Thanks to the generous support of the Ministry of Education, all K-7 students in BC can have one free Science World experience, per year, under the newly initiated BC Program for the Awareness and Learning of Science (BC PALS). Location is no limit. Science World's Outreach Programs travel to the far reaches of BC and turn kids on to science with our trademark, playful approach to learning.

Turning kids on to science - province wide

Since September 2005, over 11,000 kids in communities from the Queen Charlotte Islands to Mackenzie have experienced our in-school science "spectaculars". Thousands more have learned about the science that exists in their own backyards through Community Science Celebrations. By spinning plates, creating explosions, blowing bubbles and having fun, BC's kids are seeing the scientific concepts they learn in textbooks come alive - and they are delighting in it!

BC PALS programs are designed to complement BC's science curriculum, and encourage students to take science beyond the classroom and into their own lives. At home, kids can use Science World's award-winning on-line resources with their families. During Family Science Nights, parents learn and play with their children in a fun, community setting.

BC PALS also helps fund Science World's Super Science Club, an after-school program for inner-city schools. Here, enthusiastic students learn about everything from potential energy to ecology through unexpected means - like vegetable car races, building"grass heads" and making ice-cream in lunch bags. Currently, six schools in Vancouver host this program and the demand is growing throughout the province. Okanagan Science Centre has recently initiated its own "Wild on Science" program in Vernon - based on our own Super Science Club!