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 opportunities for youth to delve into their curiosity and express themselves with their ideas, and projects.

Over the past couple of years i’ve gotten to know someone, that did get involved with all of those initiatives, but took it one step further. He wrote, and published not one, but two books about the universe.

Cosmic Wonder: Our Place in the Epic Story of the Universe

The Language of the Stars: The Scientific Story of a Few Billion Years in a Few Hundred Pages

And the thing is he’s competing all of the competitions, written these books, and he hasn’t even finished high school yet.

Nathan is such a hard worker, but I really believe he is someone that is going to make a difference on this planet. Nathan has had a couple of really solid mentors in his life which is something that if you want to make a difference for some of these amazing youth head on over to our website sciencefair.ca/mentorship, you can sign up to be one, and participate in our monthly open office hours meeting called Science Clu. It’s an online meetup where youth, parents, and teachers come to ask questions and be inspired.

Another way you could have a big impact, is volunteering at local fairs, if you’d like to get in touch with your local regional fair we can also help facilitate that. You can email me munger@sciencefairs.ca

For more information go to sciencefairs.ca. If you have any questions or comments you can email Michael Unger at munger@sciencefairs.ca

Follow us on Instagram, and LinkenIn
@sciencefairs, and @michaeljohnunger.

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 Engineer-In-Training with Tetra Tech Canada Inc., and she shares her insights into what skills she really took away from competing in science fairs, and how they have helped her in career today.

For more information on the Canada Wide Science Fair youthscience.ca

For more information on the support the Science Fair Foundation and BC gives to the regional fairs in the province like the one Meaghan came out of go to sciencefairs.ca

If you have any questions or comments you can email Michael munger@sciencefairs.ca

Follow us on Instagram and LinkenIn

@sciencefairs, @michaeljohnunger

For more information go to sciencefairs.ca. If you have any questions or comments you can email Michael Unger at munger@sciencefairs.ca

Follow us on Instagram, and LinkenIn
@sciencefairs, and @michaeljohnunger.

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 develop apps that help to navigate the struggles which disabled individuals face, what skills they have taken away from YIS, and what is that special something that keeps bringing them back to science fairs.

Watch Jora's innovation pitch video

Watch Inbal's innovation pitch video

Listen to the 2023 Youth Innovation Showcase Winners episode that also featured Jora Singh Nahal

For more information go to sciencefairs.ca. If you have any questions or comments you can email Michael Unger at munger@sciencefairs.ca

Follow us on Instagram, and LinkenIn
@sciencefairs, and @michaeljohnunger.