Pranav Menon is the adjunct professor at UBC in Applied Science and Engineering. He is also Program Director at The Knowledge Society (TKS), a 10-month global innovation program for ambitious high school students ages 13-17 which they advertise...

Dr. Will Primrose is the Program Manager for Future Science Leaders at Science World in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Future Science Leaders (FSL) program at Science World is a ...

 Dr. Gerry Poulton is a retired Chemistry professor from the University of Victoria, whose decades of mentorship and leadership have helped shape science fairs in th the Greater Victoria Regional Science Fair. From guiding countless studen...

Here at the Science Fair Foundation we mostly are focussed and supporting a variety of initiatives around science fairs, which is not surprising. You have school fairs, local fairs, regional fairs, and the youth innovation showcase. All amazing...

As Science Fair season starts to wrap up with the culmination of the 2025 Canada Wide Science, Michael Unger chats with an alumni that competed at four straight Canada Wide Science Fairs from 2013-2016. Meaghan MacKenzie is now a Environmental ...

Continuing our celebration of these inspirational young scientists, in this episode our host Michael Unger gets into it with our 2024 YIS winners Jora Singh Nahal & Inbal Tzafrir.Join them as they discuss why they felt compelled to ...

It’s the end of 2024, and for us here at the Foundation, it’s also the end of the Youth Innovation Showcase. So for the next few episodes, we are going to recap an amazing showcase. In this episode i brought in two of the judges from the Youth ...

Marco is an accessibility consultant who has battled through a lot of adversity to get to where he is as now a leading thinker and inspirational speaker in this space. We talked about so many things including imposter syndrome, anxiety, and tec...

In this episode of Let's Innovate, our host Michael Unger dives into the exciting world of artificial intelligence and its role in science fairs. Joining the conversation are Gerry Gourlay, Program & Volunteer Manager at Science Fair Founda...

 In this episode of Let's Innovate, we welcome Asher Trim-Gaskin and Mansita M. Njie from Imhotep's Academy, an organization dedicated to supporting students of African descent in the STEM fields. They share their experiences and strategie...

On this episode of Let's Innovate, we're joined by science coordinators Emily Gubski Greater Regional Vancouver  Science Fair Chair and Aidan Leach Renfrew County Regional Science Fair Coordinator in Ontario to discuss how to...

Join us for a special live on-location episode with our host Michael Unger as he interviews some of the bright young minds at the Yukon-Stikine Regional Science Fair.Check out the 2023 Canada-Wide Science Fair results:

On this special episode of Let's Innovate, our host Michael Unger talks about the Science Fair Foundation BC's goal to transform science fairs to be more accessible and more inclusive for youth.Michael shares some personal stories, dive...

On this special episode of Let's Innovate, Michael sits down with the winners of the 2023 Youth Innovation Showcase, Keanu Chan and Jora Singh Nahal!Keanu Chan's project: https://www.sciencefairs.ca/participate/yis/finalists/keanu-proje...

Today we have have a special episode of Let's Innovate as we have two guests!We're joined by Paul Tiege and Breanna Crompvoets, two judges for this year's Youth Innovation Showcase.You won't want to miss it!

On this episode of Let's Innovate, Ziad Sahid all the way out in Yukon joins the show!Ziad works at Tech Yukon, a non-profit organization in Whitehorse focused on building a local tech sector out in the Yukon.You won't want to m...

On this episode, Michael sits down with the Science Fair Foundation's new Program & Volunteer Manager, Gerry Gourlay!

We're back with another episode of Let's Innovate! Today we're joined by Andrei Marti, a Platinum Award winner at the 2023 Canada-Wide Science Fair in Edmonton.You won't want to miss it!

On the fourth season's opener of the Let's Innovate podcast, we're joined by Leonard Foster!Leonard is the Chief Judge of the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair as well as a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Un...

On this special episode of Let's Innovate! we're please to be joined by both Leah Cross & Peter Scott!Leah is the President and Co-Founder of Build a Biz Kids and Peter is an Elementary School Principal in Grand Forks, BC.Th...

Today on Let's Innovate, we're joined by Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UNBC, and Chair of the organizing committee for the Central Interior Science Exhibition, Dr. Todd Whitecombe.Todd talks to Michael about the science fair ex...

Today on Let's Innovate we're lucky to have on Andrea Chan & Matt Treble from the Vancouver Island Regional Science Fair!The two talk to Michael about their journey from participating in science fairs to becoming volunteers for scie...

Today, we have the Chair & Vice-Chair of the Northern BC Regional Science Fair, Jennie Copeland & Kevin Frankham.They discuss topics such as how they got started, problem solving and even parents and science fairs.

Today, we're joined by science teacher, Katrina Kornylo from Gold River on Vancouver Island!Katrina talks to us about how she got into science fairs, getting students interested in science and even how she became a teacher.You w...

Ryan & Melissa from the Yukon-Stikine Regional Science Fair join us today on Let's Innovate!The two talk to us about the "differences" in science fairs, the projects that make the most impact and Ryan even tells us about how he comb...