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Research and mentorship

Mentorships, team experiments and journals that end in your own project.

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Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP)

National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE)
  • Several months (proposal + ISS mission cycle)
  • High school
  • School-based (must be in a participating school district)
Nov 3, 6 days left
Details

Students on the Beamlines, Canadian Light Source

Canadian Light Source (CLS)
  • A school-year project with beamtime in Saskatoon
  • High school (14+)
  • Your school, plus beamtime at the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon, SK
Free
Nov 15, 18 days left
Details

Non-Trivial Fellowship

Non-Trivial
  • Online cohort program, part-time alongside school
  • Ages 14 to 20, before starting university
  • Online, open worldwide
Jan 4, 68 days left
Details

Polygence Research Program

Polygence
  • 10 weeks (virtual, self-paced with mentor)
  • Grades 9–12
  • Virtual (online, open to Alberta students), with a tuition fee and need-based aid available
Has a fee
Open now, no deadline
Details

The Concord Review

  • Self-paced, with one research essay of 5,000 to 10,000 words or more
  • Grades 9–12
  • Online submission, open to secondary students anywhere
Has a fee
Open now, no deadline
Details

Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI)

Journal of Emerging Investigators
  • Self-paced, and peer review and revision typically take several months
  • Ages 13+, middle and high school
  • Online submission, open internationally
Has a fee
Open now, no deadline
Details

Lumiere Research Scholar Program

Lumiere Education
  • Multi-month cohorts through the year
  • High school
  • Online, one-on-one
Has a fee
Open now, no deadline
Details

STEM Fellowship Journal

STEM Fellowship
  • Submit any time
  • High school and university
  • Online
Has a fee
Open now, no deadline
Details

Inspirit AI Scholars

Inspirit AI
  • 10 live sessions (25 hours) over a term, or a daily winter-break intensive
  • Grade 9-12
  • Online
Has a fee
Open now, no deadline
Details

Math Mentorship Program, University of Toronto

Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
  • January to May, meeting a mentor once or twice a month
  • High school
  • Online meetings, plus two required events at U of T's St. George campus in Toronto
Has a fee
Opens Nov 3, due Dec 1
Details

Cubes in Space

Cubes in Space (idoodlelearning), with NASA
  • Design over the school year, with launches in summer 2027
  • Ages 11–18
  • Online program, and experiments ship to Virginia to fly on NASA missions
Cost varies
Opens Nov 9, due Feb 22
Details

Youreka Canada

  • 10 weeks
  • 9-12
  • Teams run at seven university campuses across Canada, so ask Youreka whether one runs near you
Has a fee
Opens later, date not posted
Details

VJKF Indigenous Science and Engineering Program

Verna J. Kirkness Foundation (multiple Canadian universities)
  • 1 week between May and August
  • 10-12
  • Residential, at participating universities across Canada
Free
Opens later, date not posted
Details

STEM Fellowship Research Exploration Opportunity (REO), University of Calgary

STEM Fellowship
  • A short placement, with dates set by each host university
  • 9-12
  • Calgary (University of Calgary labs), with other hosts in BC and Ontario
Opens later, date not posted
Details

The Junior Academy, New York Academy of Sciences

New York Academy of Sciences
  • 10 weeks (virtual sprints, year-round cohorts)
  • Grades 9–12 (ages 13–17)
  • Virtual (fully online, open to Alberta students)
Free
Opens later, date not posted
Details

Rise for the World

Rise, a program of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust
  • Application project over several months, then lifetime membership if selected
  • Ages 15 to 17 as of July 1 of the cohort year
  • Worldwide, with an online application, and the summit is in person
Opens later, date not posted
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Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory Internship, Western University

Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory (CSSL), Western University
  • About 8 weeks for high school interns (July 6 to August 28 in 2026)
  • Grade 11-12
  • Olds, AB (hail fieldwork) or London, ON
Pays you
Opens later, date not posted
Details

Science Mentorship Institute (sci-MI)

Science Mentorship Institute
  • Summer-long, flexible schedule
  • High school
  • Online
Free
Opens later, date not posted
Details

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Halloween in Alberta

A crowd in evening dress under paper lanterns at a Halloween party in Edmonton in 1906
Edmonton, 1906 A Halloween party at the Prince Arthur Café
Guests in pointed witch hats with skull badges at a Halloween party in Wainwright in the 1920s
Wainwright, 1920s Witch hats and skull badges at a Halloween party
Four children in costumes standing among pine trees in Mountain Park in 1934
Mountain Park, 1934 Beulah Godby and friends in costume, in a coal town that is a ghost town now
A woman dressed as an angel and a man dressed as a devil with a pitchfork, standing in the snow in Claresholm in 1949
Claresholm, 1949 First place costumes at the skating carnival
Children in Halloween masks and a witch hat lined up against a wooden wall around 1950
Little Smoky River, About 1950 Animal masks and a witch hat
A pumpkin carved with a glowing bison head on a porch in Edmonton on Halloween 2024
Edmonton, 2024 A bison carved into a pumpkin on Halloween night Photo by Joli Rumi, CC BY-SA 4.0

From the Provincial Archives of Alberta, and one Edmonton porch. Photo credits