Did you know you can relight a candle using the stream of smoke that’s left after blowing it out?

The smoke contains flammable wax vapour! Bringing a flame to the trail will cause it to ignite, and the flame will travel back down to the wick 🔥

#STEM #ScienceVideos

Have you heard of a Finger Slinger-Flinger? Of course not! It’s a toy that doesn’t exist… yet!

Become a toy engineer and build the Finger Slinger-Flinger with us!

This session is linked to our Toy Engineering STEM Challenge (coming soon).

Register: Clubhouse.GirlsInScience.ca/CAGIS-Virtual

Why did the computer get cold?

It left its Windows open!

Happy #STEMJokeSaturday 😁

Do you know how much DNA is REALLY in your body?

If stretched out, your DNA would reach to the sun and back >20 times!

There are >2 metres of DNA in the nucleus of each cell, all tightly coiled and packed into dense chromosomes 🧬

PMID: 30813969
🎥: dnalc.org

Step into the shoes of a biochemist! In this session, we will experiment with enzymes—amazing molecular helpers that speed up chemical reactions in living things!

Thank you to STEMCELL Technologies for sponsoring this event!

Register at Clubhouse.GirlsInScience.ca/CAGIS-Virtual 🧪

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Did you know the average heart beats ~100,000 times a day? In this session, we will step into the shoes of an Interventional Cardiologist—a special type of heart doctor—and practice doing a life-saving procedure!

Register at Clubhouse.GirlsInScience.ca/CAGIS-Virtual 🫀🥼

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Did you know there were sharks before there were trees?

It's true! Sharks have existed on Earth for over 400 million years, while the earliest known trees didn't appear until tens of millions of years later 🦈🌱

GirlsInScience.ca/Sources

Did you know that medicine goes through a whole journey once it’s inside our bodies?

Discover how medications travel through our system and how they work in this fantastic pharmacological session!

Register at Clubhouse.GirlsInScience.ca/CAGIS-Virtual 🔬

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It looks fluffy, but a typical cloud that you would see on a sunny day actually weighs about 1.1 million pounds! ☁️

That’s as much as 300 adult hippos! 🦛

Source: sciencealert.com/this-is-how-mu…

Congratulations to Aleena (12) and Natalie (16)! They used forensic science techniques to correctly identify a fingerprint in our latest STEM Challenge. They will both receive a $65 prize pack from Ontario Tech University

Watch both winning entries at Clubhouse.GirlsInScience.ca/Forensic-Chall…

Today is Earth Day! This year’s theme is “Planet vs. Plastics”.

Looking for a fun way to cut down on how much plastic you use? Try packing your lunch in a homemade beeswax wrap!

Learn how to make your own at Clubhouse.GirlsInScience.ca/Beeswax-Wrap

#EarthDay2024 🌎