SCI AIDE

Always wanted to do a cool community project but didn't know where to start? Start with us! DICEM: Diverse & Inclusive Community EnviroMentors aims to provide aspiring gender-diverse youth mentors of colour (ages 18-29) with the opportunity to learn how to engage their community environment in fulfilling, tangible, and accessible ways. In this program, youth will learn how to become mentors and stewards of their community environment, and will bring their teachings back to their peers. We trust participants to define their own “community environment” and the gaps they wish to address within them. DICEM, as an extension of SCI AIDE, provides youth with the opportunity to connect on their shared interests and to turn that interest into community action. “DICEM” as a Latin word itself means “I am showing / explaining”; we hope that participants can engage in exploring and taking initiative in science communication, cultural connection, and grassroots activism together. So, long story short--you can create a project (can be as simple as a single workshop or as complex as an anthology) that bolsters your environment (personal, social, and/or worldly) for little to no cost to you! If you're interested, find more information and register here: https://forms.gle/bQdUXrFa15LXXF939

Celebrate Ocean Week Canada with SCI AIDE!

We'd love to have you join us for W.A.T.E.R. Rangers--our program that prioritizes Women, Agender, Trans, Enby, & Racialized Rangers!

This Ocean Week, SCI AIDE is hosting several exciting events that prioritize and bring together gender-diverse people of color, especially youth, to explore water science in fun and engaging ways. Our events include a virtual dive into citizen science using an ROV (remote-operated vehicle), an accessible trip to the aquarium, and hands-on workshops focused on water quality and ecosystem health. Make sure to RSVP and learn more about our events here: https://linktr.ee/SCIAIDE

Thank you to Water Rangers for supporting W.A.T.E.R. Rangers! We'll be posting more about their support and organization soon, stay tuned.

Please note that our in-person events will take place in Toronto, Canada, and that our virtual events are open to anyone in the world. We aim to keep our programming as accessible as possible whenever we can, and apologize for any hiccups along the way.

Happy Earth Day and Citizen Science Month! We felt it would be appropriate to make our debut today.

Hello, World! We're SCI AIDE: the Science Communication Initiative for Accessibility, Inclusivity, Diversity, and Engagement. We're super excited to be starting up this new grassroots initiative for and by gender minorities of colour to connect us to science of all kinds.

We're here to host workshops, experiences, and other learning opportunities whenever possible. We're also going to work in a sustainable way--that means not pushing ourselves beyond what we can give, and providing programming in a way that fits our capacities.

If you identify as a gender minority (e.g. woman, femme, non-binary, trans, genderfluid, intersex, or otherwise gender-diverse) of colour, reach out to us! We'd love to see you at our events and to make connections wherever we can. You can read more about us and our values in the slides. Text descriptions of what is posted will be in the alt text of each picture.

We hope to see you around, and thanks again for being here!