FROM THE COORDINATOR
With our ever-growing team of 26 undergrads, 5 high school students (and one Program Coordinator), we were able to reach more than 30,000 youth all over Southern Saskatchewan in 2019! We have continued building a meaningful relationship with Treaty Education Alliance, including 6 weeks of camp in reserve communities over the summer.
We successfully began offering teacher professional development workshops in partnership with Regina Public Library, including a technology lending program. We launched our first ever All Girls Engineering afterschool club, and have already expanded to two schools! Working with TRiP and Regina Police service, we completed 12 weeks of club programming for at risk youth, and are continuing this program into 2020 with the support of the Faculty of Engineering. The Canadian Foundation of Innovation began working with EYES to lauch a Regina chapter of Science Machines, a series of single day field trips for Girl Guides to gain hands on lab experiences at the University of Regina.
Finally, we exceeded capacity in our summer camp programming and reached a record number of communities through our workshop program. This year cannot be described as anything other than a complete success.
2020
This year, more than $39,000 was gifted to youth all over Southern Saskatchewan who otherwise would be unable to attend the EYES program, and we would be unable to offer these bursaries without our sponsors.
2020 is poised to be our biggest year yet! We are looking forward to continuing our partnership with Regina Police Service and TRiP to being working with vulnerable youth in North Central Regina. Working closely with our sister program Sci-Fi in Saskatoon, we are looking forward to streamlining our workshop programming to reach more youth.
In the upcoming years, we hope to strengthen our partnership with other facilities within the University of Regina, with hopes to further increase the quality of the program by providing students with real lab experiences, and give them a better idea of what the university has to offer. With these exciting new prospects on the horizon, we are looking forward to continuing to work with Regina and surrounding communities to build a better STEM!
Megan Moore
Program Coordinator EYES, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences University of Regina
