Science Rendezvous is an annual science festival in Canada; its inaugural event happened across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) on Saturday, May 10th 2008. By 2011 the event had gone national, with participation from research institutes, Universities, science groups and the public from all across Canada - from Vancouver to St. John's. Science Rendezvous is a registered not-for-profit organization dedicated to making great science accessible to the public. The 2013 event is scheduled for Saturday May 11th at more than 40 simultaneous venues.
This free all-day event aims to highlight and promote great science in Canada. The target audience is the general public, parents, children and youth, with an ultimate aim of improving enrollment and investment in sciences and technology in the future.
Read more about Science Rendezvous: Programs, Sites/Groups That Have Participated in Science Rendezvous
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“When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)