Technology & Engineering

Make and test a model paddle boat and learn about potential and kinetic energy.

Scientists are training artificial intelligence to diagnose injuries using x-rays and other medical imagery of you (and millions of others). What improvements and other changes might this bring to the health care system?

Manufacturing and engineering airplane tires is important work! Learn how airplane tires keep the aircraft safe during takeoff and landing.

Students identify and sort objects, including fasteners, according to material and purpose.

Gamma rays might make you think of cancer, harmful radiation or superheroes. But gamma rays have lots of uses: food safety, manufacturing and even medicine!

In this challenge activity discover how one piece of paper can go a long way. It's time to think outside the box!

Try your hand at building a “super coaster” using materials around your home.

Explore the forces of gravity and buoyancy while designing a raft to hold the most weight possible.

Can you think like an engineer? Try to solve a tricky size and shape problem in this activity.

You don’t have to pedal harder to go faster. You just have to understand a little bit about gravity, drag and friction!

Use a pop bottle and other everyday materials to create a rocket that you can launch outdoors.

Students will work collaboratively to design and build models of seeds that can travel as far as possible.

Students will work collaboratively to design and build a simple irrigation system that transports water to at least two plants from one source without leaking.

In 2013, many Europeans learned their beef lasagnas were actually made of horse meat. Learn about food fraud, and how a Canadian invention can help detect it.

The human eye lets us see the world by sending impulses to our nervous system. In many ways, it is very similar to other optical devices, including cameras.