New STEAM Horizon Awards for high school students
 

NSERC is proud to support the new STEAM Horizon Awards along with Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation Foundation, Shopify, VLN Technologies Inc., Michael Potter and Vintage Wings, Invest Ottawa, CBC and Facebook.

The objective of the awards is to promote the fields of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) to the next generation of scientists and engineers. Up to seven Canadian students will be awarded $25,000 each to pursue studies in a STEAM field. Two of these awards will be given to Indigenous students.

The winners will be flown to Ottawa and recognized at the Foundation’s first annual National Science and Innovation Gala on May 18, 2017.

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For more information or to apply, please visit STEAM Horizon Awards.
Science Odyssey
Ten Days of Discovery and Innovation
May 12 to May 21, 2017
scienceodyssey@nserc-crsng.gc.ca
www.science.gc.ca/scienceodyssey

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Long Ago Yukon will host the second in its 2016-17 SKYPE Speaker Seies at the Beringia Centre this coming Saturday, November 12 at 1 p.m.

Monica Bugbee from the Mammoth Hot Springs site in South Dakota will talk on the ‘Pygmy mammoths of the California Channel Islands’.  Ms Bugbee and a team from Mammoth Hot Springs lead an excavation this past summer on Santa Rosa Island of Santa Barbara, California. Their work yielded a unique mammoth specimen which places their mammoth on the island at about the same time as the Arlington Man believed to be the oldest human remains in North America. This find raises many interesting questions on the evolution and ultimate fate of the last of North America’s mammoths.


Please join Long Ago Yukon at the Beringia Centre for this free event.


Background Information

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/us/mammoth-skull-fossil-found-california/
 

Long Ago Yukon information
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On Monday November 28th between 7 PM and 9 PM @ the Yukon College, Room A2402. Dr. Ian P. Griffin, Director of Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, will give a public lecture and discuss astronomy in New Zealand, the SOFIA observatory, and his native wildlife, such as penguins and albatross.

On Monday, November 14th, between 7 PM and 9 PM @ the Yukon College, Room A2206. The topic for this public lecture will be about packing planets together. Recent surveys looking for exoplanets (planets that orbit stars other than our sun) have found a large number of planetary systems where the planets are placed much closer together than the planets in our solar system are. Dr. Christa Van Laerhoven will talk about what factors go into making a planetary system stable or unstable, explore the limit of how close you can pack planets, and discuss the fate of our solar system. This lecture will not require attendees to have any prior astronomy knowledge.