AL!VE Girls Programs!

Science AL!VE offers a variety of girls only programs including a year-round girls club, two weeks of girls only camp, and Girls Sleepovers! Science AL!VE offers girls-only programs as part of its ongoing mandate to increase female interest and participation in the fields of Science and Technology. Presently, females are under-represented in the Science and Technology workforce, as well as in Science AL!VE’s summer camp programs. Our science programs for girls is an effort to provide girls with positive role models and hands-on experience, as well as confidence and inspiration in Science and Technology.

AL!VE Girls Science Clubs

AL!VE Girls is Science AL!VE’s science, engineering and technology club for girls! And we have some every exciting news, we are expanding our AL!VE Girls Club! Now girls in grades 2 through 7 are able to join and we are increasing the number of meetings! Science AL!VE will be having TWO AL!VE Girls Clubs; AL!VE Girls Junior for grades 2 through 4 and AL!VE Girls Senior for grades 5 through 7. Participants from both the AL!VE Girls clubs will meet at the same time and locations. They will participate in dynamic labs and activities specialized for their respective age groups, as well as have large joint projects all together!

AL!VE Girls meets bi-weekly on Saturdays. Members will join Science AL!VE female instructors for activities or presentations from female scientists in the SFU science labs and campus facilities, or for science-related field trips throughout the lower mainland. The focus of the meetings will be on exploration of the fascinating world of Science, Engineering and Technology through hands-on activities, take-home projects and presentations given by enthusiastic female scientists. Girls can participate in one or both the Fall and Spring Sessions.

Activities and field-trips could include:

• Make your own bouncy ball!
• Gel electrophoresis
• Entomology lab workshop and a trip to the Honey Bee Centre
• Exploring a chocolate factory and the science of chocolate
• Robotics and electronics projects
• Lots more

Registration for the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 AL!VE Girls Clubs is now Open

Also, check out our BRAND NEW Lab Rats Science Club for boys and girls.

Lab Rats will run on alternate Saturdays to the AL!VE Girls Club, and will cover similar curriculum and topics to the girls club, although these activities will be adapted to suit the co-ed audience. For more information, or to download the registration form, please click here.

Sleepovers

AL!VE Girls Summer Sleepover 2010 - Registration is Open!

The annual AL!VE Girls sleepover is happening this August!

The girls will get to spend one night exploring beautiful marine ecosystems at the Vancouver Aquarium, including visiting an invertebrate lab, before settling down to sleep with the whales or dolphins. Then we return to SFU for hands-on projects and activities relation to marine biology, ecology, and technology.

This sleepover weekend is a chance to explore science, engineering and technology, while being in a unique all-girl environment. The sleepover combines the science and fun of our workshops and summer camps with the chance to explore science that is restricted to night time. The sleepovers are open to all girls currently completing grades 4 to 7. Please check out the Information Brochure below for more details on this program. This weekend is sure to fill up fast so please send in your completed registration forms as soon as possible.

• Ages: Girls who have completed grades 4 to 7
• Date: August 6th - 8th 2010
• Times: 7:30pm Friday-10am Sunday
• Location: Vancouver Aquarium and Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
• Cost: $135.00

At the sleepover participants will:

• Visit a marine invertabrate lab
• Explore several different marine ecosystems
• Sleepover at the Vancouver Aquarium with the whales or dolphins
• Engineer a model of an automated marine exploration vehicle
• and much more!

*Partial bursaries may be available. Please contact us for more information.