Women and Girls of Science – 8th edition

Join us for an inspiring talk by Joannie Rochette!

Discover how you can make your dreams come true with a talk by Joannie Rochette, who won bronze in figure skating at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and is now a resident physician specializing in anesthesia.

Joannie will share her journey and incredible transition from being a high-level athlete to a medical school student and share the lessons in courage and determination she learned along the way. She will also talk about the importance of physical and mental health.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear Joannie Rochette tell her story about turning a dream into reality!

Conference, preceded by an engaging and entertaining panel discussion!

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With Édith Lemay, of the Lemay-Pelletier family, whose three children were born with a rare genetic disorder called retinitis pigmentosa that causes progressive vision loss.

Together, the Lemay-Pelletier family chose to face this challenge by transforming it an opportunity to travel the world to imprint the world’s beauty on their visual memories while they still could. During the talk, Édith and her daughter Mia will share stories, photos, and insights about how this experience redefined how they view joy, resilience, and the richness of moments shared. Come discover their inspiring story that helps us see the world in a whole new light, with open hearts and wide-open minds.

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The environment, artificial intelligence, space exploration, video games, robotics, and even bioarcheology! So many women and their allies have chosen to pursue careers in these state-of-the-art domains. Come meet them!

Explore fascinating careers and take part in all kinds of interactive experiences:

• Play a challenging escape game 
• Express yourself using projections 
• Investigate someone’s death from many thousand years ago
• Hold a real brain in your hands
• Explore communication codes used by a military operation
• Explore the universe with all your senses
• Try a virtual reality headset
• Control industrial robots
• …and more!

You can also mix art with tech with the team from Amazon Web Services with surprising activities that include:

• Making a lava lamp
• Making binary code accessories
• Making a harmonica
• The demonstration of Acrylic Robotics, which uses AI and robotics to reproduce artworks with meticulous precision.

L'Oréal Canada, Ubisoft, Agence spatiale canadienne, La Baleine Nomade, VisTaScience, Le Neuro, Polytechnique Montréal, Société des arts technologiques, Génome Québec, Place pour toi - OIQ, Aéro Montréal, AWS, Environnement et changement climatique Canada, École de technologie supérieure (Laboratoire CRITIAS), Archéomusée de Roussillon, MDA Space, Forces armées canadiennes, Observatoire d’oiseaux de McGill,  Groupe d’éducation et d’écosurveillance de l’eau, Faculté des arts et des sciences - Université de Montréal, ABB Canada, Hydro-Québec, Commission canadienne pour l'UNESCO, Ingenium et Pêches et Océans Canada.

Join us for 45-minute hands-on workshops where you can code things, make things, and experiment with all sorts of things!

• Robot Run – Program your very own robot using fun and intuitive software. Exciting challenges await!
• Stones and Arrowheads – Discover and handle reproduced artefacts, explore hunting techniques, and make your own Clovis point arrowhead to bring home!
• Canine Language – Learn to understand and respond to canine behaviour from a real dog that will teach you all about it over a friendly encounter!

Find out about workshop times here.

Demos led by young women studying at UQAM’s Faculty of Science! Enjoy some Science Bites and discover all sorts of different scientific fields in a series of presentations you can gobble up and enjoy!

Other demos include:

• Fishing for zooplankton
• Studying fossils
• Doing origami
• Observing an insert terrarium
• Discovering magnetism

The educators from the Science Centre invite you to discover the physics and chemistry hiding in the kitchen by taking part in a culinary science demo. Join them in the Banquet hall!