Designing for the Future, Building Virtual Spaces, Examining the Physical World, and Coding our Lives are this year's workshop themes. And there will be over 36 mentors from a variety of STEAM fields present!
Meet our 2022 Mentors!
Anna Stukas - Mechanical Engineer 
Candace Debacker - Videogame Animator 
Carla Corbett Schiller - Professional Biologist and Environmental Consultant 
Dani Delaoye - Geological Engineer 
Laura Gonzalez - Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering 
Lucy Cornish - Biotechnology 
Maya Kevorkova - Research Project Coordinator 
Marie McCallum - Environmental Scientist 
Megan Pate - Engineer 
Stephanie Geoffrion - Aerospace Engineer 
Katie Allan - Project Manager 
Amanda Koehler - Motorcycle and Power Equipment Technician 
Andrea DePaoli - Sustainability Manager 
Andrea Wilson - Indigenous Relations and Stakeholder Engagement 
Audrey Watt - Construction Engineer 
Carmen Chun - Structural Engineer 
Megan Chambers - Civil Engineer 
Abi Coman-Walker - COO of Acuitas Therapeutics 
Darlene Arriola - User Experience Designer 
Baishakhi Datta - Scientific Management 
Dayna Cassidy - Videogame Producer 
Shannon Foster - Civil Engineering Technologist 
Christine Giusti - Technology Manager 
Imelda Aguilar - Industrial Instrumentation and Automation Technologist and Instrument Mechanic 
Karen Kan - Mining Engineer 
Kathryn Franklin - Geological Engineer 
Anne Lary - Red Seal Electrician, Instructor at BCIT 
Freda Leong - Civil Engineer (Consultant) 
Lisa Hennault - Terrain and River Scientist 
Emily Mee - Geological Engineer 
Phyllis Chong - Structural/Bridge Engineering and Engineering Education 
Erika Schmidt - Geological Engineer 
Sherry Weppler - Research Scientist, Biotech 
Yiming Zhong - Engineering Project Manager 
Vanessa Sharma - Curriculum Coordinator, Training Scheduling
Girls and STEAM Workshops
Designing for the Future
The Berlinguette Group at UBC: This electrochemistry workshop will show participants how we can use household items to create electricity to power LED lights. The workshop will include an introduction to basic electrochemistry, how to design an electrochemical cell, a hands-on cell build, and a friendly LED light up competition.
SCWIST (Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology): Participants will learn about the history of animation and phenakistoscope’s role in the development of animation as we know it today. They will also learn about optical illusions and how the eye processes images and optical illusions.
Constructing Virtual Spaces
BGC Engineering: Join engineers and geoscientists to explore an applied earth science response to an atmospheric river event. In this interactive workshop, participants will get to view the event in hologram scenes in 3D. They will also use commonly available materials to demonstrate how flooding, land sliding, and erosional processes work.
Examining the Physical World
UBC Let’s Talk Science: The Animals and Ecosystems workshop explores the needs of living things in the physical world. Participants will physically create a food web, test various adaptations animals have, and apply the learned concepts to create a “super animal” with adaptations to help it survive in a specific habitat.
Coding our Lives
Genome BC: How is DNA decoded to make proteins? How do mutations in DNA impact organisms? In this activity, participants will follow instructions to construct a LEGO contraption that draws patterns as it moves. Decoding 2D information and translating it into a 3D form helps to model the biological process of protein synthesis.
Best Buy Canada: Fun with Robotics is a hands-on course that gets youth up and excited about robotics! The workshop starts with an interactive introduction to programming languages and block programming. Participants will then work together to complete as many challenges with their robots as possible. These challenges are a series of physical courses mapped out on the floor.