{"id":586,"date":"2025-09-07T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/?p=586"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:58:42","slug":"sfu-stem-speaker-series-and-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/2025\/09\/07\/sfu-stem-speaker-series-and-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"SFU STEM Speaker Series and Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>The SFU STEM Speaker Series provides high school students with the opportunity to learn about STEM topics and careers through the expertise and perspectives of university students, faculty members, and working professionals in STEM fields.\u00a0 All sessions are FREE and offer unique information and experiences in science. These are sessions that can expand your mind and comprehension for how scientific ideas are developed and applied.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>Exploring AI: the Good, the Bad, &amp; Beyond<\/b>\u00a0is a new 7-week workshop series, where youth will get to explore more about artificial intelligence, while also learning more about coding. We recommend having some experience in text-based coding before joining.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\ud83d\udcc5 Dates: Every Saturday between Sept 20 &#8211; Nov 8 (except Oct 11)<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd50 Time: 10-11:30 am<br \/>\n\ud83d\udccd Location: Online over Zoom<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf93 Grade: 8-12<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\u00a0Register at <a id=\"anchor-0eca5c7e-167f-2b93-36fc-55c91c7f031c\" title=\"https:\/\/sciencealive.ca\/exploring-ai\" href=\"https:\/\/sciencealive.ca\/exploring-ai\" data-outlook-id=\"2876fca1-a20f-4ec4-9417-8aae420c5278\">https:\/\/sciencealive.ca\/exploring-ai<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Poster is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/files\/2025\/09\/Exploring-AI-Starts-Sept-20-til-Nov-8.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f<b>STEM Speaker Series<\/b>\u00a0is returning, with a talk by science communicator and PhD candidate, Katherine Rabik. Sign up to learn about her journey from studying the Earth as a geological engineer, to teaching kids in classrooms, to now exploring how best to communicate scientific research.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\ud83d\udcc5\u00a0Date: Saturday, September 20<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd50 Time: 1-2pm PT<br \/>\n\ud83d\udccd Location: Online over Zoom<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf93 Grade: 8-12<\/div>\n<div>\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002\u2002Register at <a id=\"OWA01e31acf-5d05-2fb0-3e9b-1882d1d4aa29\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/sciencealive.ca\/stem-speaker-series\" href=\"https:\/\/sciencealive.ca\/stem-speaker-series\" data-outlook-id=\"c3c0dd0e-1ec5-4fbf-bf69-2c586d3be6ef\">https:\/\/sciencealive.ca\/stem-speaker-series<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Poster is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/files\/2025\/09\/Poster-SSS-September-2025.pdf\">HERE.<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SFU STEM Speaker Series provides high school students with the opportunity to learn about STEM topics and careers through the expertise and perspectives of university students, faculty members, and working professionals in STEM fields.\u00a0 All sessions are FREE and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/2025\/09\/07\/sfu-stem-speaker-series-and-programs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  SFU STEM Speaker Series and Programs<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/central-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}