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Carillon Hydroelectric Power Station, Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec

Generating Electricity: Hydroelectric Power

STEM Explained

Learn how moving water can be used to generate electricity. This is called hydroelectric power generation.

Close up of the Sun’s surface

Solar Storms: Exploring the Sun's Explosive Outbursts

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Learn about solar storms and how they impact Earth.

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Introduction to Green Chemistry

STEM Explained

Green chemistry is a field that looks at the sustainability of products and processes designed by people.

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Mauro Marongiu

Career Profiles

Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer

I design, install, and calibrate aircraft sensors and data collection systems.
Portrait de Evaline Warmels

Evaline Warmels

Career Profiles

Mechatronic Engineer

I design, build, and test devices that use electricity to do something that a human couldn't do on their own.
Cars driving through thick smog

How Vehicles Pollute the Air

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Learn how vehicles affect air quality, including their contribution to smog.

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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

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Learn about vehicles that use hydrogen for fuel.

Airport terminal with airplane

Up, Up and Away: Careers in Flight

Lessons

Students will learn about the wide variety of jobs related to the aviation industry.

Aircraft wing, pictured from the aircraft in flight

Testing Aircraft Wings

Lessons

Students will explore how wing design affects lift using a testing device similar to a wind tunnel.

Evaline Warmels with lunar rover in background.

Evaline Warmels (Video)

Career Profiles

Mechatronical Engineer

As an electrical engineer at Canadensys, I help build robots (lunar landers) that will explore the surface of the moon.
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Green Energy

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An overview of environmentally-friendly ways to generate electricity and power

C-band radar

Making Waves with Radar

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Learn about how the radar works, the history and its many real life applications.

B-58 Hustler in flight

Testing for Aviation Safety

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Learn about some of the ways that aircraft and spacecraft are tested.

XB-35

Strange Shapes in the Sky: Stealth and Flying Wings

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Learn about how and why engineers designed and built some very unique aircraft.

Otto Lilienthal's flying machine

A History of How Humans Learned to Fly

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Learn how aviation pioneers from the world learned how to make humans fly!