What is CAGIS?
The Canadian Association for Girls In Science (CAGIS) is an award-winning club for girls aged 7 to 16 that facilitates interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
CAGIS chapter members meet monthly to explore STEM with fun, hands-on activities led by women and men experts in a variety of STEM fields.
These monthly events often occur at the work places of our STEM experts, giving girls a behind-the-scenes view and allowing them to experience the lab and field environment for themselves!
Past events have included:
- Robotics and coding
- Performing orthopaedic surgery on rubber knees
- Building and testing bridges in a wind tunnel
- Sampling plant communities in forests and fields
- The physics of figure skating
- CSI and forensic science
- The physics of art restoration
- Computer science and website development
- Dentistry and searching for cavities
- Mechanics and fixing cars with internal combustion engines
- The chemistry of cooking
- Aviation and building model planes
CAGIS is a volunteer-based not-for-profit organization.