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Racing for Ocean Science and Youth Engagement: Insights from the Youth Ocean Summit, Aarhus, Denmark

Vikas Nath Communication, Education and Outreach, Physics and Astronomy
Artash Nath. Founder. MonitorMyOcean.com, Grade 11 Student. Toronto Giving a talk on the rise in underwater noise levels in global oceans I was honoured to be a RISE delegate sponsored by the 11th Hour Racing at the Ocean Youth Summit held in Aarhus, Denmark, from 30 May to 2 June 2023. 11th Hour Racing uses...

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Canada-Wide Science Fair 2023: Winning the Best of the Fair Award (Innovation), Gold Medal, Best of Category, Youth Can Innovate, Excellence in Astronomy and Actuarial Foundation Award for Planetary Defense and Measuring the Success of Asteroid Deflection

Vikas Nath Communication, Education and Outreach, Physics and Astronomy
Arushi Nath, Grade 8 Student, Toronto The 2023 Canada-Wide Science Fair (CWSF) took place in Edmonton, Alberta, from May 14 to 19, 2023. It was the first in-person event since 2019 because of the pandemic. The 61st edition of the national science fair brought together some 396 regional science fair finalists from 7th to 12th...

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This is Why … Giraffes and Garlic Bulbs Share a Mathy Secret

jomeara Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science, Physics and Astronomy
What do giraffe spots, garlic bulbs, tree canopies, and ice formations all have in common? They are just a few gorgeous examples of Voronoi patterns, also known as Thiessen polygons or Dirichlet tessellations. I’ve been thinking about Voronoi patterns a lot lately because they have inspired our architecture friends in their visualizations of the science...

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’Exploration of M31 via Black Hole Slingshots’ …

Pauline Barmby Communication, Education and Outreach, Physics and Astronomy
Happy 2023! Amazingly enough, the blog machinery still works after several idle years. This post and the next are about a preprint posted on arxiv, back in October: Andrew Gould’s “Exploration of M31 via Black Hole Slingshots and the ‘Intergalactic Imperative”. This paper is a fascinating mix of garden-variety astrophysics and wild speculation that I...

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University of Toronto St. George Research Exploration Opportunity

STEM Fellowship General Science, Physics and Astronomy, Science in Society
The Research Exploration Opportunity program, coordinated by the University of Toronto St. George STEM Fellowship Branch, provides high school students with the opportunity to experience cutting-edge research in a university laboratory. This one-week program runs during the 2022 March Break and enables students to explore the world of research, be immersed in the process of...

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