Tyler Morhart (video)
Career Profiles
Scientist, Beamline Responsible - SyLMAND
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Tyler Morhart (he/him)
Career Profiles
Scientist, Beamline Responsible - SyLMAND
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Genevieve Ellis (she/her)
Career Profiles
Journey Person Boilermaker & Welding Supervisor
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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.
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Let's Talk Space Exploration Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources to develop background knowledge on the topic of space exploration.
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Monitoring the Ocean with Radar
Backgrounders
Learn about how a special type of radar helps monitor and protect Canada’s oceans.
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Making Waves with Radar
Backgrounders
Learn about how the radar works, the history and its many real life applications.
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Strange Shapes in the Sky: Stealth and Flying Wings
Backgrounders
Learn about how and why engineers designed and built some very unique aircraft.
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Xiaoyi Bao
Professor and Canada Research Chair
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Let's Talk Lunar Resources
Backgrounders
Discover some background information on how we'll learn to live and work on the Moon - and beyond!
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Light and Sound Inventions that Changed the World
Lessons
Students will explore the societal impacts of inventions involving light and sound.
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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!
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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.
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Mahadeo Sukhai
Vice President of Research & International Affairs and Chief Accessibility Officer
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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.