.ly/2GE850QaQQE

Young Innovators all across BC have been working hard to find solutions to today's challenges. With your votes, one project from each age category will win the title of People's Choice and receive a small cash prize! Vote below: forms.office.com/pages/respo…

The passion for science and tech is in every corner of the country! 🔬❤️ On the latest episode of Let's Innovate, @michaeljunger is joined by Ziad Sahid of @techyukon Listen to the full Let’s Innovate episode wherever you get your podcasts.

What's the judging criteria for YIS 2022? @michaeljunger breaks down the four categories for judging; creativity, communication, engagement and difficulty. #STEM #STEMeducation #STEMforKids #STEMlearning #STEAM

Have you heard of our Science Club? Join @michaeljunger and Gerry Gourlay as they look to help you get started on your science fair project. Visit the link provided to register for FREE today: eventbrite.ca/e/science-club… #STEM #STEMeducation #STEMforKids

Challenges during your science fair project can be a rollercoaster. 🎢 Andre Marti, Platinum Award winner at @ysc_sjc joined the podcast to talk about his personal project on diabetes. #stem #stemproject #stemeducation #diabetes

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees: 1. Temperature Control One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%. 2. Noise Reduction Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter. 3. Air Purity Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner. 4. Oxygen And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem. 5. Water Management Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply. 6. Psychological Health Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense. 7. Physical Health Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities. 8. Privacy A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy. 9. Economics The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier. 10. Wildlife Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects. 11. Light Pollution Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees. 12. Aesthetics And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers. Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs. Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on. There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.