CAGIS Vancouver, Canadian Association for Girls In Science

07/30/2026

07/28/2026

Donna Theo Strickland is a Canadian optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

07/25/2026

1.Cut the top of the bottle as per your requirement in order to have space where the balloon can rest.
2.To make the car wheel axles cut the plastic straws in half. 3.Attach these straws at the bottom of the bottle or container
4.Tape each half of the straw crosswise on the bottom, one at the front side and the other at the back
5.Insert the wooden skewers through the straws
6.The axles should extend farther than the border edges of the car
7.Create a hole at the center of the bottle lids which will act as the car wheels. Attach the wheels on to the ends of skewers
8.Make a hole at the backside of the bottle which is the backside of your car - the hole should be such that a straw can pass through
9.Take a straw and attach a balloon to it
Pass the straw attached balloon through the two holes that you created at the backside of the bottle and the one that you created right in the beginning
10.Blow the balloon from the other end of the straw and the balloon-powered car is ready to be raced!!!

07/23/2026

Leah Clark is a Provincial Cattle/Livestock Specialist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, specializing in animal sciences and rangeland resources. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science from the University of Saskatchewan and focuses on agricultural extension, livestock nutrition, and health.

07/20/2026

1. Choose one marker to experiment with first. (Hint~ black and brown are the most exciting!)
2. Take one coffee filter. Put it on a newspaper or some kind of material to protect your table. Draw a thick circle around the center of the coffee filter where the ridged part meets the flat center.
3. Fold the coffee filter in half and then in half again, resulting in a cone shape.
4. Get a short glass of water. Pull apart the cone shaped coffee filter so it balances right on the glass with the tip of the cone just touching the water. (Be sure NOT to let the marker circle go in the water, just the uncolored tip of the coffee filter cone.)
5. Let it sit and watch what happens as the water begins to flow up the paper.

07/19/2026

Jessica Vandenberghe, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) is a member of the Dene Thá First Nation, a sixties scoop survivor and raised in an inclusive German farming family in northern Alberta. Her exceptional career is based on two engineering degrees from the University of Alberta. She has worked in the oil sands, mining, regulatory, infrastructure, consulting industries and academia. She is the Assistant Dean, Community and Culture with the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Victoria and the owner of Guiding Star Consulting.