Tyler Morhart (he/him)
Career Profiles
Scientist, Beamline Responsible - SyLMAND
Genevieve Ellis (she/her)
Career Profiles
Journey Person Boilermaker & Welding Supervisor
How could you build a refracting telescope using water as the lenses?
Hands-on Activities
Build your own refracting telescope using glasses of water as the lenses.
Let's Talk Space Exploration Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources to develop background knowledge on the topic of space exploration.
Monitoring the Ocean with Radar
Backgrounders
Learn about how a special type of radar helps monitor and protect Canada’s oceans.
Making Waves with Radar
Backgrounders
Learn about how the radar works, the history and its many real life applications.
Strange Shapes in the Sky: Stealth and Flying Wings
Backgrounders
Learn about how and why engineers designed and built some very unique aircraft.
Xiaoyi Bao
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Let's Talk Lunar Resources
Backgrounders
Discover some background information on how we'll learn to live and work on the Moon - and beyond!
Light and Sound Inventions that Changed the World
Lessons
Students will explore the societal impacts of inventions involving light and sound.
Facial Recognition and the Brain
STEM Explained
Learn how your brain recognizes faces and why you sometimes see them in places they don’t exist!
Telescopes and Astronomy
Backgrounders
Visible light is only part of what astronomers study. They use different types of telescopes to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Mahadeo Sukhai
Vice President of Research & International Affairs and Chief Accessibility Officer
Light Pollution
STEM Explained
Light can be a type of pollution. Learn about the damage it causes to people and living things as well as how you can prevent it.
What Causes Hot Things to Glow?
STEM Explained
Getting electrons excited by heat can cause certain materials to give off visible light when heated - like filaments in light bulbs.