Photo Gallery

Honorable Garry Good year with Camper

Minister of Science and Technology Garry Goodyear came to Science AL!VE to announce the 2010 NSERC Promoscience Award winners (including ACTUA). He then came to the Quark camp to meet with the kids!

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Minister of Science and Technology Garry Goodyear came to Science AL!VE to announce the 2010 NSERC Promoscience Award winners ... including ACTUA!

Honorable Garry Good year and quark!

Minister of Science and Technology Garry Goodyear came to Science AL!VE to announce the 2010 NSERC Promoscience Award winners (including ACTUA). He then came to the Quark camp to meet with the kids!

Super Strength

Lifting up a pumice rock!

Lego Robotics

Electron Campers built and programmed their own Lego Robots!

Magic is Science!

Haida Gwaii campers holding up invisible beads made of sodium alginate!

Magnets and Electricity

Ion Campers exploring how a magnet through a ring of wire can make electricity.

Magnet Pencil

The animal on the end of this quarker's pencil is bouncing because of repelling magnets!

Tech Camp

Tech camper is getting help soldering her circuitry project together

Science Shows

A flaming demonstration to start off the day!

BUGS

He's ready to go out and catch some insects!

Motors

Proudly showing off their motorized mini cranes!

Circuitry

Getting help soldering a circuitry project together

friends at camp

Holding their electric toothbrushes infront of the chemistry project!

Quark camp

Working on his home-made electric toothbrush

Rockets

Launching himself at the bottle launcher for this rocket!

Pollinators

Dr. Elle showing the AL!VE girls some different species of bees

Chemistry

Dr. Tim Storr getting assistance from an Electron camper to perform an experiment

Nature Walk

Dr. Elizabeth Elle on a nature walk with the AL!VE girls teaching them about some of the plants in SFU's forest

Aquarium

Exploring invertabrates at the aquarium during the AL!VE girls sleepover

Chemistry in Haida Gwaii

Growing crystals in Haida Gwaii

On the Beach

Haida Gwaii camper on the beach at Haida Gwaii

Tidal pools

Exploring what crustations, invertabrates and even vertabrates live in the tiny tidal pools on the beach in Haida Gwaii

Growing Gases!

Producing a gas in an erlenmeyer flask to blow up a balloon

Archeology

One of our quark campers looking at fossils

Colourful Chemistry

This Electron camper is showing off the solution he made during a chemistry scavenger hunt!

Unpopable Bubble

This bubble is made from the gas given off from dry ice. The bubble solution is a special formula that makes in extra hard to pop!

Engineering

A tech camper and the crane apparatus, complete with motors, that he engineered.

Planning and Engineering

Drafting out a bridge that this Ion camper is going to build

Engineers without borders

Working on a water filtration system with a Engineers without borders volunteer

Bridges

Working on a bridge these Ion campers designed and built

Quark Camp

Quark campers try on some safety equiptment!

Van de Graph Generator

The shocking power of static electricity

Dissecting

Our Nebula Girls begining to disect a sheep eyeball

Sheep Eyes

Exploring the insides of a sheep eyeball

Disecting the eye

After some disecting has been done the girls can really see some of the different parts of the eye

Disecting a Chicken foot

Electron Campers are learning about tendons by seeing them first hand in a chicken's foot!

Making the first incision

This campers is getting ready to make a y shaped incision in the chicken foot

Gross but cool!

This campers is tentatively getting ready to use his scalpel and scissors!

Curl your Chicken Toes

Instructor Nigel is making sure this camper can pull on the tendons to get the chicken toes to curl!

Blood Typing

Surrey campers studying their well plate trying to figure out what type of fake blood they have.

Cheek Cells under a microscope

This camper is looking at his own cheek cells under a microscope in Surrey Camp

3-D photos

Instructor Ciara is working with the camper on the 3-D photo he made on the computer.

Candy Dispensers

Tech campers showing off the gears in their home made Nerd dispnsers. (We thought it was the most appropriate candy for science camp!)

Working on the Nerd Dispenser

Instructor Amanda is helping this camper with her candy dispenser

Camp budies and Jitter Bots

These Quark campers have made friends as well as jitter-bots. They hooked up the circuit and made the motor off balance to make it vibrate across the table.

Looking at the Fish!

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Lego

This camper and his Lego Robot are about to attempt to maneuver through cardiac valley!

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Gel Electrophoresis

These campers are learning how to use micro pipettes and setting up a gel electrophoresis .

Setting up a Gel electrophoresis

This camper is focused on setting up her gel run!

Sample from Dr. Mike Hart

This Quark camper holding up a sample during a mentor event with Dr. Mike Hart. A biology prof here at SFU.

Moon Snail

This camper is showing off a moon snail shell. Did you know that a moon snail has a radula which is like their tounge. It's hard rough and feels raspy...pretty cool for a sea snail.

Inside a shell

These campers are holding up a cross section of a shell. Did you know that there are mathematical patterns in the spacing of the segments?

They'll never leave you hanging.

These Ion campers made their own motoroized high-five-inators...they'll never leave you hanging!

Engineering Towers

This camper is working on the foundation of his popscicle stick tower. The goal is to make it at least as high as the instructors waist.

Towers

These campers are all working together to engineer their tower as tall as possible.

Tall towers

This tower is super tall and the designers may have had some inspiration from the leanind tower of Pisa